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Amazon Echo Show 15 Gets FireTV

by Bob Raikes

  What They Say When Amazon released its latest set of products recently, one of the features that it updated was to add Fire TV to the Echo Show 15 smart displays, effectively turning …

Tags:Amazon| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Voice Input

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Amazon’s Newest Kindle Comes With a Stylus for Writing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon has a new Kindle Scribe that will add stylus support with a device that will snap magnetically to the 10.2″ E Ink display in the Premium version. A basic pen …

Tags:Amazon| EPD (Electrophoretic)| eReaders

MSI Highlights QD OLED and Adds Touch Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MSI has again highlighted its 34″ QD-OLED panel-based gaming monitor in a global product launch. (Dell Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED Review & MSI Joins In)  It’s base specification is similar to the Dell/Alienware …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| MSI| PCs| QD OLEDs| Touch Displays

Links Week Ending 30th September 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 end of this week. There are a lot again as I was …

Tags:Apple| audio| Augmented Reality| Broadcast| Digital Photography| Digital Signage| DisplayLink| Foldable Devices| Forecasts| Germany| LG Electronics (LGE)| Litigation| Market Data| MicroLED| Microsoft| Notebooks| Pay TV| QSRs & Menu Boards| Samsung| Sky| Smart TV| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)

Intel and Samsung are getting ready for ‘slidable’ PCs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In its Innovation 2022 event, Intel showed a prototype slidable/rollable OLED-based PC which opens out from a 13″ diagonal to 17″. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced JS Choi of Samsung Display …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Intel| R&D (Research & Development)| Rollable Devices| Rollable Displays| Samsung

Alienware Adds Lower Cost QD-OLED Gaming Monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dell’s Alienware brand has released a lower cost version of its 34″ 21:9 QD-OLED monitor, the AW3423DWF. (an F on the end of the previous AW3423DW). The display specification is the same as …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing

Broadcast Monitors at IBC 2022

by Bob Raikes

Last week I got to my most recent trade show, the IBC or International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, 2022 edition. It starts just a few days after IFA and looks at the other end …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Colour Critical Monitors| Dell| Dual Panel LCDs| HP Inc| IBC 2022| Testing

Leveraging The Avixa Image System Contrast Ratio (ISCR) Standard

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AV trade association and event and training supplier, Avixa, has released a new standard for Image System Contrast Ratio (ISCR), aimed at helping those specifying and installing AV systems to define …

Tags:Avixa (was Infocomm)| Contrast| Pro AV

LG OLED TVs at Bargain Prices at Best Buy

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge spotted that Best Buy in the US has reduced its pricing on LG OLED TVs, with a 55″ B2 OLED reduced from $1,600 to $1,000, a reduction of 38%. …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)