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Macroblock is always an interesting company to engage with as the firm has a dominant position in the supply of driver chips for LED direct view displays around the world. It also supplies drivers for miniLED backlights. The company held an event online this week and we logged in to see what was new. The … Read more
What They Say Invidis reported that Samsung’s new kiosk solution, which we saw at the Peerless event in London, is being supported by a French software provider, Intuiface. The firm is enabling fully functional payment modules for the German market. There is a demonstration video here. Invidis points out that the kiosk market is dominated … Read more
Samsung Electronics announced the release of its new Galaxy Tab A8, the most streamlined and powerful Tab A Series device yet. The Galaxy Tab A8 packs impressive screen, power and performance into a slim and lightweight design that’s ready for learning, entertaining, connecting and more. It’s a captivating portable experience that matches users’ everyday lifestyles … Read more
What They Say Universal Electronics (UEI), the remote control specialist, said that it has won a dispute with Roku over a patent issue. The decision was given by the US ITC and applies also to TCL, Funai and Hisense, who use the Roku OS. The ITC issued an order to prevent importation of affected products … Read more
Kaltura, the Video Experience Cloud, announced that it has been selected to deliver an end-to-end multiscreen streaming service platform for thematic channel producer Dreamia. Next-generation kids’ OTT service Panda+ went live this week and is powered by a complete, all-in Kaltura solution comprising the Kaltura TV Platform, complemented by front end and UI provided by … Read more
Tianma Micro-electronics and Universal Display Corporation (UDC) entered into long-term, multi-year OLED patent license and material purchase agreements in 2016. The extension of these agreements ensures the continued collaboration and fruitful partnership between two leading companies in the OLED ecosystem. Tianma is currently expanding its Gen 6 OLED facility in Wuhan and readying its new … Read more
What They Say TFTCentral published a story about a Chinese monitor that claimed to have HDMI 2.1 ports, although the interfaces seemed to be HDMI2.0. The story was picked up by Toms Hardware and others. What We Think This is just a kind of “reductio ad absurdum” development of the policy of HDMI naming. I … Read more
What They Say American Airlines is to use UltraHD Optiq in-flight-entertainment (IFE) displays from Thales that are based on Samsung QLED LCD technology in five new aircraft. The displays have support for dynamic HDR as well as being 30% lighter and more reliable than previous versions. Premium Class seats will enjoy 17″ displays accompanied with … Read more
What They Say Sigmaintell Research sent us its data on panel price changes in November and its December forecast. The firm expects all ‘large area’ LCD applications – TV, monitors and TN notebook panels to continue to decline in price as shown in the table. The firm said that brands are being very conservative in … Read more
The world moves faster than I write, so good stories pile up. Here are three OLED stories that have been sitting in the “Forthcoming DD” folder that sits in the upper left hand corner of my monitor. Story #1 At the online OLEDs World Summit this fall, Kyulux CEO Nobuyuki Nakano said his company’s green … Read more
What They Say Vizio is in trouble with the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) over a decision not to release its Linux software. The firm uses Linux open-source software which is released under the GPL Version 2 and Lesser GPL (LGPL). The SFC said that Vizio has been taking legal action to try to stop access … 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. It’s Awkward Being a Woman in the Metaverse SoftBank codevelops battery with twice the capacity of lithium-ion (but currently only recharges 10 times and commercialisation is 5-10 years) … Read more
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