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What They Say We reported on the big win by Clear Channel of advertising almost a year ago. (JCDecaux Loses New York Airport Contract) The firm gave details of its activities at the New York airports to Passenger Terminal World magazine. It also covers the UK’s Manchester Airport and work with the Rockbot Airport TV … Read more
What They Say In it’s regular mail-out, Counterpoint Research published a chart and some detailed data on the development of the global market for smartphones. The result highlights the way that they top five brands have increased their dominance over the last three years. The charts below show the impact of Xiaomi, but also highlight … Read more
MicroLED displays are the new technology on the block. And with a new technology, all of the previous givens are being re-examined, including whether the display will be driven with a TFT backplane or with some sort of distributed silicon solution. The aim of this short article is to talk about my overall thoughts on … Read more
What They Say GizChina reported a Weibo post from Xiaomi that claimed that the firm has sold more than 10,000 OLED TVs within 15 days of the product launch, claiming ‘a new industry record’. (Xiaomi Launching OLED TVs with Nvidia G-Sync Support) The firm said that it believes it has about 50% of the OLED … Read more
What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reported that Apple’s anticipated augmented reality headset will rely on connecting to an iPhone (or other device) to work, rather than being a stand-alone device. The article quoted Bloomberg as saying last year that there had been a battle within Apple on this topic. The chip for the … Read more
What They Say Protocol newsletter reported that Facebook has acquired the patent portfolio from the failed Daqri venture. (Behind the Daqri Failure) The rights were initially sold to RPX Corp which sold them on to Facebook. The article reports that Daqri sold ‘over 700 units’ of its headset. What We Think Protocol thinks that the … Read more
The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries, announced a major update to its MIPI D-PHY specification for connecting megapixel cameras and high-resolution displays to application processors. Version 3.0 doubles the data rate of D-PHY’s standard channel to 9 Gigabits per second (Gbps), while extending the power efficiency … Read more
What They Say Reuters reported that the Vietnam government has licensed LG Display to invest $1/4 billion in the city of Hai Phong for OLED module assembly. The report said that 10,000 new jobs would be created with export revenue of $6.5 billion. Capacity is reported to be expanding from 9.6 to 10.1 million units … Read more
What They Say Somehow I missed last week that in its set of product releases, it included the ZenScreen MQ13AH which uses a 13.3″ FullHD OLED to create a 500g and 5mm thick USB monitor designed for acting as a second screen for notebooks. There is also a 15.6″ version, the MQ16AH. 10 bit colour … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has added a new 600 performance level to its DisplayHDR True Black high dynamic range (HDR) specification and standard. Based on VESA’s widely adopted High-Performance Monitor and Display Compliance Test Specification (DisplayHDR), the DisplayHDR True Black standard is optimized for emissive display technologies, such as organic … Read more
What They Say VESA has announced a new True Black 600 level to its DisplayHDR certification, raising the brightness level to 600 cd/m² from the previous 400 and 500 levels. There are three products that have met the specification so far. the ASUS Vivobook Pro 14, Vivobook Pro 14X and Vivobook 15 laptops VESA said … Read more
What They Say The GfU pointed out that it is 20 years since LCDs were first introduced in Germany as TVs, starting with sales of 8,000 12″ units (priced at DM4,500/€2,300). Since then, the market has seen sales of 100 million units. OLED TVs, in contrast, have sold 2.5 million units to the end of … Read more
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