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What They Say The GfU in Germany published its overall Hemix Home Electronics Market Index for Q3 and said that it was up 6.9% on 2020. The cumulative value of the market was €33.4 billion for the year to the end of September. CE followed the trend and was up 5.8% (YTD) while ‘private IT’ … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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