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What They Say The 8K Association worked with codec specialist Jan Ozer to look at the encoding of 8K video and published an interesting article that he wrote that looked at the bitrates needed for high quality 8K. On the face of it, you might think that as 8K has 16X the resolution of FullHD, … Read more
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that its wireless power charging technology is integrated in the Active ES® pen solutions from Wacom, a leader in cutting-edge digital pen and ink solutions. The Renesas single-chip wireless power receiver IC delivers small size and high efficiency compared to alternative high-frequency charging solutions. … Read more
What They Say Google has joined the trend to helping device owners to repair things themselves by tying up with iFixit. iFixit will supply repair guides and will make parts available including “batteries, displays, cameras, and more”. Parts will be made available back to the Pixel 2 from 2017 in countries including the US, Canada, … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. ICDT in China to be postponed because of Covid – no date for event yet. Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists (not to do with … Read more
What They Say The Dell/Alienware 34″ QD-OLED AW3423DW monitor has been getting out and been tested. We spotted a couple of recent reviews. Toms Hardware liked the monitor although it found it had to ‘measure a tiny window’ to see the rated peak output of 1,000 cd/m² in HDR mode. It liked the wide gamut … Read more
What They Say Hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net for pointing us to a US company lobby that uses nine curved and tiled 55″ portrait-oriented OLEDs from LG. The team from AVI-SPL (which is based in the offices in Dallas) worked with Draper to mount the displays and AVI-SPL Engineering Manager Erich Schriefer said: “It was super interesting … Read more
What They Say Korean news site, The Elec, said that the on-going discussions between Samsung’s TV business and LG Display over the possible supply of OLED panels are focused mainly around the lowest cost version of LGD’s OLEDs. The blog said that there are three levels of panel available from LGD, the R (200 cd/m²), … Read more
What They Say The Elec quoted respected analyst Nakane-san of Mizhuo Securities as saying at the UBI Conference in Korea as saying that last year Samsung bought 800K OLEDs from BOE and CSOT of China, but that this would rise to 3.5 million from BOE and 3 million from CSOT this year. Last year, the … Read more
Global shipments of traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, declined 5.1% in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) but exceeded earlier forecasts, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. The PC market is coming off two years of double-digit growth, so while the first quarter … Read more
A research team led by Jang Bong-kyun of the Department of Nano-Mechanics at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (Daejeon, South Korea) or KIMM is developing a technology to produce displays that, when uniaxially stretched up to 25 percent, continue to present an image free of distortion. The design and manufacturing technology used in … Read more
What They Say Samsung released some high level information about the improvements to image quality in its 2022 Neo QLED 8K TVs. It highlights: 14 bit processing for the miniLED backlight, up from 12 bit. The firm emphasised that even with the same number of zones and LEDs, the quality of the image is improved. … Read more
On a recent visit to light field display developer Looking Glass Factory (LGF), we had a chance to see their new line up of glasses-free 3D displays. This includes the new 7.9” Portrait display, and Generation 2 versions of the 15.4” 4K model and the 32” 8K monitor. After a 2-year hiatus in showing their … Read more
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