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Intel Develops New Technique for Photorealistic Games

by Bob Raikes

What They Say RoadtoVR reports on work done by Intel to use machine learning to boost the photorealism of generated ray-traced graphics using machine learning based on data from actual captures by a dashboard …

Tags:Graphics Processing| ray tracing

SID Reveals Those behind the DIA Awards

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The SID has published more details and details of its Display Industry Annual Awards. It includes pictures of the teams involved. What We Think At one time, the Display of the …

Tags:Awards

TCL goes big with 85-inch XL Collection 4K and 8K Roku TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has three new 85″ TVs in what it is calling its XL Collection. They are all based on the Roku TV platform. The three versions are: an UltraHD HDR set …

Tags:TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

Top-5 notebook vendors see combined shipments drop 4% in April

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes said that the top five notebook brands (excluding Apple) saw shipments down 4% in April, despite strong demand from education and enterprise. The main issue was component shortages. HP is …

Tags:Market Data| Notebooks| ODMs & OEMs

C|Net Tests Apple’s iPhone Colour Balance Feature

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple recently announced a system to use an iPhone to adjust the colour balance of a TV connected to an Apple TV box. CNet tested the system and found, basically, that …

Tags:Apple| Colour Management & Processing| Power Consumption| STBs

LG Expands Diagnostic Medical Monitor Line With New 12-megapixel Multimodality Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies, we missed a new diagnostic medical monitor from LG. The 31HN713D unit is a 31″ IPS unit with 4200 x 2800 resolution (12 megapixels) and up to 1080 cd/m² of …

Tags:Dicom Medical Calibration| LG Electronics (LGE)| Medical

SMPTE: “Trim the UHD codecs”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal is new paper “Ultrahigh-Definition Production Codecs – The Agony of Choice”. A team from the EBU and IRT pointed out that there are really too …

Tags:Codecs| Testing

Strategy Analytics Thinks Something is Growing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Research Analyst, Strategy Analytics won our prize this week for the most useless press release with the one titled: “Research firm Strategy Analytics, which had previously estimated 2021 to record 170 …

Tags:Market Data

Solving the ‘Too many sources of TV audio’ Problem In-restaurant

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Electronics has launched Pro:Centric Catena, a network management solution that allows customers to select from any available restaurant TV and listen to audio through their own smartphones and earbuds. This …

Tags:audio| LG Electronics (LGE)| Sports and Stadiums

Acer Reports 10 Year Profit High – Asus is Bullish

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer said that its operating income in Q1 2021 was $100.4 million, at 3.9% of revenue of $2.56 billion (up 46.5% YoY), the highest in 10 years. Separately, the firm said …

Tags:Acer| Asus| Financial Data| Forecasts| Notebooks

MPA Has Useful Data on Entertainment

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We missed it at the time, but the Motion Picture Association published a 63 page report on trends in entertainment in 2020. It’s no surprise that the report finds that the …

Tags:Cinema| Pay TV| Streaming Video

Samsung Display to lead national project to develop oxide TFT for 1,000ppi OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Samsung Display has been selected to head a Korean national project to develop oxide TFTs that have an order of magnitude improvement in electron mobility to allow …

Tags:Korea| Oxide TFTs| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung