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TVs Likely to Lead 8K Content Push

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A panel at the SMPTE 2020 virtual event decided that although there are few good ways of getting 8K into the living room at the moment, but it may be a …

Tags:Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD & 4K

Useful Links for the Week

by Bob Raikes

Here are links to some of the articles that have built up over the week and didn’t ‘make the cut’. How Joe Biden’s drone light show came together — and what it could mean …

Exclusive: Huawei to sell phone unit for $15 billion

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei is reported by Reuters and others to be planning to sell its Honor budget smartphone brand to a consortium for around $15 billion. Members of the consortium include handset distributor …

Tags:China| Huawei| Mergers & Acquisitions

Forget Galaxy S21 — Samsung’s ‘surround display’ phone looks incredible

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LetsgoDigital, the Dutch website, has done a good job again with making renders from patent submissions. This time, it has some great images of a new concept from Samsung with a …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Samsung| Smartphones

Forget 5G. This Is the Technology Apple Is Really Betting On With the iPhone 12.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article on investment site ‘The Motley Fool’ suggests that the inclusion of Lidar in the iPhone 12 Pro is a bigger deal than many have recognised. The technology can create …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Apple| Augmented Reality| iPhone| Mixed Reality

Apple Adds Own Chip Option to Macs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has launched three new Macs that use its own chips, rather than those of Intel, which it has used since 2006. The architecture will be based on Arm technology. Arm, …

Tags:Apple| Arm| Semiconductors

HDR is a mess, and porn isn’t going to save us this time

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The article points out that HDR is a mess with five incompatible formats HLG (for broadcast) HDR10 (open, based on PQ) HDR10+ (open, based on PQ with dynamic metadata) Dolby Vision …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range

VVC 45% Better than HEVC, Says MPEG

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MPEG said that it has completed a verification test assessment of the new Versatile Video Coding (VVC or H.266) standard for ultra-high definition (UHD) content with standard dynamic range. According to …

Tags:AV1 Codec| HEVC (H.265)| MPEG| VVC (H.266)

HannStar Display to start developing microLED display panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Hannstar Display has bought production facilities, previously used for touch sensors, from HannsTouch Solutions for $95.5m. The facility will be used to make miniLED and microLED displays. What …

Tags:Hannstar (Hannspree)| LCD Fabs| MicroLED| MiniLED

Halide Perovskite Metasurface to aid AR and optoelectronic devices

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at the ITMO University in Russia have developed an approach based on perovskites that exploit the concept of metasurfaces (Developments in Metasurface Technology May Enable Ultra-Thin Lenses) to potentially create …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Metasurfaces| Optics| Perovskite

LG and Unruly offer smart TV inventory

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Video advertising platform Unruly has announced a global partnership with LG Electronics that enables advertisers around the world to access native smart TV ad placements through its supply-side platform (SSP), UnrulyX. …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Smart TV

Acer Reports Strong October Result

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer continues to do really well despite, or perhaps because of, the pandemic and reported revenues up 43.2% on a year ago for October. Business highlights include: YoY revenue for notebook …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data