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What They Say Nikkei reported that 7-Eleven Japan is experimenting in six stores in Tokyo with ‘holographic’ touch screens that feature a virtual touch screen but do not use physical touch. The terminals cannot be used to buy alcohol, tobacco or ‘prepared foods’. What We Think I was intrigued by the restriction on ‘prepared foods’. … Read more
What They Say Apple published its Q4 and full year results and the firm hit a new record of $123.9 billion in Q4, up 11%, with $34.6 billion in profit. In a call, Tim Cook said that Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices, up from 1.65 billion a year ago and 1.5 billion two … Read more
Microsoft cashed in on the need for mobile productivity devices with its massive Surface portfolio refresh and joined the ranks of the top global tablet vendors for the first time ever. Meanwhile, most vendors experienced setbacks in securing components to meet persistently high demand. According to a new report by Strategy Analytics, supply constraints held … Read more
MPEG LA, LLC announced the availability of the VVC Patent Portfolio License (“VVC License” or “License”). The joint license includes patents that are essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC, also known as H.266 and MPEG-I Part 3) standard. VVC provides increased compression with significant bitrate reduction, giving consumers enhanced speed and efficiency in products … Read more
I tend to think of RealD as a supplier of cinema technology in display or image processing, although it also has other technologies. I remember seeing a cool idea for changing the apparent direction that the eyes are looking to make it look as though there is direct eye contact in videoconferencing. However, today’s DD … Read more
What They Say LG Display made a lot of noise around CES about its OLED EX panels but TV makers have been less enthusiastic about trumpeting the use of the technology. However, the Philips TVs sold by TPVision wlll use the panel in the new OLED807 in 48″, 55″, 65″ and 77″ sizes. Refresh rate … 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. Ricoh’s new Theta X 360º camera features 2.55″ touchscreen, interchangeable battery and Micro SD card slot Hands-on with Samsung’s 2022 TVs (& technical information) Samsung Takes Semiconductor Crown … Read more
What They Say Just a bit of industry gossip, but Ahn Seung-ho, who was a Samsung Electronics vice president and headed its IP centre for 10 years and who headed the Samsung negotiations to buy the Clairvoyante developer of novel pixel designs, is now running a company that is suing Samsung over the use of … Read more
What They Say Epson launched some new high brightness LCD projectors using 1.03″ 1920 x 1200 3LCD engines and from 13K to 20K Ansi Lumens (and CLO, of course). The units have laser light sources and are claimed to be the smallest ever with this class of output. The 2K EB-PU2220B has dimensions of 586? … Read more
Epson, the leading global projector brand[1], and market leader in Pro Displays across EMEA[2], has launched its newest generation of compact, efficient and ultra-lightweight high lumens 3LCD projectors. Building on the success of its EB-L20000U series, Epson’s PU2200U range of high lumens 3LCD projectors includes the world’s smallest and lightest 20,000 lumens models (EB-PU2220B / … Read more
Corning Incorporated announced the launch of a new glass composition to advance the development of augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) diffractive waveguides for wearable devices. Optical advancements inherent in the glass take the augmented reality experience to the next level through larger, clearer digital content that creates more engaging and immersive user experiences. Corning’s Advanced … Read more
What They Say The DVB Project is working with the 5G Media Action Group to form a joint task force to develop TV over 5G. As usual for DVB projects, the development is based on the commercial requirements for DVB-I over 5G. The initial focus of the JTF will be to map use cases and … Read more
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