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What They Say IAM had an interesting summary of the issues of the IP licensing for the VVC codec following an announcement by MPEG-LA (MPEG LA Introduces Patent Pool License for Versatile Video Coding (VVC)). The article highlights that this is the second IP pool following announcements by Access Advance last summer (Links Week Ending … Read more
What They Say Karl Guttag has reviewed the Magic Leap presentation presented last week and came to the conclusion that it doesn’t reveal much that couldn’t be discovered with a teardown. However, he also reported rumours that the firm might be setting itself up to be purchased. He looks at the decision to use LCOS … 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. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in Germany Sony reveals more affordable A75K 4K OLED TVs iiyama: Business monitor with USB-C docking station ViewSonic: Color-calibrated 4K IPS monitor … Read more
What They Say NBC will cover the Winter Olympics in UltraHD and with HDR for US viewers. NBC Sports will provide live coverage of the NBC broadcast network’s Olympics primetime and Prime Plus shows in certain markets in UHD/HDR with Atmos audio. NBCUniversal will distribute the 4K HDR coverage to U.S. distribution partners, who will … Read more
SmartKem, Inc., a company seeking to reshape the world of electronics with a revolutionary new organic semiconductor platform that enables a new generation of displays, and Nanosys, Inc., the leader in developing and delivering quantum dot and microLED technology, announced that they have entered into a joint development agreement to work together on a new … Read more
What They Say Sigmaintell released its late January forecast for TV pricing and said that panel prices continue to go down in all sizes for this application, with larger panels going down by larger $ values, but with all the panels changing by 2.3% (32″) to 5.4% (55″). Most TV brands are being conservative in … Read more
What They Say LG Electronics reported its results for 2021 with sales overall of $63.16 billion (+28.7% over 2020) and with operating profit of $3.27 billion. The firm cited OLED TVs and premium home appliances as drivers of growth. The LG Home Entertainment Company reported 2021 revenue growth of 30.6% to $14.56 billion with operating … Read more
What They Say High end monitor maker Eizo Corportation published its quarterly report. The result showed a good result for its fiscal Q3 with sales up 19.1% from ¥53.5 billion ($467 million) to ¥63.7 billion ($556 million) and income of $58.8 million, up to 13.2% from 8.6% a year ago. There was a one off … Read more
What They Say TrendForce put out results and a forecast for the TV market. It said that the higher prices for panels stalled the market and eventually the set market was down globally in 2021 to 210 million, down 3.2%. More stability should be seen this year and the firm expects 3.4% growth to 217 … Read more
What They Say A Chinese news outlet, Sina, quoted by Tom’s Hardware and ComputerBase, reports that BOE has built a prototype/demo 500Hz 27″ FullHD monitor for gaming. The LCD uses an oxide backplane and is reported to have a 1ms response time. No details of the LC mode/mixture were given What We Think Of course, … Read more
What They Say We were digging around about microLEDs when we stumbled on this article from a couple of months ago, that describes how a Korean company, Tetos, is supplying technology to connect together the modules used in Samsung’s microLED TVs along the edges of the modules. 49 modules 12.7″ modules are used in an … Read more
Apple has depended on Samsung for the majority of its OLED panel supply, but its policy is to minimize dependency on any single supplier. To that end it has encouraged LG Display (LGD) to expand its capacity and technology. In 2021, Samsung supplied 67% of the OLED panels, LGD supplied 28% of the panels, while … Read more
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