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Sky Q to offer live sport in HDR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UK’s dominant pay TV firm, Sky, has said that it will supply over 200 hours of Olympic coverage in UltraHD and with HDR on its dedicated 4K channel. It will …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Satellite| UK (United Kingdom)| UltraHD

Verizon’s Smart Display is real and responds to ‘Hi, Verizon’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Verizon has a new smart speaker based on the Amazon Alexa platform. It has an 8″ 1280 x 800 display with 4GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. There is a …

Tags:Voice Input

TV Sales Boom in Japan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported data from the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) that highlighted good growth in TV sales in 2021, with volumes of TVs at 2.79 million sets up …

Tags:Japan| TV Set Market

Apple to likely overtake Samsung in OLED smartphone shipment this year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting UBI Research, The Elec said that Apple used more OLEDs in its smartphones than Samsung in the first half of the year (between 60 and 64 million against 55 to …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartphones

Blame COVID for a lack of AR and VR at the Tokyo Olympics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Protocol blog pointed to Covid as a prime reason for a lack of AR and VR content from the Olympics in Tokyo. USA Today had planned an AR experience around …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Augmented Reality| Japan| Olympics| Sports and Stadiums

MicroLEDs Moving From Lab To Fab

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Semiconductor Engineering spoke to Eric Virey of Yole Développement who highlighted that a number of breakthroughs are needed for a volume breakthrough for microLED – not least a need to “reduce …

Tags:Manufacturing| MicroLED

Researchers demonstrated a self-healing crystalline material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A report published in the Science Journal covered work by Indian scientists to create a new crystalline material that is said to be capable of self-healing, but might be usable to …

Tags:Materials| R&D (Research & Development)

The next iPad mini: High-end specs in a tiny tablet

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacWorld summarised the latest rumours about an iPad Mini re-design. The design for the sixth generation could look like a smaller iPad Air 9to5Mac reports that it will use an A15 …

Tags:Apple| Forecasts| iPhone| Smartphone Market| tablets

New metasurface can tune laser light without additional components

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A team of researchers at Harvard have developed a metasurface that can tune the amplitude, phase, and polarization properties of laser light, including the wavelength. No additional components are needed. The …

Tags:Holography| Laser| R&D (Research & Development)

Altice USA launches Android TV streaming device

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Altice of the USA launched a broadband STB that will be available at prices from zero to $5 per month, depending on the service. What We Think There was a time …

Tags:STBs| Streaming Video

Strategy Analytics: Global Smart TV Household Ownership to Exceed 50% by 2026 (2)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics forecast that globally 50% of the installed base of TVs will be smartTVs by 2026. 34% of households had the technology at the end of 2020, equating to 665 …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Operating Systems| Smart TV

Apple Sees Defective Laptop Display Claims Tossed, For Now

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Law360 reports that the proposed class action against Apple over display defects in the MacBook Pro notebook has been dismissed. (Judge Reveals Mac PC Display Problems Apple ‘Tried To Hide’). The …

Tags:Apple| Litigation| USA| warranty