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Southeast Asia to be world’s top laptop producer, surpassing China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There has been a movement away from assembling notebook PCs in China and the MIC now forecasts that Vietnam & Thailand will overtake China. 90% of the market of 160 million …

Tags:China| Manufacturing| Notebooks

Forecast: US to reach 317m SVoD subs by 2025

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The number of US Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) subscribers will grow from 203 million last year to 317 million by 2025. Netflix will add 10 million subscribers, but the big winners will …

Tags:Streaming Video| SVOD| USA

How to Make a Monitor Lift

by Bob Raikes

What They Say How to make a pop-up monitor holder. What We Think When I’m not hunched over my computer, I like to hack away at bits of wood, so I couldn’t resist including …

Tags:Desktop Monitors

Z Fold 2 Teardown: 3rd Time’s The Charm?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit took the latest Z Fold 3 and tore it down. It found that the hinge is much simpler than previous foldable devices but didn’t like the repairability because of the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Teardowns

Samsung Maintains U.S. Market Share Lead in Smart TV at 32%

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung is still the biggest smart TV supplier in the US (with 32%), but TCL has now gone past Vizio to take the #2 spot with 14% of sales according to …

Inside Facebook’s race to build super-smart AR glasses you’ll actually want to wear

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Part of the reason that Facebook is so committed to AR is that the company feels it missed out on the creation of the current wave of hardware platforms and wants …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta

Super-resolution imaging with diagonal sampling

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists from Peking University recognised that one of the limits on digital photography resolution, along with ccd pixel size, is that lenses are circular, while sensors are all rectangular. Sampling usually …

Tags:Digital Photography| R&D (Research & Development)| Resolution

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