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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

Samba TV’s Q4’21 State of Viewership Report is Here!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samba TV released three reports on the ‘State of Viewership’ in TV in the US, the UK and Germany and in Australia. The reports look at the reach and impressions of …

Tags:Europe| Market Data| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

VR Headset Round Table Looks at AR v VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say XR Today published a ’round table’ of views about the XR industry with representatives of HTC Vive, Varjo, Arthur and Lenovo. Most of it is uncontroversial although Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

DSCC Updates on LCD TV Panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, DSCC put out a blog post highlighting the slowing down of TV LCD panel prices as price gets close to cash cost for some panel makers. Inventories are …

Tags:Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| TV Set Market

Hypervsn launches new-generation holographic displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hybervsn, which makes virtual displays based on spinning LEDs, has developed a new model that is larger and lighter, with a 0.65mm pitch and is said to produce 3,000 cd/m² of …

Tags:Digital Signage| LED

Nanosys Display Show Highlights QD-OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Nanosys Display Show on YouTube, hosted by Brian Berkeley, spoke to Samsung about the QD-OLED technology that Samsung Display, Dell and Sony showed at CES 2022. Chirag Shah of Samsung …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Nanosys| QD OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| WOLED (White OLED)

BMW Expands MyModes Interfaces

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Among the items announced by BMW at CES, there was a boost in the number of different interfaces for its BMW My Modes system. There are now five settings, up from …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2022| Software