Year: 2022

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Notebook shipments to plateau for next 5 years

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Digitimes Research said that it believes that the surge in demand for notebooks, driven by the pandemic, may not be sustainable as it reported shipments of 247 million units in 2021, …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Notebooks| PCs

Pixotope® is Fully Battle-Tested at the Dota 2 International

by Artem Alekseenko

Valve’s 10-day long tournament for their smash hit Dota 2 game was held in Bucharest’s largest stadium, the 50,000 capacity ‘Arena Na?ional?’, and assembled the world’s top-ranking teams to battle it out on screen …

Tags:Game Playing| Sports and Stadiums

Good Online Guide to Codecs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Codec consultant, Jan Ozer (I’m sure I have one of his books from many years ago, somewhere..) has published an introductory guide to different codecs. What We Think This is a …

Tags:AV1 Codec| Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| VP8| VP9

NHK Develops 8K Slo-mo Camera

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television reported that NHK has developed an 8K camera that can capture and record at 240 fps making it suitable for slow motion sports coverage. BS4K and BS8K broadcast at …

Tags:Cameras| Japan| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Links Week Starting 14th February 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. (Most of them monitors, it seems!) MSI: …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Japan| Market Data| Piracy| Semiconductor Market| STBs| Streaming Video| Virtual Reality

Brazil Chooses LCEVC Codec Enhancement – UHD HDR @ 5 Mbps

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We’ve been following V-Nova and its Codecs for a number of years now. Just a couple of weeks ago, we missed a release from the firm that said that MPEG-5 LCEVC …

Tags:Brazil| Codecs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| UltraHD & 4K