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What They Say Roku reported revenues up 73% year on year to $452 million in Q3 2020 with gross profit up 81% to $215 million. Operating profit was up to $12 million against a loss last year of $26.5 million. Active accounts were up from 32.2 million to 46 million and streaming hours up from … Read more
What They Say Sharp saw sales up 1.9% to $10.78 billion for the first half of its fiscal 2020, but saw profits decline 17.8% as sales of office printers dropped. The company expects to get back on track in the second half of the year. What We Think I remember, many years ago, working with … Read more
A team of researchers led by Professors Myung-Hoon Song and Sang-Gyu Kwak of the Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, Korea) in conjunction with Han-Young Woo of the Department of Chemistry at Korea University (Seoul, Korea) and others, recently announced the development of a perovskite-based LED (PeLED) technology that can enable improvements related to … Read more
What They Say We reported a couple of days ago on the Innolux demonstrations of miniLED and microLED at an event in Taiwan (OPTO Taiwan 2020 Live Coverage – Innolux and PlayNitride Unveil New Micro LED Displays. Now Digitimes has identified HC Semitek of China as the supplier of the miniLEDs for the 55″ display. … Read more
What They Say The Elec in Korea reports that both Samsung and LG are planning TVs with miniLED backllights to get closer to the contrast performance of OLEDs. The paper said that Samsung’s supply chain from Seoul Viosys and PlayNitride from Taiwan and that the firm would be more aggressive in developing miniLED than LG. … Read more
What They Say Taiwanese panel makers saw a drop in volumes of both large and small panels in October. Hannstar gave positive guidance on its expectations for the year. What We Think The volumes of large panels are basically following typical seasonal patterns. (BR)
JOLED Inc., an OLED expert and manufacturer of 4K OLED by printing technology, started testing digital signage using its OLED displays in cooperation with JR East Retail Net Co., Ltd. at the NewDays stores of JR Ichigaya Station and other stations starting from Sunday, November 1, 2020. Through this initiative, JOLED will demonstrate the usefulness … Read more
Colour has been much on my mind recently, after the recent articles on WCG and content that I published. In those articles, I talked a lot about colour gamuts and showed a 2D diagram of some gamuts shown in a standard CIE format. However, colour doesn’t really work in 2D. Or does it? The most … Read more
The Nissan Rogue has undergone a complete digital makeover for the 2021 model year – with Visteon supplying the cutting-edge digital cluster technology as one of three high-tech in-car displays that launches the start of a new generation of vehicles. With a ground-up redesign, the compact SUV now comes in a boxier style – and … Read more
Rollable OLEDs are nothing new. LG has been showing its OLED-R horizontally rollable TV display on the trade show circuit for years, and BOE has shown a rollable prototype. But in late October, TCL’s China Star Optoelectronics Technology showed OLEDs at the on-line DTC 2020 that were both rollable and ink-jet printed. The primary demo … Read more
What They Say Global tablet shipments are expected to increase 7.3% sequentially to a 13-quarter high in the fourth quarter of 2020, with significant increases in orders from Southeast Asia, India and Latin America for education applications, according to Digitimes Research. Third-quarter 2020 global tablet shipments rose 10.5% sequentially and 0.4% on year to 43.83 … Read more
What They Say ABI Research said that 40 million consoles will ship in 2020, up 6% on last year as a result of the pandemic. However, the crisis has delayed the introduction of 8K which was expected to be highlighted at the delayed 2020 economics. Khin Sandi Lynn, Industry Analyst at ABI Research said: “Although … Read more
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