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NextVR to Deliver NBA Final Highlights Again in 2018

For the second consecutive year, NBA Digital and NextVR will offer fans free on-demand VR highlights of the 2018 NBA Finals, presented by YouTube TV. NextVR also announced the public availability of a new high-resolution format that it says will deliver “the most realistic and immersive VR experience yet”. On the day following each game, … Read more

Automotive IQ Releases Two New Reports

Automotive IQ has released a couple of free reports. “Machinery and man: Interact at your peril” explores the benefits and breakthroughs occurring in automotive human-machine interface. Additionally, Dr Alexander Meschtscherjakov from the Centre of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg in Austria offers a presentation on “Driver distraction studies on visual distraction of different … Read more

Charter to Provide Apple TV 4K and Take Advantage of New Features in tvOS 12

Apple has announced that US cable operator Charter Communications will begin offering the Apple TV 4K as a set-top-box solution to its customers later this year, alongside an all-new Spectrum TV app, intended to be seamlessly integrated with Siri and the TV app. The new Spectrum TV app will also be available for iPhone and … Read more

Analogix 10Gbps USB-C Re-Timers Ship in the Latest Generation Notebooks, Desktop PCs, Monitors, and Accessories

Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. announced the mass production of its ANX74xxfamily of USB-C re-timer solutions for notebooks, 2-in-1 convertible laptops, desktop PCs, monitors, and USB-C accessories, driven by demand from the PC and accessories market. ANX7440, the first protocol aware re-timing mux bridging DisplayPort™ and USB 3.1 interfaces for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia CPUs/GPUs to the … Read more

Analogix 10Gbps USB-C Re-Timers Ship

Analogix Semiconductor Inc announced at Computex its ANX74xx family of USB-C re-timer solutions for notebooks, 2-in-1 convertible laptops, desktop PCs, monitors, and USB-C accessories. The company said that the chip is the first USB-C re-timer to pass interoperability at USB-IF and VESA plug-tests. The Analogix re-timers implemented on the latest generation processor platforms offer the … Read more

Colorimetry at Display Week – Roundup

The Color Gamut Session at Display week (Session 78) had four papers in it. The session did not focus on improving the color gamut of displays. Instead, it focused on the evaluation and representation of the color gamut of existing displays. Improving the color gamut of a display was the topic in numerous other sessions … Read more

Projection Technology at Display Week – Roundup

There were two sessions at the SID technical symposium that focused on the technology for projection systems: Session 63: Projection: Image Improvement and Session 70: Projection: Screen Technology. Projection Technology With diffusers alone, speckle was still visible in the best combination of diffusers (a). It became invisible with the Dyoptyka mirror turned on. Note the … Read more

Rumoured LCD Notch Design iPhone Delayed Until November?

The 6.1″ LCD iPhone rumoured for release later this year could miss Apple’s usual September launch window, instead releasing two months later in November, according to a report from Korean publication “The Bell”. It has been predicted for a while now that the LCD smartphone would join two new OLED models in Apple’s 2018 iPhone … Read more

Intel Reveals Low-Power Display Technology for Laptops

Intel has revealed its new laptop power management technology at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, which targets the component that saps the most energy — the display. The company claims the new 1-watt LCD panel it has developed in collaboration with Sharp and Innolux — who have also adopted it, according to The Register — can … Read more

Samsung Predicts Automotive AMOLED will Grow to 3 Million Units by 2022

According to OLED-Info, Samsung has predicted that the automotive display market will grow at a CAGR of 9% between 2018 and 2022, with OLED displays for automotive applications growing significantly faster — from 100,000 units in 2018 to 3 million in 2022. The article states that the comments were made at the company’s 2018 Investors … Read more