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What They Say Omdia reported its Q4 2021 figures for the semiconductor business showing that Intel just, barely, squeezed past Samsung Electronics for the year as a whole although Samsung was in top spot in Q4 with $19.995 billion compared to 19.976 billion (which is probably within the ‘margin of error’. While Intel was almost … Read more
The global PC monitor market continued its quarterly decline in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) with unit shipments shrinking 5.2% compared to the same quarter in 2020. Despite a challenging second half of the year, the market still exceeded expectations and ended 2021 with a 5.0% year-over-year growth rate, according to the International Data … Read more
What They Say Hat tip to Dave Haynes at sixteen-nine.net for spotting a release from Futuresource that reported that while projection grew by 0.2% year on year in 2021, flat panel commercial displays grew 20.1%. The analyst said that Projector sales are still 30% lower than before the pandemic and mainstream B2B and short throw … Read more
MPEG LA announced that enforcement actions have been brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Samsung Electronics GmbHfor infringement of patents in MPEG LA’s HEVC Patent Portfolio License. The patents are essential to the HEVC (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) digital video coding standard used in products that encode and decode video for … Read more
Satellite broadcaster, Eutelsat gave an update on the development of 4K and its impact on content creation and consumption in a webinar that you can view here. The panellists were: Andrea Michelozzi of Communicare Digitale Nelka Pavlouska of Museum TV/MyZen TV Ben Schwarz of the UltraHD Forum Luca de Bartolo of Tivu Srl Paul Gray … Read more
What They Say Quoting ‘leaker’ sources and an unidentified ‘third form factor’ (on top of the B4 for the ZFold4 and Q4 for the ZFlip4, there’s an N4), Toms Hardware has speculated that Samsung might be preparing a scrollable handset. What We Think I do like the idea of a scrollable handset, but clearly it’s … Read more
What They Say What HiFI published an article on the differences between VA and IPS LCD panels, used in TVs. What We Think The article is not the worst summary that I have ever seen and broadly gets the key differences right so it might be useful to readers that are new to LCDs or … Read more
What They Say Apple is reported to be working on a 15″ version of the MacBook Air to complement the 13″ version according to information released by DSCC to Macrumors and 9to5Mac. The Verge also reported that Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said that mass production would start in the fourth quarter of 2023. He … Read more
What They Say Apple is widely reported to be considering subscriptions for the firm’s hardware. The plan would allow consumers to swap out their devices, possibly annually. It would not simply a pay over 12 or 24 months, but a continuous charge. The hardware charge could be bundled in with software services and could cover … Read more
What They Say Eutelsat said during a Webinar on UHD and its prospects that the technology had not been as successful as hoped, with only 34 out of 7,000 channels in UHD. On the firm’s satellite at the ‘Hot Bird’ position, 425 were still in SD, 457 were in HD and 14 (2%) were in … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. AOC: 23.8″ WQHD 165Hz 1ms G2G monitor AOC: Gaming display with FreeSync Premium and 240 Hz ISE premiere for Hisense Hisense releases AntikTV app Sky Deutschland adds Ultra … Read more
Samsung Electronics announced its latest Smart Monitor series, the M8, featuring an upgraded, stylish design. The versatile new M8 delivers Samsung’s iconic slim design in four new colors — Warm White, Sunset Pink, Daylight Blue and Spring Green — available in 32-inches with UHD resolution and a SlimFit Cam. First launched in November 2020, Samsung’s … Read more
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