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Roland Garros UHD Availability is Mixed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Roland-Garros tennis tournament in Paris has been a popular event for testing new TV technologies (e.g. HDTV via MPEG4 in 2006, 3D broadcast in 2010, UltraHD in 2013 etc) and …

Tags:France| FTA (Free to Air)| Satellite| Sports and Stadiums| Terrestrial (DTT)

ETRI Develops MicroLED Film

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat tip to MicroLED-Info for pointing me to a Korean language page that outlines how ETRI in Korea has made a film that can be used to hold microLEDs with transfer …

Tags:Korea| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Paperlike Offers E Ink Monitor via Indiegogo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dasung has offered a 25.3″ E Ink monitor, the PaperLike 253 via Indiegogo and had raised $175K for a flexible goal with 24 days left. The monitor, which has 3200 x …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Desktop Monitors| E Ink

AUO Supplies miniLED Panel for Acer DisplayHDR 1000 Notebook

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AUO said that it has worked with Acer to develop a new Predator Helios 500 Gaming Notebook with a 17.3 UltraHD resolution display using miniLED (with its AmLED adaptive miniLED technology) …

Tags:Acer| AUO| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| MiniLED| Notebooks

Not much news

Not Much News Today….

by Bob Raikes

What They Say It’s the Memorial Day holiday in the US today, and I had the very unusual experience of getting no English Language press releases today from my main press release source! What …

CineWorld To Add 100 ScreenX Theatres

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Associated Press (AP) said that the CineWorld cinema chain in the UK plans to add 100 new ScreenX multi-screen installations to its locations. That will boost the number of ScreenX installations …

Tags:Cinema| UK (United Kingdom)

Jade Bird Displays Interviewed by Yole

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Analysts Yole Développement discussed the developoment of microdisplay microLEDs with Jade Bird Displays (JBD) and the companies covered a number of interesting points about the competition between microLED, LCOS and DLP …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Vuzix

India Eyes LCD Investment

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A number of sources, including Digitimes, have reported that the Indian government is looking to invest to build LCD production in the country. The Secretary of MeitY (the Ministry of Electronics …

Tags:India| Investment| LCD Fabs

The New Atomos Shinobi 7 Is Here

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Australian field monitor developer, Atomos, has a new 7″ Shinobi 7 touch monitor with calibrated peak brightness of 2,200 cd/m² and claimed to be able to show 10+ stops of dynamic …

Tags:Field Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range

A New Compression Paradigm

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SMPTE interviewed Matthew Goldman, a SMPTE Fellow and past SMPTE President and previously with MediaKind, about developments in codecs and why there is more proliferation of different technology. He pointed out …

Tags:Codecs| OTT Video

Sony’s unmanned Malaysian factory to slash TV production costs  

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Sony has ‘sharply’ expanded the automation in its TV factory in Malaysia to compete more effectively with Korean and Chinese brands. The aim is to reduce production costs …

Tags:Production Technology| sony| TVs (TV Sets)