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Vizio Dumps OLED Prices in US

What They Say Best Buy is offering the Vizio 55″ to signed-in Best Buy account holders for just $899 and the 65″ for $1,499. What We Think Wow! That’s seriously cheap. For LG it may not help to maintain the premium perception of OLED if prices are pushed down so far. It’s certainly a good … Read more

Slingbox Stops Service in 2022

What They Say Sling Media said that it would discontinue the supply its Slingbox products with immediate effect and would discontinue its support of the service in two years time in November 2022. The company said that it would not be releasing any new products What We Think I knew people that really relied on … Read more

MicroLED Technology in Pursuit of TV and Smartphone Displays; Aledia, Jade Bird Compared to OLEDs (Part 2)

Yesterday, we looked at the way that Aledia is developing its Nanowire microLED technology. Today we look at the cost issues and practicalities. The next list shows the many approaches that have been proposed for mass transport, but only the simple pick and place has been used commercially. There’s a nice diagram available online here … Read more

Micro LED Technology in Pursuit of TV and Smartphone Displays; Aledia, Jade Bird Compared to OLEDs (Part 1)

Hardly a day goes by without another market research company anticipating that microLEDs will dominate the display industry or that another start-up has made a breakthrough to enable cost effective product development. Yet the only commercial µLED products released to date are very large, very expensive TV monitors from Samsung, Sony and LG. Sony released … Read more

VESA Funds Development of New Video Compression Test Tool for High Dynamic Range Displays

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has sponsored the development of a test tool for high dynamic range (HDR) display applications that evaluates the visually lossless performance of video compression codecs. The test tool serves as an extension to the Psychophysics Toolbox (PTB), a free software platform widely used in vision and … Read more

Sky Deutschland to Chop More SD

What They Say Sky Deutschland is switching more of its SD channels to be exclusively HD on its cable service on November 26th 2020. The HD channels are available at no extra charge. On Sky receivers, the HD channels will automatically appear in the channel list; subscribers with a CI+ module or a third-party receiver … Read more

Market Share of LTPS Smartphone Panels in 2021 Likely to Be Constrained by Increasing AMOLED Panel Capacities and High a-Si Panel Demand, Says TrendForce

As the COVID-19 pandemic caused flagship smartphones to turn in lower-than-expected sales performances in 1H20, the market share of AMOLED phones fell short of forecasts made in early 2020, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations. The market share of AMOLED phones for 2020 is expected to reach 33%, a 2% increase YoY, thanks to the release … Read more

Monitor Shipment Expected to Grow by 5.4% YoY in 2020, While Asus Undergoes Highest % Growth and Samsung Rises in Ranking, Says TrendForce

Global monitor shipment is projected to grow by 5.4% YoY this year owing to strong shipment performances against the downtrend by monitor brands that primarily focus on the consumer markets; as of 2020, these brands have experienced three consecutive years of YoY shipment growth, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations. This strong shipment performance can be … Read more