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What They Say Konka has confirmed that it will release a 75″ 8K TV using a miniLED backlight according to LEDInside. The TV is said to have 20,000 LEDs in 5184 dimming zones and uses an IPS panel. What We Think This is no surprise as the Chinese brands are likely to widely adopt miniLED, … Read more
What They Say DSCC’s Ross Young posted a blog article commenting on the Apple iPhone 12 launch and expressing surprise at the inclusion of 5G mmWave. The article points out that the cameras are an area of significant change and the Pro phones are thinner and lighter. We believe the Ceramic Shield material is likely … Read more
What They Say OLED-Info reports that TCL’s CSOT business will start to ship inkjet-made OLED panels for TVs in 2024 What We Think TCL has been working with JOLED. There was lots of coverage of IJP at the recent OLED World event. Whereas in the past, everybody was testing and trying, JOLED has been shipping … Read more
What They Say The Gfu in Germany has reported on the TV market in Germany. The value of the market was up to €2.6 billion over the first three quarters of the year and was up 5.5%. Volumes got to 4.6 million sets and the average price was slightly up at €565. TVs over 54″ … Read more
What They Say Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies reviewed the display on the OnePlus 8T smartphone and found that it is a very good display with up to 1,090 cd/m² peak brightness. Like other high end OLED smartphones based on Samsung Display OLEDs, in several ways it is ”visually indistinguishable from perfect’. Soneira awards … Read more
Pimax, a prominent VR hardware manufacturer dedicated to R&D and manufacturing of consumer and commercial Virtual Reality devices has successfully received $20M (USD) Series-B funding, announced at World Conference on VR Industry 2020 (WCVRI 2020). Pimax is most well known for their VR headsets extremely wide field of view (FOV), high resolution and high degree … Read more
Pixelworks®, Inc., a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, and OnePlus, a premium global smartphone manufacturer, announced that the new OnePlus 8T smartphone incorporates Pixelworks technology with unique display features, including its patented high-efficiency color calibration, color management, flesh tone correction and protection, flicker-free screen dimming and ultra-smooth adaptive brightness. The OnePlus … Read more
What They Say Optics.org reports that scientists at CEA-LETI in Grenoble (it seems to be LETI week – probably related to a virtual open day it recently held) have developed a 6 x 6mm surface with a printed pixellated hologram. The idea is to create a coherent image on the back of the retina by … Read more
What They Say The article gives some interesting data on how (US) consumers view the sharing of data to SmartTV operators. There are also some interesting numbers on how viewers feel about video piracy. What We Think On the one hand, you would think that targeted advertising would be attractive, but I must say I … Read more
It seems I’ve written a lot recently about EL-QLED progress, even though commercialization would appear to be still many years off. But it is just so interesting I can’t help myself! You may recall I lamented about the status of blue EL-QLED (electroluminescent QLED) earlier this year in Singing the EL-QLED Blues. A recent article … Read more
What They Say Netflix published a blog post to say that it is to use its latest codec schemes including per-title encode optimisations and per-shot dynamic optimisation on its back catalogue to reduce the bitrate needed without losing quality. The services started with fixed bitrate encoding. The firm has been improving its codec optimisation and … Read more
What They Say Here are three links with useful news on the smartphone market Strategy Analytics said that Samsung Captured 88 Percent Market-Share of 5G Smartphone Shipments in Western Europe in H1 2020 Report: Huawei is in talks to sell part of its Honor smartphone unit Nikkei reports that China’s Oppo makes play for European … Read more
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