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I have been following the Finnish mixed reality headset maker, Varjo, for several years and have been impressed and surprised by the company’s products, which have delivered the best mixed reality experiences that I had tried. Now, the company has really moved its headsets on again. Frustratingly, this time, I have had to take the … Read more
What They Say Experienced technology journalist, Avram Piltch of Toms Hardware, has highlighted that Lenovo’s 28″ L28u-30 UltraHD monitor was available on Black Friday for $239. The monitor has 300cd/m² of output and has support for 99% of sRGB, 90% of DCI-P3 and 1,000:1 contrast. The only downside for Piltch is that the monitors are … Read more
What They Say The Broadcast Bridge blog reported that it expects TV studios to be a good place for the installation of organic LCDs (OLCDs) because of the flexibility to wrap them around objects in the studio. The article also claims that free form shapes can be created. The article highlights the better performance of … Read more
What They Say Sixteen Nine regularly shows digital signage installations. This one, at a car rental desk, looks particularly interesting as it seems to show an application that would have, up to now, been supported by multiple LCDs, but has now switched to LED. What We Think It’s a couple of years since we reported … Read more
What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Display has started test operation of its QD-OLED production line in Asan. The Q1 line is an 8.5th generation line (2200 x 2500mm). Q1 is expected to operate at a rate of 15,000 substrates per month in the beginning. It has a capacity of 30,000 substrates. From … Read more
What They Say TechinAsia reports that Viewtrix (also known as Yunyinggu), a Chinese developer of display drivers, announced that it has secured 300 million yuan ($45.6 million) in a series D round led by Sequoia Capital China. Existing investors Qiming Venture Partners, Qualcomm, and Northern Light Venture Capital also participated in the round and Xiaomi … Read more
What They Say Advanced TV reports that France-based The Explorers is now shooting content in 16 bit 8K and claims to be the first to stream 8K/HDR10 content. The site reported that earlier this year Apple TV awarded The Explorers its ‘App of the Year’ accolade. Chiabodo said that more than 10 million users had … Read more
What They Say In my Display Daily today, I reported on a discussion with ViewSonic about developments in the projection market, as the company had been putting out very positive press, when we had understood that the market is well down. Luke Chen of ViewSonic made a great presentation of 40 pages and it contains … Read more
A few weeks ago, I got a press release about the projector market that had some very positive claims in it. Now, given the current situation in companies for meetings, I was really surprised, so I followed up with ViewSonic, who had issued the release, and got a good sense of what is going on … Read more
What They Say A journalist found that some settings on the new PlayStation 5 cause the image on the display to have much reduced contrast as the PS5 limits the dynamic range, apparently based on the HDMI settings, although this is not certain from the article. He found that when the image didn’t look good, … Read more
What They Say Tom’s Hardware published a list of what it regarded as the best value monitor deals on Black Friday What We Think There have been hundreds (and I mean hundreds!) of press releases with lists of deals, but Tom’s is a fairly thoughtful site, so I thought it worth a mention! (BR)
What They Say IDTechEx sent out a mail about some new developments including OLED materials. It highlights developments in TADF materials and said it was impressed with the host materials developed by early-stage US firm Molecular Glasses. This host material increases the solubility of dopant molecules, be they fluorescent, phosphorescent or TADF, while retaining charge … Read more
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