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What They Say We reported on Friday the rumours that Samsung might have agreed to buy OLEDs from LG for its TV business (Samsung to Buy OLED TV Panels from LG?). After we published, the IT Chosun in Korea claimed an exclusive for an interview with the President of Samsung’s VD division Jong-hee Han in … Read more
What They Say In line with the positive results in the LCD business, AUO and Innolux announced strong results for March with the first reporting revenue of $1.08 billion, up 20% on February and up 49.8% on a year ago. Innolux was up 7.4% on a month ago at $1.09 billion, fractionally above its rival … Read more
What They Say Tesla invited local reporters to have a look at the new tunnel under the LVCC that will use Tesla’s electric cars as taxis to move passengers between three stations. The tunnel was built in around a year by Elon Musk’s Boring Company. At the moment there just 11 or so taxis, but … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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