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What They Say A giant “3D looking” cat, using a curved 154.7 m² 6mm pitch LED display with 4K resolution has been shown in Tokyo. A short test was shown on Twitter, but the final animation will be shown as the cat wakes on 12th July at 7:00am and going to sleep again at 1:00am. … Read more
New research from Parks Associates estimates that between 2014 and 2020, the US pay-TV industry lost over 18 million subscribers, while the broadband market has accelerated, with 40% of US broadband households receiving a standalone service. In 2020, over seven million households dropped their pay-TV services. Traditional pay TV — television services delivered over an … 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 second part of this week. This Inexpensive Backlight Makes Your Big TV Even More Immersive (an ‘Ambilight’-like add-on’) The smart glasses revolution is about to get real Snapchat Shares New Insights Into Emerging … Read more
Pay TV Households will decline from an estimated 921 million in 2020 to 680 million in 2026, impacting the annual shipments of Operator Set Tops, which falls from 242.6 million to 184.8 million, propped up by the upgrade cycle for new Set Top Box operating systems. This means that the install base for set tops … Read more
What They Say Analysts Counterpoint Research put out a forecast for XR devices as its ‘Chart of the Week’. The firm is very bullish about AR and VR usage and forecasts over 100 million headsets by 2025, with AR tethered headsets and untethered VR headsets leading in terms of volume share. What We Think There … Read more
To keep up with today’s fast-paced work environment, professionals need effective ways to handle daily tasks – and a high-performance monitor has a crucial role to play. To meet the needs of professionals such as financial advisors, graphic designers, architects, programmers, and any other user who longs for more screen real estate to have better … Read more
What They Say Prad.de reports that Acer has released a 32″ UltraHD monitor (XB323K) in China with a high refresh rate of 144Hz and certification to DisplayHDR 600. It is G-Sync Compatible. Native contrast is 1200:1 and luminance of 700 cd/m² from the IPS panel which is reported as having a 1ms response time (GtG) … Read more
What They Say We reported a couple of days ago on DSCC’s revision to its IT OLED panel forecast that put Samsung’s plans at more than 5 million this year. The Elec has added to the story by claiming that Samsung Display has boosted its target for notebook panels this year from 4 million to … Read more
What They Say In digging around to follow up a brief article in the Elec about large panel pricing, based on data from Witsview, I found an interesting article from a couple of weeks ago that highlighted that in the monitor market, rising panel prices have squeezed margins for set makers and the article highlighted … Read more
What They Say Samsung issued guidance on its Q2 financial result with sales forecast to be around $55 billion and with profits of close to $11 billion. Unusually, the firm highlighted a ‘one time gain’ for the display business, and the Korea Herald reported that the amount was around $435 million and was a one-off … Read more
We published an article on Porotech’s technology, which could be important for microLED at the end of last year. Now the firm has some more investment and we caught up with CEO Tongtong Zhu to find out more. Here’s a (very) brief introduction to the technology. Most LEDs are based on GaN technology, but the … Read more
Everyone is doing their darndest to make sure that Covid stays in 2020. Children are back in school (50% of the time) and the goal this fall will be full time … probably. “I’m most scared of unfulfilled potential.” – Mae, “The Circle,” 1978 Films, 2017 Susan, our avid theater-attending friend, hit her local movie … Read more
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