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Links Round-up Week Ending 26th Feb 2021

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. HP U28 4K HDR Monitor Review: Color You Can Count On LG Asks for Right to Repair Legislation in Australia Samsung reveals US pricing for 2021 Q80A, Q70A, … Read more

You Make LCDs and We’ll Buy QD-OLEDs Deal Done at Samsung

What They Say The ETNews in Korea reports that there has been a change in the policy of the Samsung Electronics VD business towards the QD-OLED technology being developed by Samsung Display (Samsung Visual Display Division Forsakes QD-OLEDs in Favor of MiniLED TVs). The paper reports that the VD business, which makes the Samsung TVs, … Read more

LG Display to invest additional $750 million for plant in Vietnam: reports

What They Say The Korea Times reported that LG Display plans to make an additional investment of $750 million in its plant in Vietnam, which would bring its investment to a total of $3.25 million. It would take on 5,000 additional staff, the report said, to make more OLED modules. What We Think Although China … Read more

ViewSonic Launches its Two screens for Teachers initiative

ViewSonic UK, a leading global provider of visual solutions, announces its Two Screens for Teachers initiative. From 1st Feb to 31st March ViewSonic are offering up to 25% off their Touch and Non-Touch monitors especially for teachers and educational organisations. The ongoing global COVID pandemic has turned teachers’ lives upside down. All across the UK, … Read more

Flexible OLED Display Driving Next Generation Smartphones

The smartphone market has slowed down considerably in recent years. It was expected to recover in 2020 with 5G product introductions but the pandemic impacted both supply and demand side in the first half of the year. Smartphone shipments returned to positive growth in 4Q20 with the Apple iPhone 12(5G) introduction and its record performance. … Read more

LG’s 27″ OLED monitor, the 27EP950, to cost $2,999

What They Say A Reddit user posted a link to a new product page for a 27″ UltraHD OLED monitor from LG Electronics, due to cost $2997. Pre-orders are available, but no specifications have been released, although there is a part number, the 27EP950-B. The part number has already been logged with Korean regulatory authorities. … Read more

Developments Regarding LEDs that Can Directionally Emit Polarized Light

A team of researchers headed by Xiangyu Fu in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) are developing a means to control the direction and polarization of light emitted from thin film LEDs. One reason that this development is significant is that it has the potential to improve … Read more

Kopin Corporation and HMDmd Enter Development Agreement with Major US Medical Technology Company to Develop Wearable Display System for Surgeons

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer of high-resolution microdisplays, display subassemblies and head-mounted display systems, and HMDmd, INC., an innovator and developer of wearable display technology for surgeons, announced they have signed an agreement with a major medical technology company to design a precision head-worn display system. The device, based on Kopin’s proprietary platform, will be … Read more

ISE Sticks with June

What They Say Although the Infocomm 2021 show has moved back to take place in October in Orlando, the organisers of ISE have decided to stay with 1st to 4th June in Barcelona. Mike Blackman said Looking ahead to June, we can confirm that today, over 37,000 sqm of space is signed up with just … Read more

And the Academy Award Goes To….

This week, specialist display and visual systems maker, Eizo, had some good news to announce about its monitors. It has won an Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its ColorGraphic monitors which are widely used by content creators. The award was granted because Eizo has introduced monitors … Read more