Empowering display industry professionals with cutting-edge insights and analysis
What They Say SPIE.org published an article that summarises developments in AR and emphasises that the technology is not new, but has been around for 50 years or so in some applications. The writer gets comments from a number of industry players including Bernard Kress, principal optical architect at Microsoft. What We Think This is … Read more
LG Electronics will introduce its first-ever QNED Mini LED TVs at the all virtual CES® 2021 as its top-of-the-line product offering among its 2021 premium LCD TV lineup. LG’s newest TVs represent a giant leap forward in LCD TV picture quality. Thanks to quantum dot and NanoCell technologies with Mini LEDs as the light source, … Read more
What They Say LG issued a press release to say that it has made a ‘QNED Mini LED’ TV that it will unveil during the virtual CES next week. The LCD TVs will have up to 30,000 LEDs with up to 2,500 dimming zones at sizes of up to 86″ and refresh rates up to … Read more
What They Say Trendforce put out a forecast for revenues from the LED industry, which the firm expects to grow by 3.8% to $15.7 billion in 2021. The firm said that LED backlighting had seen “remarkable performances across the board this year.” MiniLED market value is expected to grow to $131 million in 2021, a … Read more
Imagine a single cable carrying both video, data and power signal for the screen. For a professional, a tidy workspace is always easier to setup and configure, and it also smooth the way for productivity. This new USB-C cable is slim and ultra-neat, on top of reducing clutter, it also enables and boosts a major … Read more
What They Say The Broadcast Bridge published an interesting article on the differences between PQ- and HLG-based HDR EOTFs and contrasts them with the traditional gamma curves used in content development. What We Think The article doesn’t say anything new or revolutionary, but is a good explanation of the differences between the scene-referred and display-referred … Read more
What They Say I can’t remember how I got to it, but I was impressed with the Twinkly LED lights for festive trees and decorations. The system uses a smartphone camera to map its RGB LEDs to a grid which can then be used for animations and sophisticated displays. What We Think This is a … Read more
What They Say Mac Rumors spotted a support document from Apple that acknowledges that some ‘ultrawide or super-ultrawide’ displays are not supported at full resolution on Macs with the new M1 chip. The document doesn’t say which resolutions are not supported. Apple said it would support the resolutions in a future Mac OS update. There … Read more
What They Say The Verge reports that the FCC has spotted a model SMG998 from Samsung, believed to be the Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone in a listing by the FCC. What We Think There has been widespread speculation that the S21 Ultra would feature the S-Pen and we have reported these rumours. The rumours have … Read more
What They Say Protocol published its most popular articles for 2020 and included one that dug into the falure of Daqri, the developer of helmets with augmented reality integrated. In February, the blog spoke to several ex-staff about the company and its rise and fall. The company started by aiming at consumers, then jumped to … Read more
What They Say Blog site Protocol published some of its highlight articles of the year and included one from the COO of Niantic, the developer of the Pokemon Go app. The article was originally published at the end of July and in it, Megan Quinn, the COO, said that she believed that we were then … Read more
What They Say Goertek of China said that it has opened a new global R&D headquarters in Qingdao, China. The firm said that it invests 6%-8% of its revenues in R&D and it has applied for 20,000 patents, with more than 10,000 granted. Upon completion, the headquarters will have a total construction area of more … Read more
Jon Peddie Research
4 St. Gabrielle Ct.
Tiburon, California 94920
415-435-9368
© 2025 Jon Peddie Research
