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AUO Reports & LGD Update

What They Say AUO has reported its Q2 result with revenues of $3.44 billion, up 15.3% from Q1 and net profit was $691 million (operating profit of $726 million). Gross margin was 28.7% and operating margin was 21.2%. The firm said that area shipments were 6.4 million m², up just 0.2% YoY and 0.8% from … Read more

Samsung and Apple Thriving

What They Say Key device makers, Samsung and Apple reported their results. Sales for Samsung were $55.55 billion in Q2, up 20%, with profits of $10.96 billion. Semiconductors, displays, mobile and CE were all good. The display business saw sales of $6 billion and operating profits of $1.11 billion. The continued move to OLEDs in … Read more

AOC: New FreeSync Premium Monitors with 1000 R

What They Say AOC has two new VA monitors the C27G3U (27″ ) and C32G2AE (31.5″) that support 165Hz refresh but just FullHD resolution. However, the curved monitors have a radius of 1000mm (1000R). What We Think Apart from the relatively tight curve, there is little exceptional about these monitors. I don’t maintain a detailed … Read more

They All Laughed…

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round; They all laughed When Edison recorded sound. – Lyrics by Ira Gershwin, 1937 And I laughed, too, when rumors circulated — more than once — that Apple would build an automobile. Well, I’m not laughing now, at least not as loudly. The … Read more

Lightware Visual Engineering Provides LED Control for Epic Games Innovation Lab

Lightware Visual Engineering UK & Ireland, the leading manufacturer of DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort and USB-C matrix switchers, extenders, distribution amplifiers and AV-over-IP systems, is providing a critical component to Epic Games London Innovation Lab as it works towards specifying a standard design for extended reality (Xr) production work using its Unreal Engine real-time 3D software. … Read more

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Adds the NC1202L to its Digital Cinema Projector Series  

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, a global leader in the projector and display market, announced the availability of the NC1202L laser light source projector, an addition to its digital cinema projection series. Designed specifically for smaller screens at 7,000 lumens, the NC1202L is the ideal projection technology for standard sized movie theatres or projection booths that … Read more

Samsung’s 49-inch mini-LED gaming monitor will sell for $2,500

What They Say We’ve reported a couple of times on the new Samsung Neo G9 gaming monitor (Samsung Unveils the Future of Gaming With the Odyssey Neo G9 & Samsung to Introduce New MiniLED Gaming Monitor). It will be available to pre-order on 29th July in the US, with pricing at $2,499. Later…. I spotted … Read more

IDMS Extends Image Retention Testing to Colour

Image sticking and ‘burn-in’ are issues to some extent in all kinds of displays. In emissive displays, the issue is often called ‘burning’ and in transmissive displays such as LCDs, it’s usually known as ‘sticking’. Even reflective displays such as TI’s DMD once suffered from pixel sticking when the corners of the micromirrors seemed to … Read more