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What They Say Digitimes Research is forecasting that smartphone sales will be up 50% year on year to 340 million units in Q1 2021 with sales of Apple handsets going well (forecast at >60 million), while Chinese brands ramp up shipment volumes to fill the gap left by Huawei. Apple is likely to be the … Read more
What They Say Digital TV Research forecast that North American OTT TV revenues will continue to grow and will reach $94 billion in 2026, nearly double the $49 billion seen in 2020. $88 billion would be in the US and $5.4 billion in Canada. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “SVOD and … Read more
MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, has announced that it has integrated Dolby Vision® technology within its encoding portfolio. Dolby Vision will be supported within MediaKind Packaging and MediaKind Encoding Live products, and MediaKind’s Aquila Streaming and Aquila Broadcast solutions providing any resolution from standard definition (SD) to Ultra High Definition … Read more
What They Say A hat tip to DSCC’s weekly subscription newsletter for pointing me to a blog and interview with Kelly Peng of Kura, a company developing some AR glasses that have very (too?) impressive specifications and that are now said to be available in kit and production versions. Features are 150° FOV diagonal, about … Read more
What They Say Various websites have reported that Sharp has sold all its shares in Sakai Display Products Corp, the G10 fab that was at one time the jewel in its crown as an LCD maker. It had held a 24.55% share of voting rights in the firm. What We Think This doesn’t seem to … Read more
3M has often been the source of real innovations in the display field, so I was surprised to stumble upon a new technology for optics that seemed to have slipped by me when it was first announced. However, I’ve caught up now, after seeing a reference to a joint development that 3M is pursuing with … Read more
What They Say The GfU put out its data for home electronics sales in 2020 in Germany. The fully detailed information can be downloaded here. However here are some items we picked out. TV sales were up from 6.475 million to 7.2 million for the year, up 11.2%, but with average prices up just 1.9%. … Read more
What They Say Mike Blackman of ISE put out a statement with details of the organisers’ policies for the event which is still due to go ahead from 1st to 4th June this year. The organisation is looking at roadshows to get products in front of interested parties in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. … Read more
What They Say Sigmaintell Research of China published its Large LCD panel price trend report for February and forecast that all prices will be up again in March. The rises are being helped by tight supply, with Samsung’s LCD business giving up monitors this quarter and tight supply in driver electronics. The firm said that … Read more
What They Say An unconfirmed report in the Korea JoongAng Daily said that LG has only sold ten 65″ rollable OLED TVs in Korea in the last quarter of 2020. The sets, in the Signature R series, are made to order to allow for buyer customisation. The report also said that it LG appears to … Read more
JVC Kenwood has announced the upcoming availability of the company’s enterprise focused, extended reality headset, the HMD-VS1W. The headset is intended to be connected to and operate in conjunction with an external computer. A feature of a so-called extended reality headset is that it does not block the user’s direct view of the outside world. … Read more
As if anyone doesn’t already sense it, everything is changing in the education world due to The Rona. While I have a pretty good handle on what’s happening in the U.S. on those counts, it’s always instructive to see what’s transpiring in other parts of the world. The other day I had a catch-up Zoom … Read more
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