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DTG Drops Support for Standard Definition TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UK’s DTG, which coordinates the development of digital TV in the UK, has published its new requirements in version 12.5 of its D-Book. A mark of progress in the market …

Tags:DTG| HbbTV| UK (United Kingdom)

CTA announces NEXTGEN TV test suite for 2021 model year TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The US Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that it has a new test suite for 2021 year model TVs to be used to verify ATSC-3.0 TVs for the Nextgen TV logo. …

Tags:ATSC| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)

OPTO Taiwan 2020 Live Coverage – Innolux and PlayNitride Unveil New Micro LED Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LEDInside.com (Trendforce) has reported on Opto Taiwan, the only international optical and optoelectronic exhibition in Taiwan this year. MiniLED and microLED took centre stage, it said. Innolux showed a 24.6″ microLED …

Tags:Dual Panel LCDs| MicroLED| MiniLED| Taiwan

More financials for Q3 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There were lots more quarterly results this week. AUO reported sales up 15.3% on Q2, and up 4% on Q3 last year, with operating profit of $92.7 million, from a loss …

V-Nova completes MPEG-5 LCEVC standard

by Bob Raikes

What They Say V-Nova said that it has made “a milestone achievement” in MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC (Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding) being promoted to MPEG/ISO final draft international standard. V-Nova co-chaired the standard’s …

Tags:Codecs| MPEG| Streaming Video

TCL has developed a sideways rollable OLED TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has shown a prototype of an unrolling OLED TV, but unlike the LG rollable TV, it unrolls horizontally rather than vertically. What We Think This kind of concept does get …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLED TVs| TCL

Display Fab Utilization Continuing Strong in 2H 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog post that showed that LCD input was up 9% in Q3 at 76.4 million m² with an expectation that Q4 will be just 1% down on that …

Tags:Large LCD Supply

Apple TV is coming to Xbox consoles on November 10th

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I saw a stream of articles that highlighted that the Apple TV app will come to X-Box in a week or so. The Verge reports that it will also be on …

Tags:Apple| Consoles| PlayStation| Streaming Video| xBox

Izmir Hit by Earthquake

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The earthquake in Izmir, Turkey has seen more than 100 deaths, so our thoughts go out to those affected. Survivors were still being found yesterday (3rd November). What We Think As …

Tags:Beko| Europe

Modelling audiovisual sector revenue flows in the EU

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The European Audiovisual Observatory has published a report on how revenue flows in the audiovisual sector flow in the EU. The aim of the report was to develop a model for …

JCDecaux Loses New York Airport Contract

by Bob Raikes

What They Say JCDecaux has lost a long term contract to provide digital signage advertising at the four New York airports of JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and New York Stewart. The contract was won …

Tags:Aviation| ClearChannel| JCDecaux| USA

Google Requires AV1 Support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google will require Android TV device makers to support the AV1 codec from April 1st 2021. The latest Fire TVs (from Toshiba and others) have already got support and Netflix is …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Streaming Video