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What They Say The GfU in Germany reported that the German TV market reached almost 5.9 million units in 2021 and that the ASP of sets dropped by 16% to €694 meaning a market value of €4.1 billion, down 7%. Although down on 2020, the market was still up 10% on pre-pandemic sales in 2019. … Read more
What They Say The Elec reports that CSOT has made a special team to try to win OLED business from Apple for its T4 G6 flexible OLED fab. Two phases are live and with the third capacity will be 45,000 substrates per month. The blog said that the firm had supplied OLED panels for Samsung’s … Read more
What They Say Samsung published its fourth quarter and FY 2021 result and saw record sales and profits for the quarter ($63.6 billion/$11.5 billion) and year ($232 billion/$42.8 billion). Samsung Electronics Announces Fourth Quarter and FY 2021 Results Q4 was mainly good for product sales in smartphones, TVs and home appliances. Memory was down, but … Read more
What They Say China Media Group started a new 8K TV channel to broadcast content from the Beijing Winter Olympics. The report said that Monday also saw the launch of a project to set up big screens in public places across the country. So far, four train stations along a high-speed railway linking Beijing and … Read more
What They Say It barely counts as news, but the DSE digital signage event planned, under new ownership, in March to be in Las Vegas, has been postponed to November. What We Think A friend was at the SPIE Photonics West event this week and said that it was extremely quiet – at one session, … Read more
What They Say We featured the Area15 entertainment location in Las Vegas (Defining Times for Immersive Destinations) last year. Invidis has now reported on a deal with the location for Panasonic to supply projectors for the site. What We Think There are some good images on the Invidis site. (BR) The designers clearly don’t know … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. (quite a few this week as we try to clear the backlog from CES!!) VIZIO’s CRO Honored with ITVT Award for Leadership in Interactive and Multiplatform Television Health … Read more
What They Say Sixteen-Nine.net reported that a QSR in Montreal, Canada has developed with Samsung and the Luxembourg tech firm iNUI Studio some touchless kiosks that use infrared touch sensors that can detect gestures around 5cm from the display. The blog’s Dave Haynes pointed out that anything that slows down interactions is difficult in this … Read more
What They Say The 8K Association also looked at the TVs that Hisense showed at CES as well as its new SoC (Hisense Fills In 8K TV SOC Details). The company is not planning to bring its new 85″ 8K display to the US this year. Of interest to us was that Chris Chinnock had … Read more
What They Say FlatPanelsHD has managed to get a chance to have an ‘exclusive’ look at the new Sony QD OLED and miniLED TVs and is impressed with the QD OLED which ‘did not disappoint’. The blog said that in a side-by-side with last years A90j OLED, the A95K is brighter with more saturated colours … Read more
Acer announced four new Chromebooks with the latest technologies, durable designs and a collection of features that optimize them for the education environment. The popularity of Chromebooks continues to grow thanks to the robust features in the Chrome Education Upgrade combined with advances in Chromebook design, features and technology,” said James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, … Read more
What They Say HDTVTest reported that new QLED TVs will be sold in Europe (initially in DACH) under the Nokia name and using QLED technology. The sets are being sold under a licence by Streamview GmbH of Vienna, Austria and are based on the Android operating system. Prices will start at approximately €650 (£543) for … Read more
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