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HP Adds Windows 11 Devices

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP added some new PCs that are optimised for Windows 11. There is a 34″ All-in-One desktop PC in the HP Envy line with a 21:9 aspect ratio and a ‘5K’ …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| HP Inc| UltraHD| Windows

Sky ‘planning own range of smart TVs’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sky TV is reported by the Financial Times to be planning to launch its own range of smartTVs. That would be in line with the move by its parent company, Comcast, …

Tags:Comcast| Sky| STBs| Streaming Video

Report: 25% of global advanced STBs running on Android TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dataxis reported the market shares of advanced set-top box middleware in the installed base. It highlighted that Android TV has dropped from 40% in 2015 to around 25% now, as RDK, …

Tags:Android| Operating Systems| Roku| STBs

AR & the Military

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist ($) had an article about the way that AR is being used by the military, especially the US Army which has a big project that it calls IVAS (Integrated …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence

Links Week Ending 24th September 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. ‘An Invitation – A Colour the Trails …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Batteries| Europe| Germany| Interactive Displays| Investment| LG Electronics (LGE)| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| SVOD| TVs (TV Sets)| USB

Redmi G 2021 Notebooks Unveiled

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi released two new gaming notebooks under the Redmi brand. One has an Intel processor and the other has an AMD CPU and they both have Nvidia RTX graphics (RTX3050 and …

Tags:Game Playing| Notebooks| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

LG 32″ OLED Now at B&H Photo (although back-ordered)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG has been talking about its new 27″ and 32″ inkjet printed OLED monitors using panels from JOLED for some time. Now the 32″ version is available from B&H Photo, our …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| JOLED| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED Monitors

TCL Foldable

TCL Foldable Won’t be Launched

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has got a long way towards making a folding phone, but told the Verge that it saw an opportunity for the category. However, it is not currently able to bring …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung

Researchers Boost Red Perovskite Efficiency and Lifetime

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Ural Federal University, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia, working with scientists in China have published a paper in Advanced Functional Materials that explains how a group developed nanostructures (hemispheres) several nanometers …

Tags:PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)| Russia

Amazon Upgrades Paperwhite Kindle

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon has updated the 2018 Kindle Paperwhite eReader to Version 5. It has a larger 6.8″ display (1430 x 1080 – 300ppi) with narrower bezels, and has more LEDs (up to …

Tags:Amazon| E Ink| eReaders

CEDIA Attendance Clobbered By COVID

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sixteen-nine.net reported that attendance for the Cedia trade show was ‘utterly clobbered’ by the virus, with attendees down from 20,000 two years ago to 1,400 this year and exhibitors down from …

Tags:Events| Home Cinema| Home Theatre