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
Samsung TV Plus launches on phones after becoming a runaway success on TVs
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Samsung’s TV Plus streaming app is one of the five most-used apps and the second most popular free video app on Samsung smart TVs. The free channel is streaming “billions of …
Tags:Advertising| Samsung| Smart TV| Streaming Video
Plasmonic enhancement of stability and brightness in organic light-emitting devices
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Nature published a paper by scientists (from UDC) that reported that they have demonstrated an OLED that uses the decay rate enhancement of a plasmonic system to increase device stability (a …
Tags:OLED Materials| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)
