Modern TV sets start with panels. Sometimes high-end and still fairly expensive OLED devices, and other times slightly lower-specified alternates. But Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) says that manufacturers are not maintaining their Capital Expenditure when 2023 is compared with 2022 and earlier, and forecast a dramatic drop in CapEx this year. DSCC has downgraded […]
Virgin Media O2 is now offering its existing TV customers the ability to watch live Sky Sports channels in Ultra HD. All existing Virgin TV customers can add the Sky Sports Ultra HD package – which includes Sky Sports Main Event Ultra HD and Sky Sports Ultra HD 1 – to their bill for an […]
Xumo, the streaming platform joint venture between US multiplay operators Comcast and Charter, and Element Electronics are to launch a new line of 4K Ultra HD smart TVs, across the US in 2023. Xumo was formed to develop and offer a next-generation streaming platform on a variety of branded 4K streaming devices and smart TVs. […]
Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) in its latest quarterly industry study, says that the Advanced TV Market will expand by some 14 per cent CAGR between now and 2027 and be worth $34 billion (€32.2bn). However, DSCC says it has cut back on its forecast for OLED TVs has been reduced in 2022-2026 due to […]
AT the CES show in Las Vegas, TV streaming platform Roku has unveiled its Roku Select and Roku Plus Series TVs. These Roku-branded HD and 4K TVs are the first to be both designed and made by Roku. The Roku Select and Plus Series TVs, as well as a new Roku TV Wireless Soundbar, will […]
Analysts at market research company Omdia say that China expects to take more than 50 per cent share of unit and area shipments in large area displays for the first time. Omdia adds that shipments of large-area display in 2022 decreased by 8 per cent YoY in unit terms and 3 per cent YoY, according […]
Would-be viewers to high-end televisions are always impressed by 8K Ultra High-Definition images. Indeed, even 8K (from sources such as YouTube) when viewed on a decent 4K set with high dynamic range installed, cannot help but be amazed at the image quality. These images are similar in concept to those when 4K was embryonic. They […]
A Japanese glass manufacturer has developed anti-glare TV screen glass for 4K high-definition displays, notebook PCs and similar devices. AGC, based in Tokyo, reduces glare (best described as random unevenness on a screen caused by optical factors) as well as supressing light reflection. Anti-glass (AG) glass reduces eye fatigue by adding unevenness to the glass […]
China-based OLED panel producers BOE Technology Group and TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology have steadily boosted their output of high-end OLED panels. By next year they’ll control some 43 per cent of global demand for OLEDs. Analysts at Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) say that South Korea’s technology giants LG Display and Samsung currently have […]
Day 5 of the Malaga 4K HDR Summit heard Antonio Fernández-Paniagua, Deputy Director of Planning and Management of the Radioelectric Spectrum confirm that “experimental broadcasts in UHD have been authorised in practically all the provincial capitals”. He told delegates that under Spain’s existing regulations all TV channels, whether local, regional or national, have to upgrade […]