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Google Assistant Can Run Your 2020 Samsung SmartTV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung & Google announced that Google’s Assistant voice control technology will be available Samsung 2020 smart TV models, including the 2020 8K and 4K QLED models, the 2020 Crystal UHD TVs, …

Tags:Google| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Voice Input

Evoca Broadcasts 4K Insight TV Via ATSC 3.0

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Evoca, a TV service provider, has set up a 24 hour OTA UltraHD broadcast system in Boise, Idaho. “We built Evoca for the more than 50 million U.S. households in mid-sized …

Tags:ATSC| UltraHD

Konka to Release Mini LED Backlit TV, More Mini LED Products Entering the Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Konka has confirmed that it will release a 75″ 8K TV using a miniLED backlight according to LEDInside. The TV is said to have 20,000 LEDs in 5184 dimming zones and …

Tags:Konka| LCD Backlights| MiniLED| TVs (TV Sets)

Apple Launches IPhone 12 With Some Surprises

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC’s Ross Young posted a blog article commenting on the Apple iPhone 12 launch and expressing surprise at the inclusion of 5G mmWave. The article points out that the cameras are …

Tags:Apple| Glass| iPhone

TCL to invest $6.8 billion, plans to start producing inkjet-printed OLED TVs in Guangzhou in 2024

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED-Info reports that TCL’s CSOT business will start to ship inkjet-made OLED panels for TVs in 2024 What We Think TCL has been working with JOLED. There was lots of coverage …

Tags:China| CSOT| InkJet Deposition| OLED TVs| TCL

TV Market Up in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Gfu in Germany has reported on the TV market in Germany. The value of the market was up to €2.6 billion over the first three quarters of the year and …

Tags:Germany| TV Set Market

Displaymate Looks at OnePlus 8T

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies reviewed the display on the OnePlus 8T smartphone and found that it is a very good display with up to 1,090 cd/m² peak brightness. Like …

Tags:OLEDs| Samsung Display| Smartphones| Testing| Visual Quality

CEA LETI prints pixelated hologram on miniature 6 x 6mm component

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reports that scientists at CEA-LETI in Grenoble (it seems to be LETI week – probably related to a virtual open day it recently held) have developed a 6 x 6mm …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Optics

Study: Smart TVs raise piracy and privacy concerns

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The article gives some interesting data on how (US) consumers view the sharing of data to SmartTV operators. There are also some interesting numbers on how viewers feel about video piracy. …

Tags:Privacy| Smart TV

Netflix Develops lower bitrates and higher quality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Netflix published a blog post to say that it is to use its latest codec schemes including per-title encode optimisations and per-shot dynamic optimisation on its back catalogue to reduce the …

Tags:Codecs| Netflix| Streaming Video

Some Smartphone Market Items

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Here are three links with useful news on the smartphone market Strategy Analytics said that Samsung Captured 88 Percent Market-Share of 5G Smartphone Shipments in Western Europe in H1 2020 Report: …

Tags:5G| Huawei| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market

MicroVision Introduces The World’s Smallest And Lightest Display Module For Smart Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A post on Seeking Alpha (an investors’ site) said that MicroVision has released a very small and light display module for AR glasses. The article has quite a lot of information …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microvision