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The UHD Alliance canceled a planned press conference at CES 2017, so we met with them in a suite at the Westgate Hotel. Apparently they wanted to make an announcement about the extension of an Alliance formulated HDR mobile program, but they could not get all the needed sign offs in time. “That’s OK,” explained … Read more
We had a chance to meet with the Blu-ray Disc Association at CES and get an update. This update was mostly about the status of the roll out in terms of players and titles. According to Victor Matsuda, chair of the Blu-ray Disc Association’s global promotions committee, “The launch of the Ultra HD Blu-ray format … Read more
The rumour from CES that Snakebyte’s new STB would be pre-loaded with Disney content has been denied by both parties. Apparently there have been some exploratory discussions between the two companies about licensing Disney-owned franchises and characters, but that is all.
Panasonic issued a press release at CES describing their new OLED TV, but they never mentioned it in their press conference and we never saw it at CES. We heard afterwards that it was shown in a private room, but we didn’t get an invite (Europe-only press was invited – Man. Ed.). But the bottom … Read more
P&F USA Inc, the company that manages the Philips brand in North America, and managed by Funai, used CES 2017 to introduce four new series of TVs. Only the Philips 4K Ultra HD 8000 series televisions will support Dolby Vision out of the box. Two of the series also have Chromecast integrated as well (5000 … Read more
Hisense has control of the Sharp brand in North America – and it announced new TV products, but, surprisingly, didn’t show any – at least none that we saw. Hisense’s press conference was all about its product with not a word about Sharp. That’s rather strange. Are they not investing in the brand here, anticipating … Read more
LeEco has started to sell a few products in North Americam, starting last fall, and hoping to duplicate their success in China. As we have reported previously, they are introducing a potentially disruptive business model. In TVs, that means offering very good quality TVs at a very reasonable price and offering a slew of content … Read more
Vuzix said that it had completed filing of the FCC process for its M300 Smart Glasses and expects to start shipping very quickly to customers in North America.The company said that the work over the last six months to establish the Vuzix VIP application software partner programme has resulted in a significant pipeline of customer … Read more
Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to announce that the Company has completed, passed, and filed with the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) all of the (FCC) emission’s requirements for its next generation M300 Smart … Read more
LG Electronics talked a lot about their Nano Cell technology at CES 2017 and how this improves performance of their Super LCD TVs. They described Nano Cell LCD displays as having, “uniformly-sized particles measuring approximately one nanometer in diameter to create more subtle, accurate colors that can be viewed from wider angles than other LCD … Read more
We had a chance to attend the Sony press conference and tour their booth at CES 2017. TV highlights included: First OLED TV with Crystal Sound (AX1 series) New WCG/HDR LCD TVs (X930E/940E series) Dolby Vision for the AX1-, X930E/940E- and Z9D- series TV First Dolby Vision Blu-ray player (Ultra HD Blu-ray Players at CES … Read more
This week we catch up with the general news from the last couple of weeks. We are working on the CES report and you can keep track on the website with our full report. We’ll send the pdf file next week when it’s complete. CES was interesting, as always. As expected, there were more OLED … Read more
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