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CEDIA Attendance Clobbered By COVID

What They Say Sixteen-nine.net reported that attendance for the Cedia trade show was ‘utterly clobbered’ by the virus, with attendees down from 20,000 two years ago to 1,400 this year and exhibitors down from 500 to 82. What We Think Ouch. However, I mentioned to somebody at the Peerless AV event in London last week … Read more

Roku Introduces All-New Roku Streaming Stick 4K and Roku Streaming Stick 4K+

Roku, Inc. unveiled the all-new Roku® Streaming Stick® 4K (MSRP $49.99), offering powerful 4K streaming in a portable form factor and the Roku Streaming Stick 4K+ (MSRP $69.99), which features the Roku Voice Remote Pro for users looking to upgrade their streaming experience with a rechargeable, hands-free voice remote. The company also announced Roku OS … Read more

Apple Announces New Products Including the iPhone 13 Series with Higher Refresh Rates, Bigger Batteries, More Storage and Better Cameras

Apple panel procurement

What They Say We reported on the new Apple products last week (Apple Announcements Much as Expected), and now DSCC has reported what it thinks of the changes with more detail. It also looked at Apple’s panel purchasing and surveys the use of LTPO panels in other smartphones. What We Think Although the latest iPhone … Read more

New Roku Streaming Stick 4K supports HDR10+ & Dolby Vision

What They Say Roku has upgraded its streaming sticks with support for HDR10, HDR10 and Dolby Vision as well as a faster CPU and better Wi-Fi. The Roku Streaming Stick 4K and Roku Streaming Stick 4K+ (which is available in the US and includes a remote control with voice control). The 4K costs $50 and … Read more

Ynvisible and PragmatIC Partner to Deliver Flexible Display Modules

Ynvisible Interactive Inc., a fast-growing firm in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, and PragmatIC Semiconductor, a world leader in flexible electronics, have entered into non-binding Technology Partnership and Supply Agreement, for a period of 3 years for services and deliverables of up to 2 Million U.S. dollars, focused on fully integrated flexible display modules. … Read more

ViewSonic Launches New Pantone Validated ColorPro Monitors with 2K and 4K Resolutions

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, announces that it has started shipping the new 27-inch VP2756-2K and VP2756-4K ColorPro monitors. The latest additions to the company’s award-winning ColorPro™ monitor series, the VP2756-2K and VP2756-4K monitors are Pantone Validated and feature native QHD (2560×1440) and Ultra HD (3840×2160) resolutions, respectively, and are engineered … Read more

DisplayPort 2.0 will be Great for 8K, But When is it Coming?

What They Say The 8K Association’s Chris Chinnock published a look at the development of DisplayPort 2.0 which potentially is fast enough for up to 8K/120p, 16-bit, 4:4:4 transfers. The Association, quoting Craig Wiley of VESA and Parade Technologies, said that the original expectation was to have products in the market by the end of … Read more

Links Week Commencing 20th September 2021

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. Luxexcel and Optiswiss announce cooperation for 3D printed smart eyewear New information about the ViewSonic XG321UG with mini LED backlight Barco celebrates 100,000 digital cinema projectors production milestone … Read more

The Future of QD display – Phosphors & Quantum Dots Industry Forum 2021

Quantum Dot display technology is continuously evolving with new materials, new processes and new devices while progressing towards becoming the ultimate next generation self emissive display solution. The recent virtual “Phosphors and Quantum Dots Industry Forum” from September 14-15 gave a glimpse of the future of this display technology. Reinventing the Display Industry Quantum Dot … Read more

Researchers Developing Advanced Electrodes to Improve OLED Performance

A team of researchers headed by Xue-Mei Wen of Jilin University (Changchun, China) is developing means to improve the brightness of OLED devices based on using corrugated electrodes made of a metal alloy. First, a few words of background information. It is possible to achieve nearly 100% internal quantum efficiency in phosphorescent OLEDs. Unfortunately, a … Read more