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Sharp Corporation and NEC Corporation completed the previously announced transaction to form a joint venture by Sharp acquiring 66% of shares for NEC Display Solutions Ltd., a subsidiary of NEC. In connection with the completion of the transaction, NDS has changed its company name to Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. (hereinafter ‘SNDS’) and has started … Read more
What They Say Google will require Android TV device makers to support the AV1 codec from April 1st 2021. The latest Fire TVs (from Toshiba and others) have already got support and Netflix is reported to be working on support for its app. The Roku Ultra device, recently launched (What Bob Saw on the Net … Read more
That’s another virtual conference in the books. This time it was the OLED Summit. Just like last year, there were a few talks on EL-QLED devices as the OLED community wants to keep tabs on the competition (I suspect). I had intended on sharing my thoughts on the OLED summit with you earlier, but I … Read more
What They Say Universal Display reported its Q3 2020 financial results, with revenues of $117 million (up from $58 million in Q2 2020 and $98 million in Q3 2019, and a net income of $40.5 million. UDC ended the quarter with with $673 million in cash and equivalents Apple posted revenues of $64.7 billion for … Read more
What They Say Epson announced a new OLED microdisplay and an AR display engine. The engine will be used in the firm’s Moverio glasses and also sold on the merchant market. The new microdisplay has a 0.453″ diagonal, resolution of 1920 x 1080 and contrast quoted at 500K:1. What We Think In September, Epson Taiwan … Read more
What They Say Although we haven’t been able to pin down an original source, we have seen various reports that Royole has announced a $2.4 billion flexible OLED fab to be built in Qingdao, China. What We Think I can’t say that I have been impressed with any of the Royole OLEDs that I have … Read more
What They Say The Deutsche TV-Plattform has launched a support initiative for the CI-Plus V2.0 system. The key development in version 2 is to support the use of external USB keys for decryption control. What We Think For those readers not involved in European TV, the CI slot was a standard slot to allow modules … Read more
What They Say The Elec in Korea reports a forecast from Stone Partners that half of all new flexible OLED smartphones due to launch in 2021 will come from Apple, with the market representing 315 million units, up 52%. Apple’s volume of OLEDs is expected to go from 90 million to 160 million. Samsung Electronics … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to (yet another) webinar for a new product launch in virtual reality by HP. I really wasn’t looking forward to it – just another Windows VR headset, it seemed, but it turned out to be significantly more than that. So, let’s get the basics out of the … Read more
In my previous article, “More Tales from the Pandemic (Pain Points in Education, Part I)“, I highlighted five “pain points” that educational institutions are currently enduring due to the Pandemic. These five were, of course, all hurdles that were quite predictable. Today’s article, however, focuses on some newer and less foreseeable pain points that schools … Read more
This is the second part of a short series on how wider colour gamut content is coming to the market. Yesterday , I looked at how the technology allows content with wider colour gamut than Rec. 709/P3 to get to the wider colour gamut displays that are now available using, for example, quantum dots and … Read more
What They Say Vizio said that its M-Series Quantum, P-Series Quantum, and P-Series Quantum X, which have the firm’s ProGaming Engine, will be upgraded to support AMD FreeSync, with the P-Series going to the FreeSync Premium level. On P-Series, you also can take advantage of the Nvidia RTX30, a new 4K 120fps HDMI graphics card. … Read more
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