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Upgrade to Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As well as introducing new Amazon-branded TVs, the firm has updated the Fire TV Stick 4K. It has a new quad-core 1.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM to give more fluid …

Tags:Amazon| Streaming Dongles

Links Week Commencing 13th 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 first part of this week. The best Dolby Vision movies to test …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| China| Dolby Vision| LED| Outdoor Displays| Satellite| Semiconductor Market| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TSMC

MSI: Limited edition Laptop with miniLED backlight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MSI has a new notebook, designed with Hiroshi Fujiwara, a fashion designer. The notebook has a 16″ 2560 x 1600 LCD with a miniLED backlight, DisplayHDR 1000 certificationd, DCI-P3 and refresh …

Tags:MiniLED| Notebooks

HDR: Part 32 – Creative Technology – Film Scanning

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Broadcast Bridge wrote an article about the continuing use of film scanners to digitise film-recorded content. It has lots of information on telecine and datacine (for digital intermediates) machines. It …

Tags:35mm Film| Movies & Content

Epson showcases EB-PU1000 Series at Plasa 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Epson announced its EB-PU1000 and EB-PU2010 series projectors earlier this year but has now shown them at the recent Plasa 2021 event. The 3LCD units produce from 6,000 to 10,000 ANS …

Tags:Epson| Events| Laser Phosphor Projectors

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IDMS v1.1 Update

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We were lucky enough to get a one-to-one discussion on the new IDMS v1.1 with Brian Berkeley (ICDM Has IDMS V1.1 and Other Acronyms). Now the SID’s ICDM is running a …

Tags:Events| Testing

Samsung Display Stretchable AMOLED Display Gets Onto YouTube

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Display talked about how it sees the future of flexible displays at the SID in June. Now the video from that talk has been released on YouTube. What We Think …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Stretchable Materials| Stretched Displays

TCL: Details on the 8K QLED TV with miniLED backlight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL is bringing its miniLED 8K TVs to Europe and Prad.de reports that the sets use the OD Zero technology that TCL outlined at CES. (TCL Offers Cool Display Innovations at …

Tags:MiniLED| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

Lenovo Unveils 27-Inch Thunderbolt 4 Monitor with Built-In Dock

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo has a new monitor, the P27u-20, a 27″ unit with UltraHD and optimised for WCG with 99.1% of DCI-P3 and 99.5% of AdobeRGB and DisplayHDR 400 certification from an 8 …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| Lenovo| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Nanosys xQDEF Gets to MP

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on the Nanosys development of diffuser plates with integrated QDs (xQDEF), replacing the separate components used in QDEF architecture TV sets and monitors up to now. (Nanosys, QDs and …

Tags:Diffusers| Nanosys| Optics| Quantum Dots