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Sling TV Becomes First Pay TV Operator to Debut ‘Watch Party’ Feature

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sling TV has introduced a ‘watch party’ feature to allow enhanced viewing of streamed content with the addition of text and video alongside the main video images. It needs a Chrome …

Tags:Streaming Video

Varjo and KIA Motors: Driving the Future with XR Collaboration in Car Design

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Finnish XR specialist, Varjo, is working with Kia and using Autodesk VRED to help with Kia’s design process. The article describes how the Varjo XR-1 is being used to switch realities. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive

Got 3 Hours to Kill?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say This is a video (3 hours 21 minutes) of Huawei’s Developer Conference Keynote. What We Think If Huawei is important to you, it might be worth a look. The link below …

Tags:Huawei

ORF launches Ultra HD trial via DVB-T2 in Austria

by Bob Raikes

What They Say National broadcaster, ORF, of Austria has launched a trial of broadcasting UltraHD content using DVB-T2 technology. The broadcaster hopes to increase the content sent this way. What We Think A CI+ …

Tags:Austria| Broadcast| DVB-T & T2| UltraHD (4KTV)

Amazon announces new Fire TV sticks with HD+HDR, Dolby Atmos

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon has new Fire TV sticks. The Lite version ($29.99) has FullHD with HDR (HLG, HDR10, HDR10+) while the Fire TV stick ($39.99) adds Dolby Atmos. Although the sticks support HDR …

Tags:Amazon| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video

Samsung and LG Hit with Smart TV Tech Patent Suit by SoftBank IP Subsidiary

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DivX LLC (described in the article as a ‘notorious patent litigator’) has filed suits an a Delaware court claiming that LG and Samsung and Realtek, the semiconductor company (which is described …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Litigation| Patents| Samsung

BOE aims to overtake Samsung in OLED in 5 years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that BOE wants to get 40% share of the flexible OLED market by 2024, based on comments at a display event in China. The firm believes it will …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Smartphones

Samsung Display claims QD display plan is on schedule

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Samsung Display confirmed at an industry event that QD OLED development is on track. The company held a ceremony in July to celebrate the installation of equipment …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung Display

MicroLED production soon also in Europe?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In a recent ‘Avixa Power Hour’, Chris Riegel of Stratcache forecast that microLED will be very important in the future of digital signage in around three years. A key advantage will …

Tags:MicroLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Google Updates Android 11 for low-latency codecs, variable refresh, new media controls & ‘Display Cutout’ support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has released Android 11. There are a lot of changes, detailed in the linked article. For displays, changes include quicker connections to TVs, support for ‘hole-punch’ and ‘waterfall’ displays. There …

Tags:Android| Smartphones

Internet: Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The BBC reported that a village in a rural part of Wales, in the west of the GB, suffered problems with broadband connections, starting at 7.00am every morning. Technicians checked the …

Tags:Radio| Standards

Tenet: Christopher Nolan explains why they crashed a real 747 instead of using CG

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Well, it hasn’t got much to do with displays, but I was intrigued by an article that explained that to make a scene in the Christopher Nolan film “Tenet”, the team …

Tags:Cinema| Graphics Software