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Samsung Electronics announced that Samsung TV Plus,1 Samsung’s free Smart TV video service, which delivers instant access to news, sports, entertainment and more, has now expanded to 12 countries and 742 channels worldwide, bringing access to over 60 million Samsung Smart TVs. Since launching in 2015, Samsung TV Plus has become one of the most … Read more
What They S Samsung announced that it is extending its TV Plus service to now reach 12 countries and has 742 channels available. The firm said that over 60 million of its SmartTVs will be able to access the content. Recent platform expansions have brought the total market presence to 12, with new additions that … Read more
What They Say Business Korea reports that Samsung has temporarily stopped its project to make its own foldable glass. The decision was made that it was likely to be more competitive if it focussed instead on helping optimise the supply chain that Samsung Display is already using (Schott glass, processed by Dowoo Insys, which is … Read more
What They Say The Verge has got hold of the new ZTE Axon 20 5G and is the first phone to have its front-facing camera underneath the OLED. The smartphone has a 6.92″ 1080P OLED that the Verge found gave some colour-shifting when viewed off-axis. The area where the camera is has lower pixel density … Read more
What They Say Sony has issued a teaser about its direct-view display technology, with a development to be announced on January 6th 2021. What We Think The teaser strongly suggests to us that the announcement in the New Year will be the next development in the CLED LED display technology that Sony has been selling … Read more
A start-up company out of Cambridge University, Poro Technologies Ltd. (Sawston, United Kingdom) or Porotech has announced the upcoming availability of a native red LED epiwafer product. The development of an efficient native red technology is represented as a key enabler for microLED applications and the associated industry. This article is based on and partially … Read more
KONKA, a leading technology company in China, has released the world’s first Micro LED watch, the APHAEA Watch, at KONKA’s Semiconductor Display Technology and New Product Launch Conference and 2020 Chongqing Micro LED Industry Innovation Forum. KONKA’s future APHAEA series of Micro LED display products were also featured, highlighting the company’s R&D strengths in micro-pitch … Read more
What They Say Konka has announced a new smartwatch, the AphaeaWatch that uses a 2″ microdisplay with a pitch of 0.12mm (P0.12), which we calculate as giving 300 x 300 resolution (212ppi), although some seem to have calculated the resolution as 400 x 400. We suspect that they may have used the 2″ dimension as … Read more
What They Say Bodle Technologies has received funding through an extension to its £6m ($8m) Series A funding round. (Bodle Moves Onto the Next Stage) What We Think Bodle is still in the early stages, but there is a big opportunity for low power displays in the longer term. (BR)
Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe one of the global market leaders in professional large format displays, has joined a strategic alliance with Signagam, a spin-off of Belgian digital signage company Kimeru. The partners have embarked on an ambitious global computing expansion that will see the Signagram software suite integrated on all screens featuring the NEC … Read more
What They Say Contract manufacturer Wistron Corp has suffered a riot at an iPhone factory in India, reportedly over unpaid wages, although the company had commissioned employment agencies to pay the workers, according to a Taiwanese businessman with knowledge of the situation. After the riots, Taiwanese sources say that Apple has suspended orders to Wistron. … Read more
What They Say Advanced TV blog published an article based on a presentation by Tristan Veale of Futuresouce Consulting that sets out the competition between Pay TV ($127 billion in 2020) and SVoD ($55 billion in 2020) with SVoD growing rapidly. “Looking to transactional video, which includes physical disc sales as well as digital purchases … Read more
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