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What They Say We don’t often report personnel changes, but we noted that Barco’s CEO of the last five years, Jan de Witte, has resigned and that he will be replaced by co-CEOs Charles Beauduin and An Steegen, Beaudin is also Chairman. At the same time, Barco reported its first half result. Orders were up … Read more
What They Say Korean OLED analyst specialist, UBI Research, quoted in The Elec, has forecast that there will be a shortage of supply of large OLED panels for TVs by 2024. Demand will increase from 7.2 million this year to 10 million in 2023 and 12 million in 2024. However, LG’s capacity is currently around … Read more
What They Say I registered interest in the LG 31.5″ OLED monitor with BH Photo in the US and it has been sending me regular updates confirming that it was not yet available – the last one just a few days ago. However, it has now published a review that highlights the great performance but … Read more
What They Say Dolby conducted a survey of content professionals to find out what they thought of SDR content that was automatically derived from Dolby Vision mastered content. The background and results of the survey were presented in a YouTube video. Dolby said that the result of the survey was very positive, but with only … Read more
Startup Spartan HUD (Toronto, Canada) has started to sell a product called the Spartan HUD Helmet (Flagship Edition). The Spartan HUD augments the user’s vision through overlays on a high definition LCD. The mixed reality helmet is represented as “comfortable, lightweight and powered by a full desktop computer – all while offering the flexibility of … Read more
What They Say The number of UHD TV receivers sold in Spain is close to seven million, with almost one million of them distributed last year, according to José María Vázquez, product and quality director of Vestel Ibérica. Since last June, the blog reported, the UHD Spain association has been broadcasting content through DTT, satellite, … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research in its newsletter published guidance on the PC market and said that momenum would continue to push strong sales. Premium notebook PC demand may squeeze Chromebooks. Overall, the firm expects a market for 333 million PCs this year. In the article, the firm included an interesting comparison of component lead … Read more
The Extended Reality (XR) headset shipments almost tripled annually in Q1 2021, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker. The Oculus Quest 2 success drove these volumes. Offering great hardware at a reasonable price, Oculus kept improving the performance of the Quest 2 with regular software updates, while … Read more
Christie® announced the release of Version 2.5 of Christie Mystique™, an automated camera-based alignment software solution designed to simplify and automate the process of warping and blending multiple projectors into a single, seamless canvas. With Version 2.5, Mystique Essentials and Pro Venue Editions offer two new features to improve overall image fidelity and uniformity in … Read more
What They Say We reported last week on Counterpoint’s view of the XR market last week and now it has released data on brand shares in Q1 2021, which was almost three times the market size in Q1 2020 and was driven by the success of the Oculus Quest 2 which hit cumulative sales of … Read more
What They Say DigiLens said that it has done a deal with Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. to develop the DigiLens plastic waveguide technology. The approach is claimed to be the only approach to making plastic elements that does not use nanoimprint lithography (NIL imprinting. “Because DigiLens uses its proprietary photopolymer and holographic contact copy manufacturing process, … Read more
What They Say XBox chief Phil Spencer, speaking on the Kinda Funny Gamescast rated the Quest 2 headset as very good, partly because it works so well untethered. Microsoft still has no plan to create a headset, but is thinking about providing content. Eventually, however if the XBox environment got bigger, there would be more … Read more
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