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An exuberant display industry showcased their next generation display technologies at Virtual DisplayWeek 2021 during May 17 to 21. The display industry is continuing along the path of innovations by bringing in new technologies, materials, and processes. The outlook for display industry revenue has never been better. Unprecedented demand due to work from home and … Read more
What They Say Barco published an article explaining that it has customised a 24″ display for an medical ultrasound system to boost backlight brightness and lifetime at high luminance. It also has a front sensor for luminance stability and faster power-up. What We Think I’ve tended to think of Barco as just a branded supplier … Read more
What They Say Analysts Yole Développement discussed the developoment of microdisplay microLEDs with Jade Bird Displays (JBD) and the companies covered a number of interesting points about the competition between microLED, LCOS and DLP solutions for headsets. There is some interesting discussion on some of the issues of using 8″ or 12″ CMOS wafers and … Read more
What They Say A number of sources, including Digitimes, have reported that the Indian government is looking to invest to build LCD production in the country. The Secretary of MeitY (the Ministry of Electronics & IT) in India is reported to have said that the government has received ‘expressions of interest’ in starting panel making … Read more
Atomos is proud to announce the New Atomos Shinobi 7. The new big, bright and beautiful monitor-only provides the expansive screen real estate of the large 7” screen with the lightweight Monitor-only function of the original Atomos Shinobi. The New Shinobi 7 Shinobi 7 is a bigger and brighter screen and takes the foundations of … Read more
What They Say Australian field monitor developer, Atomos, has a new 7″ Shinobi 7 touch monitor with calibrated peak brightness of 2,200 cd/m² and claimed to be able to show 10+ stops of dynamic range in real time from Log/PQ/HLG signals. To support the high brightness there is an adaptive cooling mode to allow a … Read more
What They Say SMPTE interviewed Matthew Goldman, a SMPTE Fellow and past SMPTE President and previously with MediaKind, about developments in codecs and why there is more proliferation of different technology. He pointed out that in the past, codecs were optimised to make the most of the hardware that was available to decode the stream. … Read more
Vacuums were much on my mind when I listened to the last couple of talks in the DSCC/SID Business Conference in the TV section, given by Jason Hartlove of quantum dot (QD) developer, Nanosys and Rachel Cassidy and James Murphy of GE, which is developing phosphors. Both companies are really helping develop technical solutions to … Read more
What They Say Nikkei reports that Sony has ‘sharply’ expanded the automation in its TV factory in Malaysia to compete more effectively with Korean and Chinese brands. The aim is to reduce production costs by 70% between 2018 and 2023. The company is reported to have a completely unstaffed production line and plans to move … Read more
Apple’s iPhones dominated the best-selling models’ list for Q1 2021 both in terms of volume as well as value, according to the Counterpoint Research Global Handset Model Tracker, Q1 2021. Analysis by Revenue The global smartphone revenues crossed the $100-billion mark in Q1 2021, setting a first-quarter record driven by the flagships, which grabbed most … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research put out some interesting data on smartphone sales revenues by model in Q1 2021 and highlighted that Apple’s iPhone Series 12 took one third of the market, while the top ten models by revenue took 46% of all global smartphone revenues, while on a volume basis, the top 10 only … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research posted its result for Q1 2021 in the global smartwatch market. Apple grew its share by 3 points to 33.5% and although Samsung grew by 27% YoY, it lost share from 10.1% to 8.4%. These volumes include basic smartwatches with low-level proprietary OS or RTOS (like from Xiaomi and OPPO), … Read more
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