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What They Say DSCC put out its latest weekly data release that covered investment plans, boosted by LCD projects at BOE, HKC and CSOT. It also confirmed its view and forecast that LCD panel prices have peaked. The article included a chart that I always find useful, the price per m² for different sized panels. … Read more
Of those things that are accepted wisdoms in the display industry, one of them is that a-Si (the standard backplane for 75% of the display industry) is simply not stable enough to drive AMOLED displays. AUO tried back in 2003 and came up with an RGB demo but ultimately failed. Since, more complex and costly … Read more
What They Say Vincent Teoh of HDTV Test has reviewed the LG miniLED QNED99 8K TV set which has 1800 dimming zones (60 x 30). He found that despite the number of dimming zones, there are still artefacts from the backlight dimming algorithm. Colour accuracy was fairly good with a deltaE value of 1.89. 3:2 … Read more
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Xiaomi topped all vendors with 25% market share as European smartphone shipments posted strong growth +14% YoY to 50 million units. The smartphone market rebound was driven by the continued economic recovery, a healthy demand from consumers with aging devices and appealing value priced 5G devices. Boris … Read more
What They Say Tencent of China said that its transcoding and media processing apps can support the H266/VVC codec which is expected to reduce file sizes by a further 50% compared to H.265/HEVC. The firm said that it had been an active participant in the setting of H.266/VVC standard, with over 100 technical proposals adopted … Read more
What They Say We don’t cover semiconductors in any real sense, but a few stories caught my eye over recent weeks and suggest a shift in the ‘tectonic plates’ of the industry. AMD had another strong quarter under the leadership of Lisa Su since 2014 with revenues of $3.85 billion and operating income of $924 … Read more
There are times when I think I know a bit about colour, but then bits of information and knowledge come up that make me realise things are a bit complex than I might think. Here are a couple of those items. First there is the issue of ‘how nits/candelas work’. We use candelas to measure … 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. Panasonic’s first OLED TVs with HDMI 2.1 are now available Aldi testing stretch displays in Sydney, Australia (there is a video on the Invidis site but we couldn’t … Read more
Grass Valley reinforces its deep commitment to providing the media industry with tools for creating the highest quality content by releasing three new SDI/IP production solutions for cameras, switchers, and replay. These top-of-the-line tools not only provide the best images available, they also reduce complexity with a common workflow regardless of the format(s), simple set … Read more
Brainport Eindhoven – Market leader Prowise offers its interactive whiteboard users the space to unleash their creativity after installing the update of the integrated writing and annotation package ProNote. Now, the interactive whiteboards enable multiple teachers and pupils to write, erase and use educational whiteboard tools simultaneously. Prowise gives teachers and pupils the freedom while … Read more
The second quarter of 2021 (2Q21) was another strong quarter for both Chromebooks and tablets with both device categories recording growth despite a challenging year-over-year comparison. According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, Chromebook shipments grew 68.6% year over year with volumes reaching 12.3 million units. … Read more
What They Say ICD said that it has a special report that highlights “vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both”. The report covers: RealWear – the spin-out from Kopin that is making safety-focussed headsets ThirdEye – that we last met with … Read more
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