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For Streaming Media, Everything Old Is New Again

A story published March 9 at Forbes illustrates how the video streaming landscape continues to shift dramatically. What started out largely as a science experiment 18 years ago with YouTube has now become the dominant platform for the distribution and consumption of movies and television shows in the US. It’s upended the cable TV industry, … Read more

Q4’21 Maintains Torrid — Albeit Unsustainable — Workstation Market Growth

As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for Q4’21. There will be a quarter that ends the workstation market’s historically high growth, but the fourth quarter of 2021 wasn’t it. Yet again, quarterly growth far outpaced levels any would justifiably … Read more

Samsung Negotiations Continue over QD-OLED

What They Say The Korea Bizwire said that arguments about pricing are continuing to delay the introduction by Samsung Electronics of TVs based on Samsung Display’s QD-OLED technology. The site said that the VD division of Samsung that makes TVs wants pricing the same as WOLEDs from LG Display. SDC is said to be rejecting … Read more

Metamerism and New Display Technologies

What They Say The SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal published an article that looked at the challenges of metamerism in different emerging display technologies and ways of compensating for this. (Does WCG Make More People Colour Blind? for an article we have published on this kind of topic. What We Think I am hoping to follow … Read more

Samsung QD-OLED Soon?

What They Say Eagle-eyed observers spotted an advert for two Samsung QD-OLED TVs from Value Electronics in the US. The advert was still online when we looked. There are two model numbers, the QN65QS95B and QN55QS95B and features listed include four HDMI 2.1 inputs and a Next Gen ATSC 3.0 OTA tuner. What We Think … Read more

Surface Haptic Technology is Being Applied to Flexible AMOLEDs

A recent press release by Tanvas, Inc. (Chicago, IL), a developer of surface haptic technology, announced the results of a collaboration with “one of the world’s leading display suppliers.” The product of the collaboration is described as a prototype flexible AMOLED display that incorporates advance surface haptic technology. First, a few words of background information. … Read more