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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
What They Say Samsung announced new image sensors, a 200 megapixel sensor (HP1) with 0.64?m pixels and a ‘Dual Pixel Pro’ device (GN5) with two photodiodes in a single 1.0?m pixel. The higher resolution HP1 has a technology that combines up to 16 pixels to a single one that allows a 12.5 megapixel resolution for … Read more
Kramer has unveiled the VP-427X2, a 4K receiver /scaler tool that features dual HDBaseT inputs and a local HDMI to facilitate multiple device connectivity for automatic signal switching in meeting and conference spaces. The VP-427X2 ensures superb 4K picture quality is delivered through up, down and cross-scaling to the display’s native resolution, or any resolution … Read more
Large panel capacity is up 5.7% Y/Y, due to the growth in China, offset somewhat by Samsung’s partial exit from LCD production. Samsung’s large area display capacity share has dropped from 11% in Q120 to 0.6% in Q221. A major part of the change was Samsung sale of a majority interest in their Gen 8.5 … Read more
PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted highlights from their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 25 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading U.S. projector dealers, retailers, web resellers, and distributors. Their Tracking Service … Read more
According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), EMEA shipments of traditional PCs (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) will reach 95.8 million in 2021, a 13.2% YoY growth. This includes 24.1 million PC shipments (+11.4% YoY) in 2021Q3. This can be attributed to ongoing demand in both the consumer and commercial markets, and the fulfillment of … Read more
What They Say Digitimes reported that BenQ Materials has started shipping polarisers for flexible OLEDs in smartphones and is hoping to have them used for OLED TV panels. The blog also said that the drop in demand for LCDs has meant an easing of supply chain issues for polarisers. Overall, the firm expects the market … Read more
What They Say Toms Hardware reported some work done by an insurer, Allstate Protection Plans, that has tested a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and found that is ‘one of the toughest’ phones “The Galaxy Z Fold3 is one of the toughest, most durable phones we’ve ever tested, and its interior screen is the first … Read more
What They Say The Nikkei reports that Apple has paused production of the upcoming Apple Watch 7 (probable name) because of difficulties in assembly. The design is said to be more complex than previous versions. The problem has been made worse by Covid-related difficulties which has made it trickier for Apple and its suppliers to … Read more
What They Say The University of Michigan reported work to develop a new OLED electrode structure, based on a 5 nanometer layer of silver on top of a copper seed layer that is reported to allow 20% more light to be emitted from the display by minimising light-guiding. The group said that the material can … Read more
Electronic displays are fundamentally devices for converting electrons to photons. The more efficient you can make them in this conversion process, the brighter they are for the same power or the lower power they use for a particular brightness. There are two key numbers when checking the efficiency of a device, the IQE and the … Read more
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