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Mid-week Links – Week Ending 11th November 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. Connected TV Advertising’s Big Secret: Two Can Be a Crowd (Bloom) Are We Ready for Shopping Lists on Smart Contact Lenses? Apple’s AR glasses could be pushed back to … Read more

VIOSO Smashes 100,000 Test Pattern Milestone

VIOSO is celebrating a landmark 100,000 confirmed test images produced with its free test pattern generator tool, which has found global adoption across the pro-AV industry. The tool, a free-to-use multi-display/edge blending test pattern generator, creates customised panorama, soft-edge and LED test images (in high-res PNG) for accurate projection or display alignment on site.  It also … Read more

YouTube Shorts now on TVs

What They Say YouTube said that it wold bring its ‘Shorts’ vertical format short-form videos to TV screens. Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer, said: “When we introduced this new format, we optimised the experience for the mobile creator and viewer. Today, we’re expanding viewing access to Shorts to our fastest growing surface: the TV screen. While … Read more

Pixelworks Reports Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

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Pixelworks, Inc., a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. Third Quarter Overview Total revenue increased 16% year-over-year and decreased 8% sequentially, in line with expectations Mobile revenue increased 25% year-over-year, contributing to growth of 44% year-to-date compared to the same period … Read more

Lepow Announces the Z1 Ultra-Slim Portable Display Monitor

Due to COVID 19, many people are looking for better workspace decoration methods to improve their remote worklife quality. And a portable monitor has gradually become a must have for people who need to work at home to satisfy their workspace decoration needs. Usually, a portable monitor has both horizontal and vertical positions, which is … Read more

Apple Pushes Pegatron to India for iPhone Assembly

What They Say Bloomberg has reported that Apple is pushing Pegatron to assemble iPhone 14 models in India as it seeks to diversify away from production in China. Foxconn already assembles some units of the iPhone 14 in India. (Apple confirms manufacturing iPhone 14 in India) The news provider also said that Apple has reduced its … Read more

What the Quest Pro tells us about Hollywood’s future

What They Say A former Nickelodeon executive Chris Young, has been experimenting with the Meta Quest Pro and posted a video that showed him using the headset to reveal a view of his actual home by ‘erasing’ an image of its digital twin. (It’s clearer when you see it here than it is to describe). Protocol … Read more

Meta Pushes the Envelope on HMD Brightness

Meta has been working on many aspects of VR and AR display use for years. At Siggraph this year the firm showed its experiments with pushing the brightness of VR headsets to new levels. UploadVR interviewed Douglas Lanman, Display Systems Research Director at Meta about the development and one comment that he made struck home with … Read more

DCI Adds Another LG LED Cinema

What They Say DCI has approved a new LG LED Display based on a model LDAA012 display device with a Dolby Media Block. The full specification said that the display was created with 6 modules per cabinet and a total of 48 cabinets. What We Think I couldn’t find a reference online to an LG … Read more

New Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 with DisplayPort 2.1

What They Say At an AMD event to unveil the Radeon RX 7900 XT(X), Samsung teased a new Odyssey Neo G9 monitor that we expect will have a 32:9 aspect ratio monitor that will have 8K horizontal resolution. The monitor is likely to be formally announced at CES 2023 in January. According to the AMD event, … Read more