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Cancellation of DSS Europe 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis and ISE have cancelled DSS Europe 2021, which was due to take place in September. A combination of a rise in Covid tricter safety and health requirements for major events …

Tags:Events

Fovi3D Gives a Deep Dive on Light Field Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to Jon Peddie for pointing me to a great resource that he found that covers the topic of light field displays. The 60 page pdf from Fovi3D can be …

Tags:Light Field Displays

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Agisoft Metashape Pro and 3D PluraView monitors enable 3D-stereo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We missed it at the time a couple of weeks ago, but Schneider Digital of Germany said that it has worked with Agisoft to support its Metashape Pro software which creates …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Desktop Monitors| Polariser-based 3D

Daktronics LED launch leverages new technology  

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Daktronics has added new small pitch LED with 0.7 and 0.9mm pitch (UltraHD at 138″/165″ equivalent) as well as 1.2 and 1.5mm. The NPN-6400 product line is built on Daktronics proprietary …

Tags:Daktronics| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 Tries to Steal Samsung’s Thunder

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi tried to steal some thunder from Samsung by announcing its Mi Mix 4 just before the Samsung Unpacked event. The Mi Mix 4 is a rigid smartphone with a 6.67″ …

Tags:China| Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras| Xiaomi

Samsung Unpacks New Watches & Phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung opened its Unpacked event with its new smartwatches, talking up improved health, body composition and sleep tracking and highlighting the benefits of its collaboration with Google on software. (Android and …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Pen Input| Samsung| Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras

Google Chromebook slows, hinting at flagging COVID PC boom  

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Chromebook makers have been ‘slashing’ their orders for components by ‘at least 20%’. That could mean 10 million or so fewer Chromebooks in the market this year. One …

Tags:Chromebooks| Forecasts| Market Data

TCL Offers Google TV Option

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL, which has previously used Roku as its high end sets, with some lower end Android-based sets, is bringing TV sets powered by Google TV to the market in its 5- …

Tags:Google| Roku| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

Huawei P50 Pro Display review: New score leader

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXOMark already liked the cameras in the Huawei P50 Pro smartphone and now it has tested the display which is a 6.6″ 2700 x 1228 pixels and refresh up to 120Hz …

Tags:Huawei| OLEDs| Smartphones| Testing

SMPTE Looks at HDR – and a way of Quantifying the H-K Impact

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SMPTE’s Motion Imaging Journal has taken a special look at HDR this month and has a number of interesting articles on the topic. Our eye was particularly caught by this one …

Tags:Colour (Color)| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Human Visual System (HVS)