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Global LED Demand Set to Rebound in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Trendforce put out a forecast for revenues from the LED industry, which the firm expects to grow by 3.8% to $15.7 billion in 2021. The firm said that LED backlighting had …

Tags:Forecasts| LED| Market Data| MiniLED

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 7 – HLG And PQ

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Broadcast Bridge published an interesting article on the differences between PQ- and HLG-based HDR EOTFs and contrasts them with the traditional gamma curves used in content development. What We Think …

Tags:Broadcast| Colour Grading| HDR - High Dynamic Range

Twinkly has an addressable Display…

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I can’t remember how I got to it, but I was impressed with the Twinkly LED lights for festive trees and decorations. The system uses a smartphone camera to map its …

Tags:Game Playing| LED

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra S Pen support confirmed by FCC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that the FCC has spotted a model SMG998 from Samsung, believed to be the Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone in a listing by the FCC. What We Think There …

Tags:Pen Input| Samsung| Smartphones

Behind the Daqri Failure

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol published its most popular articles for 2020 and included one that dug into the falure of Daqri, the developer of helmets with augmented reality integrated. In February, the blog spoke …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Virtual Reality

A closer look at DXOMARK Display testing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXOMark released more details of the testing procedure for its DXOMark for smartphone displays. What We Think I have used the DXO software for raw conversion of digital photography for some …

Tags:Smartphones| Testing

Links Week Ending 1st Jan 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 this week. Matthew Mancinelli puts 4KUniverse up for sale, wants $75m for 51% …

Tags:Game Playing| Outdoor Displays| Projectors| UltraHD & 4K

Thanks to all our Subscribers!

by Bob Raikes

Thanks to all our subscribers that have supported our move to a ‘freemium’ model. We’d still like to boost the number of subscribers, so if you have colleagues that you think might find our …