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Acer Still Enjoying Covid Boost

What They Say Acer seems to be continuing to surf the wave that was generated by Covid in its key areas and said that its revenues in February were up 12.7% on last year at $808 million and with the result for the first two months up by 9.7% YoY at $1.697 billion. Business highlights … Read more

Samsung TV Plus, Tennis Channel team for first FAST tennis offer

What They Say Next TV reports that the Tennis Channel’s T2 content will be available on the Samsung TV Plus advertising supported service in the US. T2 is youth-targeted and will include matches from the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours as well as select matches from the French Open and International Tennis Federation events. … Read more

Roku CEO predicts LG, Samsung and Vizio will Give Up their Own TV OSes

What They Say Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, that smartTV makers will ‘eventually’ give up and license operating systems from Roku, Amazon or Google. He sees an analogy with the smartphone market which has converged on two key ecosystems. “We still have a lot of people using Samsung, … Read more

Baanto Announces 27″ Night Vision Imaging System (NVIS) Compliant ShadowSense Touchscreen Samples for High-Performance Military Applications

Baanto is pleased to announce that they are now shipping demonstrator samples of a 27-inch ShadowSense touchscreen that complies with MIL-STD-3009 NVIS requirements. Night Vision Imagining Systems are invaluable in a broad range of military applications to ensure that operators can execute missions regardless of ambient light levels. However, traditional touchscreen technologies have been unable … Read more

Dispelix and AAC Announce Strategic Partnership

Dispelix, the leader in see-through waveguide displays for AR & MR wearables, and AAC Technologies Holdings Inc., the world-leading solutions provider for smart devices, announce a strategic partnership to ensure the AR & MR wearables industry has access to the highest quality see-through waveguide displays in the world. With the announcement, AAC becomes one of … Read more

Seeing is believing: Everything you need to know about 8K in live broadcasting and professional displays

The 8K Association, perhaps with a nod to the close timing of the annual US ‘state of the nation’ address, held a webinar to talk about 8K developments and technology. It was called ‘Seeing is believing: Everything you need to know about 8K in live broadcasting and professional displays’ – they didn’t add the “(but … Read more

LG Display Developing two OLED panels for Apple’s future iPads

What They Say The Elec has continued to drip feed information (well, rumours, really!) about the expected switch by Apple to OLEDs for its iPads. As we reported last week, Samsung has started developing tandem structures for OLEDs for this application. (Samsung Display Begins Two-stack Tandem OLED development to win iPad order) The Elec has … Read more

2021 OLED Shipments Rise 25% Y/Y

What They Say DSCC said that 242 million OLEDs were shipped in Q4 2021, up 11% on Q3, bringing shipments for the year to 831 million, up 25%. Smartphones dominated with 638 million, up 27%, with Apple the top buyer with 29% share, compared to Samsung’s 22%. In Q1 2022, smartphones are expected to take … Read more

OLED Switch Can Burn in – after 3K6 hours!

What They Say Hat-tip to OLED Info for spotting that YouTuber Ben Wulff has managed to cause ‘subtle’ burn-in on his Nintendo Switch OLED display. However, it has taken 6 months continuous display of a static image and that means around 3,600 hours. He points out that there is an ‘invert image’ function which could … Read more