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New Philips T-Line Education Displays Bring Transformational Change to Teaching and Learning – Now Available Across EMEA

November 10, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

PPDS is excited to announce the availability in its European warehouses of Philips T-Line – a brand new range of advanced interactive touch displays designed exclusively for education, bringing transformative levels of engagement and collaboration between students and tutors in the classroom. First unveiled at ISE 2020 in February, the new sleek and stylish Android-powered … Read more

Vizio Dumps OLED Prices in US

November 10, 2020 by Bob Raikes

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

LG Display to Expand OLED Supply to Apple

November 10, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec has said that LG Display is expanding its E6-1 and E6-2 lines to boost output by 25K/month additional substrates of LTPO (5K, then 10K in May 2021 and another 10K in June). The main reason is building the capacity to increase its shipments to Apple, the paper said and also … Read more

Yeolight Makes Segmented OLED for Automotive

November 10, 2020 by Bob Raikes

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What They Say Yeolight Technology of China has posted a video of its segmented OLED automotive light system. OLED-Info posted these details. “The OLED lighting module, which is shaped like a triangle, uses 50 segments each a right-angled triangle with an area of 19 mm2. The segments are created by photolithography with an accuracy of … Read more

Slingbox Stops Service in 2022

November 10, 2020 by Bob Raikes

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)

November 9, 2020 by Barry Young

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)

December 21, 2022November 9, 2020 by Barry Young

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

November 9, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

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

SVOD penetration at 80% of TV households in US

December 21, 2022November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to Leichtman Research Group, 60% of US households have both a pay TV service and at least one SVOD subscription. A further 20% of households have an SVOD subscription but no pay TV package – meaning that 80% of homes with a TV in the country subscribe to an SVOD. 74% … Read more

Sky Deutschland to Chop More SD

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

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

We Catch up with Sharp NEC Display Solutions

December 21, 2022November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, NEC Display Solutions became a joint venture subsidiary of Sharp and is now Sharp NEC Display Solutions. (Newly Born Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. Starts Business) What We Think We caught up with senior management at NEC Display in Europe in a Zoom call, but, as expected, there was … 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

November 9, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

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