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LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced that it has obtained ‘Discomfort Glare Free’ marketing claim verification for its all OLED TV panels from UL, a leading global safety science company. In an industry first, LG Display’s OLED TV panels have been recognized as the first display that emits no glare. Discomfort … Read more
What They Say LG Display put out a press release saying that it had received a ‘Discomfort Glare Free’ marketing claim verification for its OLED TV panels. The certification is said to show a Unified Glare Rating (UGR) of 22 or less in lighting of 70 lux (said to be about the brightness of a … Read more
LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced that it is closing its mobile business unit. The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier. LG’s strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable the company to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial … Read more
What They Say As expected, today LG’ Electroncs’ board of directors decided to quit the smartphone business, although the existing inventory will be sold and there will be on-going support for hardware and software. The firm expects to be out of the sales and production side by the end of July. The company will continue … Read more
What They Say UDC and LG Display have extended their long term OLED Technology License and Material Purchase Agreements for a further five years. UDC pointed out that the companies have had agreements for nearly two decades. No details of the terms of the agreement were released. What We Think To be honest, this would … Read more
SKYWORTH, a leading global television brand, unveiled the world’s first mass-produced transformable OLED TV, SKYWORTH W82, and the industry’s first 8K OLED 120Hz TV with SKYWORTH AUDIO GLASS SOUND™, SKYWORTH W92 at the SKYWORTH TV 2021 Spring Product Launch themed “REACH NEW HEIGHTS”. “As a pioneer in 8K OLED TV solutions, SKYWORTH is committed to … Read more
Large LCD panel prices have been continuously increasing for last 10 months due to an increase in demand and tight supply. This has helped the LCD industry to recover from drastic panel price reductions, revenue and profit loss in 2019. It has also contributed to the growth of Quantum Dot and MiniLED LCD TV. Strong … Read more
What They Say A hat-tip to my good friend Alfred Poor for the heads-up on a new LED display, described as ‘holographic’, but of course, it’s not. The Dragon O display uses a kind of 3D set of 100 LED ‘strings’ that hang down to form a 3D space. Individual pixels can be addressed to … Read more
What They Say The Protocol newsletter wrote an interesting article about the motion features that are in the Echo Show 10 smart speaker from Amazon. Amazon said that it worked back from a desire of users to have the display facing them wherever they were in a room. The firm has given developers access to … Read more
Himax Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, and BOE Varitronix Limited, a world leading supplier of automotive display products, announced they joined forces to secure a flexible AMOLED automotive display solution design-win with a leading new energy vehicle (“NEV”) maker. The solution has recently been applied … Read more
The number of devices (PCs (laptops and deskbased), tablets and mobile phones) in use globally will total 6.2 billion units in 2021, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2021, 125 million more laptops and tablets are expected to be in use than in 2020. “The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed device usage patterns of employees and … Read more
What They Say We reported on a release by Samsung that talked about new miniLED driving chips, the S6LP441 and S6LDMB1. (Samsung Promotes new MiniLED Controller Architecture). The chips are not listed on the firm’s website so we couldn’t find any more information and followed up to ask for more information. This is the result … Read more
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