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LG flexes its display tech with $100,000 rollable TV on sale this month

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei has reported that LG Electronics will finally start shipping its much trailed rollable 65″ TV but at $100,000, a higher price than had been previously expected. It will be supplied …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)

UHD Alliance Announces Amazon Prime, Hisense Support for Filmmaker Mode

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UHD Alliance said that Amazon Prime plans to introduce support for Filmmaker mode in 2021. It also said that Hisense would be the seventh TV company to support the mode …

Tags:Cinema| UltraHD Alliance

Vivo X50 Pro+ Camera review: Aiming for the top

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXOMark reviewed the Vivo X50 Pro+ phone and found it has a very good camera, hat lands it in third place behind the Huawei P40 Pro and the top-scoring Xiaomi Mi …

Tags:Cameras| Smartphones

Set-top Boxes: Further Improvements For UIs, UHD And HDR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say STBs are being developed and upgraded to meet the need for support of technology features such as HDR and UltraHD and are also being designed to try to minimise additional costs …

Tags:ATSC| Smart TV| STBs| Streaming Dongles

Finally full exhibition halls again

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Infocomm Beijing 2020 took place with 30,000 visitors and 450 exhibitors after being postponed from April What We Think It is good to see exhibitions happening again, but it would take …

Tags:Events

Google launches new Chromecast and Google TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has updated its Chromecast Dongle and it has upgraded the product to include an IR/bluetooth remote control and a new user interface. The specification is similar to the Chromecast Ultra, …

Tags:Google| Streaming Dongles

HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition VR Headset Captures Your Facial Expressions, Heart Rate

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP has announced the Omnicept Solution, a version of its new Reverb G2 Omnicept VR headset which is aimed at B2B applications. The headset includes an SDK for development of applications …

Tags:HP Inc| Virtual Reality

Google Pixel 5 release date, price, specs and big camera upgrades

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google released its Pixel 5 and 4a 5G at $699/$799 and $499, respectively. The Pixel 5 has a 6″ 1080 x 2340 OLED with 90Hz refresh, a 765G Snapdragon and a …

Tags:Google| Smartphones

Thunderbolt 4 products fix a big USB-C problem

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Other World Computing will ship a dock with a Thunderbolt 4 port for $150 before the end of the year. The big advantage is that it can convert a single Thunderbolt …

Tags:Thunderbolt| USB

Foxconn Developing microLED AR smart glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Foxconn is developing microLED-based AR smart glasses with Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL) as part of a three year ITRI project. The EOSRL devices are said …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foxconn (Honhai)| MicroLED

Lenovo Takes Orders for X1 Foldable PC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that Lenovo is now taking orders for the ThinkPad X1 Fold. It has a 13″ foldable display. It comes with Intel’s Lakefield processors, two USB-C ports and a …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Lenovo| PCs

Interested in Computer Graphics?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The BBC made a documentary about computer graphics in its excellent Horizon series – in 1981. What We Think It’s an interesting item to view again! This was when I was …

Tags:Graphics Processing