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3D & 8K: A Marriage Made In Las Vegas

by Pete Putman

My schedule at CES can keep me so busy that I rarely venture away from the Las Vegas Convention Center. The show also occupies the Sands Expo Center, where additional exhibits fill the show …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Dimenco| Stereo 3D| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Samsung is Lighting Up NYC, One LED Wall At A Time

by Pete Putman

A couple of weeks ago, I joined a group of trade journalists in New York City to get stuck in traffic in lower Manhattan. Just kidding! We were actually on a tour of several …

Designing Better Hot Cakes

by Pete Putman

Let’s face it. The smartphone market is in the blahs right now. Sales are tailing off as consumers hang onto older models, not convinced to spend hundreds of dollars for the latest gizmo that …

Tags:Samsung| Smartphones

Losing the TV Remote Control (Intentionally)

by Pete Putman

The term “television” today means something very different than it did sixty years ago. Back then, the television experience was best described as radio with pictures. You turned on the power, raised the volume, …

Tags:Remote Controls| TVs (TV Sets)| Voice Input

True Facts

by Pete Putman

A recent post on LinkedIn led me to write this DD, and it has to do with 4K video and imaging. Or, at least how marketing types have redefined it as “True” 4K or …

Tags:3LCD| DLP| Resolution| UltraHD & 4K

When Politics and Displays Collide, Part II

by Pete Putman

A few weeks ago, I detailed the on-again/off-again plans of Foxconn chairman Terry Gou to build an LCD fab in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin – an attempt largely viewed as an attempt to stay on …

Tags:Duty| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Video Walls

Selling Wisconsin By the Panel

by Pete Putman

Politics and technology intersect more often than you might think. And no better example of this can be found than the announcement in 2018 by Terry Gou of Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) that he …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| TV Set Market| USA

DisplayPort 2.0: Here We Go with the Numbers Game Again…

by Pete Putman

Last Monday, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) held a press briefing on the latest iteration of DisplayPort, version 2.0. Display interfacing standards remain both a fascination and pet peeve for me; the former …

Tags:DisplayPort| HDMI| Interfaces| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD & 4K

Samsung’s Onyx LED Cinema Screen Comes to Houston

by Pete Putman

Last Tuesday, I was one of a group of journalists invited to the grand opening of Samsung’s latest Onyx LED cinema screen, this time at the Star Cinema Grill in Richmond, Texas, just outside …

Tags:LED Cinema| Samsung| USA

On Samsung, LEDs, and Market Positioning

by Pete Putman

Two weeks ago, I was invited to the grand opening of Samsung’s newest EBC facility in Irvine, California; a hop, skip, and a jump from John Wayne Airport. (No kidding, I walked about 15 …

Samsung’s 2019 TV Line Event: “Hey, we sell Ultra HDTVs too, remember?”

by Pete Putman

Last Thursday, I traveled up to Samsung’s QA Labs in Pine Brook, NJ to get the “skinny” on the company’s 2019 TV lineup. The event was very much low-key, taking place in one of …

Tags:Anti Glare| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Wide Viewing Angles

“Stop Watching So Much Television. You’ll Ruin Your Eyes!”

by Pete Putman

Those of us old enough to remember when a 19-inch black-and-white television was a “big screen” know this mantra by heart. Back then, in the US, there were three TV networks plus a few …

Tags:Cable| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA