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DSCC Report Reveals Advanced Tablet Market Rose 99% in 2021 & Apple Dominates

What They Say DSCC published some data on its blog that looked at displays for ‘advanced’ displays as part of its Advanced IT Display report. The firm said that the Apple 12.9″ iPad Pro has done particularly well with panel shipments of 1.9 million units in Q4 2021, up 90% QoQ and bringing the advanced … Read more

DSCC’s Display Capacity Outlook Falls Slightly on Cancellations/Delays/ Downsizing

DSCC Capacity by application

What They Say DSCC’s blog update pointed out a change in its capacity outlook with a switch to a reduction in the outlook after six quarters of increasing capacity forecasts after delays and cancellations based on worsening market conditions for panel revenues. The capacity is now expected to rise by 4.8 CAGR from 2021 to … Read more

MPA Reports on Media & Entertainment Market

What They Say The Motion Picture Association of America published a report about the market in 2021. The combined global theatrical and home/mobile entertainment market reached $99.7 billion, a growth of 24% since 2020, but more importantly, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 value. Add in pay TV, and the combined global theatrical and home entertainment market … Read more

Breda University of Applied Sciences Launches Its Brand New XR Stage

Breda University of Applied Sciences will host the 2022 edition of the Virtual Productions Gathering. This conference highlights the use of games technology for film production, and some world-renowned speakers will share their knowledge and experience. ROE Visual will show the qualities of LED in virtual production. Following its first edition in 2021, Breda University … Read more

For Streaming Media, Everything Old Is New Again

A story published March 9 at Forbes illustrates how the video streaming landscape continues to shift dramatically. What started out largely as a science experiment 18 years ago with YouTube has now become the dominant platform for the distribution and consumption of movies and television shows in the US. It’s upended the cable TV industry, … Read more

Q4’21 Maintains Torrid — Albeit Unsustainable — Workstation Market Growth

As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for Q4’21. There will be a quarter that ends the workstation market’s historically high growth, but the fourth quarter of 2021 wasn’t it. Yet again, quarterly growth far outpaced levels any would justifiably … Read more

Samsung Negotiations Continue over QD-OLED

What They Say The Korea Bizwire said that arguments about pricing are continuing to delay the introduction by Samsung Electronics of TVs based on Samsung Display’s QD-OLED technology. The site said that the VD division of Samsung that makes TVs wants pricing the same as WOLEDs from LG Display. SDC is said to be rejecting … Read more

Metamerism and New Display Technologies

What They Say The SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal published an article that looked at the challenges of metamerism in different emerging display technologies and ways of compensating for this. (Does WCG Make More People Colour Blind? for an article we have published on this kind of topic. What We Think I am hoping to follow … Read more

Samsung QD-OLED Soon?

What They Say Eagle-eyed observers spotted an advert for two Samsung QD-OLED TVs from Value Electronics in the US. The advert was still online when we looked. There are two model numbers, the QN65QS95B and QN55QS95B and features listed include four HDMI 2.1 inputs and a Next Gen ATSC 3.0 OTA tuner. What We Think … Read more