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What They Say Dell’s Alienware brand said that its 34″ QD-OLED monitor would be available in ‘early spring’ and will sell in the US for $1,299. What We Think Wow – that’s a good price for what should be a great monitor for gaming. I said last week that Sony would benefit from the delay … Read more
According to the International Data Corporation ’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, India shipped 161 million smartphones in 2021. This was up by 7% YoY (year-over-year), even as supply and pandemic related challenges created disruptions during the year. 2021 started strong with pent-up demand from 2H20 (Jul- Dec) and positive sentiments around vaccinations but … Read more
What They Say We’ve been following V-Nova and its Codecs for a number of years now. Just a couple of weeks ago, we missed a release from the firm that said that MPEG-5 LCEVC (LCEVC) codec enhancement (ISO/IEC 23094-2) had been selected by the Brazilian SBTVD Forum for adoption in its next generation broadcast television … Read more
What They Say Noctiluca posted a press release (in Polish) highlighting that it has signed a deal with LG Display to collaborate on the development of OLED emitter materials ‘with the intention of using the company’s emitters by the partner in its own products’ (according to Google translate!). Initially, LG Display will perform testing and … Read more
What They Say Samba TV released three reports on the ‘State of Viewership’ in TV in the US, the UK and Germany and in Australia. The reports look at the reach and impressions of different kinds advertising and the impact of streaming on advertising. For example, in the chart below, the firm shows that although … Read more
What They Say XR Today published a ’round table’ of views about the XR industry with representatives of HTC Vive, Varjo, Arthur and Lenovo. Most of it is uncontroversial although Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur, on the topic of 5G, which was seen as very positive by other participants, said: “As of right now, I have … Read more
What They Say Earlier this week, DSCC put out a blog post highlighting the slowing down of TV LCD panel prices as price gets close to cash cost for some panel makers. Inventories are now generally sufficient, which is acting as a damper on price changes. Although the declines are slowing down in Q1, they … Read more
What They Say Hybervsn, which makes virtual displays based on spinning LEDs, has developed a new model that is larger and lighter, with a 0.65mm pitch and is said to produce 3,000 cd/m² of luminance. The system includes a controller that can be addressed by an HDMI interface. The SmartVdisplay has power consumption of <50W … Read more
What They Say The Nanosys Display Show on YouTube, hosted by Brian Berkeley, spoke to Samsung about the QD-OLED technology that Samsung Display, Dell and Sony showed at CES 2022. Chirag Shah of Samsung and Berkeley spoke for just under an hour. Topics covered included: Why blue for the OLED layer and what about lifetime … Read more
In an era when annual product refreshes have become expected, probably one of the hardest things for any tech company to do is generate excitement for its latest round. Inevitably there’s discussion about the more incremental changes that happen from year to year instead of big explosive additions in capabilities, technology, and usability. On many … Read more
Latest research from Omdia has found that Chinese display maker BOE has led the market in shipments of large area thin-film-transistor (TFT) LCD displays in December 2021, both in units and total area shipped. This accounts for nearly one-third of whole unit shipments, as the industry set new records for shipments for the month and … Read more
What They Say Among the items announced by BMW at CES, there was a boost in the number of different interfaces for its BMW My Modes system. There are now five settings, up from the initial three of Sport, Efficient and Personal. There are now Relax and Expressive modes and these have up to 10 … Read more
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