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Valve’s 10-day long tournament for their smash hit Dota 2 game was held in Bucharest’s largest stadium, the 50,000 capacity ‘Arena Na?ional?’, and assembled the world’s top-ranking teams to battle it out on screen for a world record-breaking prize pool of over $40m. The virtual part of the event was produced by virtual production company … Read more
What They Say Codec consultant, Jan Ozer (I’m sure I have one of his books from many years ago, somewhere..) has published an introductory guide to different codecs. What We Think This is a useful resource from a very credible author. (BR) Table 3. The most important codec ability is playability; here’s where the various … Read more
What They Say Tobii issued a short press statement to say that it is working with Sony with a view to supplying the eye tracking technology for the PlayStation VR2 headset. What We Think There was little other information supplied and the firm said, as it is ‘is obliged to make public pursuant to the … Read more
What They Say Advanced Television reported that NHK has developed an 8K camera that can capture and record at 240 fps making it suitable for slow motion sports coverage. BS4K and BS8K broadcast at 60 fps in Japan. To achieve both low noise and high speed, NHK STRL implemented two signal lines for each pixel … 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. (Most of them monitors, it seems!) MSI: New FreeSync Premium monitors with 170 Hz Gigabyte: WQHD monitor with Aim Stabilizer Sync and KVM MSI G271CP with FreeSync Premium … Read more
NetRange MMH GmbH, the global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, announced that it has been chosen to provide content for the new range of Hisense TVs powered by VIDAA OS. “NetRange has been an invaluable partner to us in ensuring that we have Smart TV apps for all the key markets … Read more
What They Say Dell’s Alienware brand said that its 34″ QD-OLED monitor would be available in ‘early spring’ and will sell in the US for $1,299. What We Think Wow – that’s a good price for what should be a great monitor for gaming. I said last week that Sony would benefit from the delay … Read more
According to the International Data Corporation ’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, India shipped 161 million smartphones in 2021. This was up by 7% YoY (year-over-year), even as supply and pandemic related challenges created disruptions during the year. 2021 started strong with pent-up demand from 2H20 (Jul- Dec) and positive sentiments around vaccinations but … Read more
What They Say We’ve been following V-Nova and its Codecs for a number of years now. Just a couple of weeks ago, we missed a release from the firm that said that MPEG-5 LCEVC (LCEVC) codec enhancement (ISO/IEC 23094-2) had been selected by the Brazilian SBTVD Forum for adoption in its next generation broadcast television … Read more
What They Say Noctiluca posted a press release (in Polish) highlighting that it has signed a deal with LG Display to collaborate on the development of OLED emitter materials ‘with the intention of using the company’s emitters by the partner in its own products’ (according to Google translate!). Initially, LG Display will perform testing and … Read more
What They Say Samba TV released three reports on the ‘State of Viewership’ in TV in the US, the UK and Germany and in Australia. The reports look at the reach and impressions of different kinds advertising and the impact of streaming on advertising. For example, in the chart below, the firm shows that although … Read more
What They Say XR Today published a ’round table’ of views about the XR industry with representatives of HTC Vive, Varjo, Arthur and Lenovo. Most of it is uncontroversial although Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur, on the topic of 5G, which was seen as very positive by other participants, said: “As of right now, I have … Read more
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