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PC Shipments Show Continued Strength in Q1 2021 Despite Component Shortages and Logistics Issues, According to IDC

April 12, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Global shipments of traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, grew 55.2% year over year during the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. While PCs remain in extremely high demand, the growth rate benefitted from the shortages faced in the … Read more

Samsung to Buy OLED TV Panels from LG?

April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Various Korean news reports say that Samsung’s Visual Display division has met with LG Display with a view to buying, it is reported, one million TV panels this year and four million next year. What We Think Well this would be a big, big surprise and I did check that the reports … Read more

UHD TVs Installed Base Rises 27%

April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics reported data for the development of the market for UltraHD TV sets. The number of homes worldwide using an UltraHD TV reached 380 million at the end of 2020, up by 27% from 301 million in 2019. In 2020 this equates to 19% of homes globally owning at least one … Read more

CReal showed off its light-field display

April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Real released a video that showed its latest ‘light field’ VR display optics system that shows how different objects at various distances can be rendered in focus at the centre of the display – the foveated region – the kind of image resulting that has been previously shown by Varjo. The company … Read more

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 10 – Summary

December 21, 2022April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say If you were interested in the Display Daily last week on the topic of scene-referred video (Poynton Defines “Scene Referred” Video), you will probably be interested in an article in ‘the Broadcastbridge’ that goes into the question of whether using gamma is a good way to store and process video. The author … Read more

ILM Explains Stagecraft Virtual Production Tools

April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Industrial Light & Magic released a video showing how its Stagecraft virtual production technology was used on the Mandalorian Season Two to accelerate and more accurately control production. The system relies on enclosing LED video walls around the action, including on the ceiling. Sets can be built completely virtually or, if there … Read more

SLAC Looks at QDs Very Closely

April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have published a paper via Nature that describes how the group has used lasers to stimulate quantum dots and captured images using a high speed ‘electron camera’ (MeV-UED) to watch the emissions. The experiments revealed that the incoming … Read more

We Catch Up with Omdia LED Market Data

December 21, 2022April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say About three weeks ago, Omdia released data on the development of the LED display market and said that in Q4 there was some recovery in the market, to see a total of 336,257m², up 23.5% on Q3. China had good performance in small pitch LED at 1.00-1.49mm pitch and Omdia said that … Read more

ViewSonic UK Extends Warranty on Some Monitors

April 9, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say ViewSonic said that it would extend the warranty on its VG (corporate) and VP monitors (for creatives) to five years in the UK. The previous warranty was three years. What We Think This is a small story, but it gives me a chance to address this point. I was involved with warranty … Read more

Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority and Samsung Partner to Unveil the Largest Digital Experience in U.S. Convention & Exhibitions Industry

April 9, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), Samsung Electronics America and Samsung SDS America, a global leader in digital transformation and innovation solutions, unveiled a state-of-the-art digital experience in the new West Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). Featuring a sleek, open-air design and an abundance of natural light, the atrium of … Read more

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Reach $4 Trillion in 2021

April 9, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.4% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. The source of funds for new digital business initiatives will more frequently come from business departments outside IT and charged as a cost of revenue or cost of goods sold … Read more

Omdia Forecasts Rollable TV Sales

December 21, 2022April 9, 2021 by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Business Korea reports that Omdia has said that rollable TV sales will reach 3,000 units in 2022, rising to 74,000 in 2024 and 672,000 in 2027. At present, only LG Display is making the panels and LG Electronics is making the sets. What We Think As we reported earlier, sales of these … Read more