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Earthquake Disrupts Chips and Components

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Wednesday saw a substantial earthquake off the Northeast Coast of Japan. The quake registered as magnitude 7.3, down below the level 9.0 of the disastrous one that caused the tsunami that …

Tags:Automotive| Japan| Semiconductors| Supply Chain| Ukraine

Links W/C 7th March 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. A great 360 degree presentation of Van …

Tags:Automotive| Broadcast Monitors| Desktop Monitors| Litigation| MMD (AOC Philips)| Museums & Exhibitions| OLEDs| Patents| Russia| Supply Chain| Ukraine| VideoConferencing

Car Companies Are Hiding their Displays

by Bob Raikes

We display specialists like to see our displays, but in the design world and I have often written about the issue of the ‘Black hole on the wall’, or how your big TV looks …

Tags:Automotive| LCD Panels| MiniLED| Privacy

HTC VIVE and holoride Unveil VR in-car entertainment at MWC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HTC Vive said in a blog post that is working with Holoride to allow support of the Vive Flow VR headset in vehicles. The two companies are working together to demonstrate …

Tags:Automotive| HTC| MWC 2022| Virtual Reality

Tanvas Video Shows a Haptic-enabled Flexible AMOLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Haptic technology supplier, Tanvas of the US, posted a series of videos showing its haptic technology demonstrated on a flexible OLED. The 12.1″ display uses Tanvas PET film-based touch and haptic …

Tags:Automotive| Haptics| Touch Market

AUO Optimistic about LTPS Automotive Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported on the automotive market for displays and spoke to AUO which said that it is basing a lot of new projects in that sector on LTPS backplanes. The site …

Tags:AUO| Automotive| LCD displays| LTPS TFT| Market Data| Pricing

Autonomous Vehicles – Another Enabler In Sight

by Bob Raikes

Today, I’m going to talk about something that’s not directly a display topic, but is a potentially significant display use case. That is to say, autonomous vehicles, and, in particular, cars. If your interest …

Tags:Automotive| Legislation

BMW Expands MyModes Interfaces

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Among the items announced by BMW at CES, there was a boost in the number of different interfaces for its BMW My Modes system. There are now five settings, up from …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2022| Software

150 million Fire TV devices sold by Amazon

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon said that it and its partners have shipped more than 150 million devices based on the Fire TV OS since 2014. It revealed this in its quarterly earnings statement and …

Tags:Amazon| Automotive| Operating Systems| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

RealD Looks at Entertainment on the Move

by Bob Raikes

I tend to think of RealD as a supplier of cinema technology in display or image processing, although it also has other technologies. I remember seeing a cool idea for changing the apparent direction …

Tags:Automotive| Dual Panel LCDs| Privacy| RealD