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Media Distillery and Nielsen’s Gracenote Join Forces to Optimize Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) Utility

November 16, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Media Distillery, a leading provider of AI technology enabling visibility into what’s inside video content, and Gracenote, the content solutions pillar of Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN), have integrated their respective technologies and datasets to create a powerful solution to optimise Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) utility. Available now, this easy-to-implement offering helps pay-TV operators including cable, satellite, … Read more

MiniLEDs Create Opportunity for OLED IT Panel Makers

November 16, 2021 by Barry Young

As LCD makers looked to differentiate their product by offering LCDs with miniLED backlights with greater contrast ratio and higher luminance, they, in effect, opened more of the 270m unit notebook market to OLEDs, which in the past have been limited to 50% of 1.35 billion smartphones and 8 million of the 20 million TV … Read more

Parks: U.S. Consumer Adoption of Smart TVs Reached 56% in 2021

November 16, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Parks Associates reported that SmartTV penetration has now reached 56% of US broadband homes. Smartspeakers and smartdisplays reached 53%. 82% of domestic broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service, up 6%, while 58% of households subscribe to a traditional pay-TV service, down 4% year-over-year. Parks said the percentage of … Read more

US TV Price Inflation Easing as Panel Prices Flow Through to Retail

November 16, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC has been tracking the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI). Over many years, the index data for the TV set segment was much lower than the overall consumer price index. This changed over the last year as LCD prices rose and set makers passed some of that … Read more

Has Google Dropped the Pixel Fold?

December 21, 2022November 16, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week, we reported an article from 9to5Mac that suggested that Google would ship the Pixel Fold to market next year (Google could release its first foldable Pixel in 2022). However, this week DSCC said that its supply chain sources have reported that the handset has been shelved. Challenges that DSCC sees … Read more

DSCC Forecasts $1B in Revenues for MicroLED Displays in New Report

November 16, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

The market for MicroLED displays will quickly grow to surpass $1B in revenues in the next five years, according to DSCC’s new MicroLED Display Technology and Market Outlook Report. While MicroLED will generally remain a niche display technology in consumer electronics, it will be adopted in three major applications: TV, Wearables and AR/VR. MicroLED displays … Read more

India Smartwatch Brands see Amazing Shipment Growth in 3Q21

November 16, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research said that smartwatch sales in Q3 2021 were up by 159% sequentially and an amazing 293% year on year with local brands taking 75% of the market, up from 38%. The local brands introduced lower priced models, so the ASP declined. Commenting on pricing, Research Associate Harshit Rastogi said, “We … Read more

GDS Outdoor Displays Now Available with BrightSign Media Players On-Board

November 15, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

BrightSign, the global market leader in digital signage media players, announced that Global Display Solutions (GDS) now offers its full range of outdoor displays with BrightSign media players on-board. GDS, a global manufacturer of highly rugged indoor and outdoor LCD displays, now offers BrightSign media players pre-installed on its entire line of Midas outdoor displays … Read more

Samsung’s QD-OLED TV might be here very soon

November 15, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say C|NET published an article that covered the Samsung plans for QD-OLED panels to be used in TVs. The article covers the basics of ‘what is a QD-OLED’ but doesn’t add much new if you have been following our coverage for the last several year. What We Think I had hoped that this … Read more

Links Week Commencing 15th November 2021

November 15, 2021 by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. One UI 4 Update Delivers an Elevated Mobile Experience Centered Around You LG 27GP700: gaming monitor with 240 Hz and 1 ms G2G Amazon releases Prime Video app … Read more

Some Electronics Repairs Are Illegal: Federal Law Could Change That

November 15, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientific American has set out, in an article by the CEO of iFixit, some of the barriers to repairs that US law has put in the way of enabling repairs to devices. The point of contention is a section of US copyright law, Section 1201 which makes it illegal to develop technology … Read more

India’s Smartphone Market to Exit 2021 with a Low Single-digit Annual Growth, says IDC

November 15, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say IDC forecast that after dropping 12% year on year in Q3 2021 to 48 million units, the market for smartphones in India will be below 160 million in 2021. The firm is forecasting challenging conditions for 2022. The country was the third largest 5G smartphone market with 7% of worldwide 5G shipments … Read more