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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)

HP’s first Intel 11th-gen laptops use recycled ocean-bound plastics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP has new 13″, 14″ and 15″ Pavilion laptops that use 11th Generation Intel Core CPUs and Iris XE graphics. They also are among the firm’s first laptops to use post-consumer-recycled …

Tags:Environment| HP Inc| Notebooks

Xbox Series X/S pre-orders now available at these retailers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microsoft’s new XBox Series X and Series S consoles will be available on November 10th from a number of retailers in North America and Europe. They will cost £339/€499/$499 and £249/€299/$299, …

Tags:Consoles| Microsoft| Retail| xBox

Could VR help universities teach students?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Virtual labs may change the future of science education. Dangerous subjects can be studied and animations and simulations can be used. What We Think The BBC found the system ‘a bit …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality

Samsung: UK Smart TV streaming overtakes linear viewership

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Ads Europe said that streaming on the brand’s smartTVs now account for more watching than linear TV in the UK. Streaming got to 59% for the first time, and was …

Tags:Streaming Video| TV Viewing

How many desktop PCs have been ‘furloughed’ in the UK?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A third of UK desktop PCs have been left unused during the present Covid crisis according to research and over a fifth are likely to be unused next year. Just under …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

LG Display to invest in OLED line for Apple in Q1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that LG is going to make extra investments at its Paju facility to build a new line, E6-3, to make G6 substrates (1500 x 1850mm) to support supply …

Watch a demo of Royole’s new folding phone, on sale today for roughly $1,500

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Royole announced its second generation Flexpai 2 in China at 9,988 yuan ($1,470). It is out folding, like the first one and has a 7.8″ 1920 x 1440 display and is …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones