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Omdia Research Finds US Virtual Pay TV Users Over-Index Substantially in Video Services

New research from Omdia has found that the average virtual pay TV user utilized 13.5 video services per month compared to the average video household* at 7.4 services during 2021. The latest outlook comes from Omdia’s TV & Online Video Intelligence Service, which provides subscription video on demand (SVOD), advertisement-based video (AVOD), and pay TV … Read more

AUO Optimistic about LTPS Automotive Displays

What They Say Digitimes reported on the automotive market for displays and spoke to AUO which said that it is basing a lot of new projects in that sector on LTPS backplanes. The site quoted Sigmaintell Consulting as reporting 19 million LTPS automotive displays were shipped globally in 2021 for an on-year growth of 83.4%. … Read more

Apple’s Getting its Mac Mojo Back

Today, I’m going to get away from the techie details that I love so much and indulge myself by talking about the Apple Mac and the way that Apple seems to have re-discovered its Mac mojo since the launch of its own silicon. Given that Apple has always been about innovation and new ideas, it’s … Read more

DSCC Sees Continued Strong Growth for Foldables

What They Say DSCC updated on its latest Foldable/Rollable Report and highlighted that panel shipments more than tripled to 10 million in 2021, up 207%. Smartphone shipments were 6% better than forecast at 7.98 million, up 254% because of the success of the Galaxy Z Flip 3, especially in Europe, where shipments were up 30% … Read more

Galaxy S22 & S22+ Refresh Rates are Refreshed

The display world is full of specifications that relate to the response time of display devices. However, often it’s too easy to get fixated on one part of what is usually quite a complex system of interaction between, at the extremes, content and the photon or the ‘display pipeline’. Samsung seems to have got embroiled … Read more

Porotech secures $20m Series A investment

Microdisplay technology pioneer Porotech has secured $20 million Series A investment to accelerate global expansion and mass production of its unique micro-LED products. The funding is designed to ensure the company keeps pace with growing demand from its world-leading customers and partners in the $140 billion display market. A multinational electronics giant is among the … Read more

Cambridge-Based Electronics Company Raises Up to $25m Series B Fund to Accelerate Production of Flexible Displays and Active Optics

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialization of flexible organic electronics, has raised $11M Series B financing. Coretronic, a major Taiwanese LCD backlight module manufacturer, has made a strategic investment alongside significant European family offices. The initial $11M investment includes options for a further $14m and is expected to finance FlexEnable through to mass … Read more

Notion Systems Supplies InkJet to ITRI

What They Say Notion Systems of Germany said that it has supplied an inkjet printing system developed in collaboration with MBraun of Germany, to ITRI In Taiwan. ITRI is now using the new n.jet display system to research and develop novel OLED and QLED technologies. ITRI has developed many OLED technologies over the years, and … Read more

The Simula One Headset has Uncommon Features

Offered by SimulaVR, the Simula One is a stand-alone virtual reality headset designed with a focus on work related applications. In company literature, the headset is represented as able to replace a user’s computer and to “serve as an entire workstation on the user’s face.” The headset has several uncommon features. The first of these … Read more

A New Era Beckons for Broadcast with the Approval of DVB Native IP

A whole new world of opportunity has emerged for the broadcast industry with the availability of DVB’s new solution for satellite and terrestrial delivery based natively on IP. The DVB-NIP specification, approved last week by DVB’s Steering Board, bridges the gap between broadband and broadcast networks and paves the way for a truly converged media … Read more