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What They Say Preliminary data from the European Audiovisual Observatory estimates that the cinema attendance in the European Union and the UK increased to 383.2 million tickets sold in 2021. This is 83.8 million admissions more than in 2020, representing a year-on-year growth of 28%. The rebound was less pronounced in the European Union only … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. LG 2022 TV line-up How to Shut Off Motion Smoothing — and Why You Should Xiaomi just launched a gaming-focused flagship with Mercedes F1 Elliptic Labs’ AI … Read more
As demand for home entertainment continues to surge, Epson today introduced its most advanced home theater projector to date – the Epson Pro Cinema LS12000 4K PRO-UHD®1 Laser Projector. The Pro Cinema LS12000 redefines 4K theater-quality expectations for home theater viewing, faithfully reproducing all source material the way the artist intended. Incorporating an all-new Laser … Read more
Barco is expanding its portfolio with two new G-series projectors to enable improved creativity from simple day-to-day needs to more advanced installations. The G62s are a new choice for consistency enabling a broad Barco portfolio for the ProAV market with solutions for every budget. Improved and extended projection platform With the introduction of the G60s … Read more
What They Say Epson announced a new Pro Cinema LS12000 UltraHD 3LCD projector using dual axis shifters and a 1080p panel to create the full resolution. The Laser Phosphor engine is rated to help the unit output 2,700 Ansi Lumens and 20K hour lifetime. Projector Central got some more details on the unit. The LS12000 … Read more
What They Say Acer put out its monthly result for January which was the highest January for eight years at 7.1% beyond last year at $902 million. It was down 14.8% from in line with seasonality. The firm said that logistic issues are a bottleneck, although semiconductor shortages are easing. Gaming line: revenues grew 28.7% … Read more
What They Say Business Korea quoted data, attributed to Omdia, that suggested that the value of the QD-LCD TV market segment will drop by around 3.1% to $17.674 billion this year, the first time that the category will have declined. It said that Omdia predicted that the proportion of OLED TVs in the high-priced TV … Read more
Interactive Scape and DISPLAX announce cooperation to pioneer European solutions for large-scale multitouch screens and surfaces. The collaboration will advance the exciting combination of Touch Displays and Object Recognition, creating unique experiences for areas such as retail, museums, exhibitions, and many others. Hauke Helmer, CEO and founder of Interactive Scape, says: “We are thrilled that … Read more
The oxide semiconductor has always to my mind been the interesting middle ground in the display industry. But to date, it has been mastered by relatively few players Sharp and LGD come to mind) as the physics of the device are distinctly different to amorphous silicon (a-Si). (For those that are new to this subject, … Read more
LG Electronics (LG) is upgrading the home cinema experience with CineBeam 4K laser projector models HU715Q and HU710P, the company’s advanced projectors to date. The new LG HU715Q Ultra Short Throw (UST) features sophisticated technologies such as auto brightness and the ability to create a 100-inch image¹ when placed only 21.7 centimeters from the wall, … Read more
What They Say AMD has completed its purchase of Xilinx after more than a year of processing. Some reports put the deal value at $50 billion as the deal was made based on AMD stock when the price was much lower. (AMD acquiring Xilinx in $35B semiconductor mega-deal). However, others, including Forbes, rated it at … Read more
What They Say In its latest Capex report, DSCC highlighted that there are now 11 different 15K G8.5/G8.6 IT OLED lines under development and spending for fabs for IT applications will lead OLED spending in 2024 and 2025 as both BOE and Visionox have switched their next smartphone fabs to these cost optimized IT RGB … Read more
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