Year: 2021

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Vizio Adds On-Demand Content to AVOD Service

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio put out a press release to highlight that it has added a ‘massive’ library of free on demand content to its streaming SmartCast service. This adds to the existing streaming …

Tags:AVOD| USA| Vizio

Behind the Screens: The Emerging Viewership Landscape

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has been building a business, run by Samsung Ads, to develop and exploit the huge installed base of Samsung SmartTVs and the firm has published, through DTV Europe, an interesting analysis of how …

Tags:AVOD| Europe| North America| Samsung| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing

Location-based VR studios are growing in popularity.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Forbes magazine spoke to the CEO of an LBE VR company, Spree Interactive at AWE in Santa Clara. The firm makes ‘free roam’ attractions and others such as VR Bumper Car …

Tags:Covid-19| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

ATEME Brings World-First HDR10+ Support in Live Transcoding

by Artem Alekseenko

ATEME, a leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has announced it has introduced support for the HDR10+ metadata in its TITAN Live transcoders, enabling broadcasters, service providers …

Tags:ATEME| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Transcoders

Links Week Ending 3rd December 2021

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 second part of this week. Vodafone TV launches on LG smart TVs …

Tags:Big Data/AI| Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Game Playing| InkJet Deposition| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED Materials| OLEDs| Smart TV| Vodafone

VESA Publishes Thousands Of High-Resolution Video And Image Files

by Artem Alekseenko

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has made one of the largest sources of high-resolution, high dynamic range (HDR) image and video content available for unrestricted public use. More than 28,000 …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| VESA

FETC 2022 Preview: What’s New

by Len Scrogan

The ed-tech conference season in the U.S. kicks off at the start of each year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference, which rotates its venue from Orlando to Miami, Florida. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| display technology| Education| Events| Virtual Reality

Gizmodo Spots a Strange Shaped Desktop Monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Gizmodo spotted an 8.8″ diagonal ‘stretch’ desktop LCD display that has a resolution of 420 x 1920 and connects via HDMI. It is powered by USB Type-C The Elsonic EK-MD088 will …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Japan| USB

Creating an 8K Channel “Not That Hard” Says TCL

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association followed up the release by TCL about its 8K channel for its Roku-based Series 6 sets (Links Week Ending 19th November 2021). The organisation got Ben Schwarz to …

Tags:Roku| Streaming Video| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TCL