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Cord Cutting in 2021. Antennas Selling Well

What They Say Protocol newsletter posted an article that looked at developments in streaming this year and categorised 2021 as the ‘post-cable’ year. One of the interesting snippets was that the article said that 8.5 million antennas were sold in the year, with 40 million people watching according to Scripps Network. That number is expected … Read more

Samsung Electronics Delivers Premium HDR Gameplay With HDR10+ GAMING Standard Support for Its New Screens

Samsung Electronics announced that select 2022 4K and 8K TVs and gaming monitors will support the new HDR10+ GAMING standard, delivering the immersive, ultra-responsive HDR gaming experience to gamers. The new, cutting-edge HDR gameplay will be unveiled at CES 2022 along with a list of 4K and 8K game titles, all powered by NVIDIA GPUs. … Read more

8K Association Announces Certified 8K TV Specification Update & New Members Including Prime Video

The 8K Association (8KA), the cross-industry group dedicated to promoting the growth of the 8K ecosystem, has published an updated performance specification for the powerful 8K Association Certified mark program. The updated specification adds new decoding requirements, new image quality metrics and a game mode fullfilling our goal to continue adding or expanding features for … Read more

Planet to Show Astro Slide 5G at CES

Astro Slide 5G is the world’s first 5G mobile device with a full physical backlit keyboard. It is the first of Planet’s devices to feature the new patented RockUp™ slider hinge, transforming from a 5G smartphone into a powerful palmtop computer thanks to its physical keyboard – available in 24 different keyboard layouts. Powered by … Read more

B&W Teams with Formovie

What They Say The UK-based audio specialist Bowers & Wilkins sent us a press release (BW_Formovie.pdf) to say that it has done a deal with Formovie, a Chinese company founded by Xiaomi and Appotronics, that is developing ‘cinema-pro’ quality UST laser projectors for the Chinese market using the latest ALPD RGB+ technology and DLP imager. … Read more

Ikegami to Promote Latest Additions to its Range of Broadcast Cameras and Monitors at Hamburg Open

Ikegami will promote the latest additions to its range of broadcast production camera systems and monitors at Hamburg Open 2022. The show is scheduled to take place from Wednesday January 19th (10:00 – 18.00) through Thursday 20th (10.00 – 16:00) in Hall 8 of the Congress Center Hamburg. Focus of attention on Ikegami stand H.339 … Read more

Huawei’s P50 Has a Circular External Display

What They Say Huawei launched, as expected, a new folding, clamshell smartphone, the P50 Pocket, that combines a folding 6.9″ 120Hz 21:9 (279O x 1188) resolution. What was not expected is that the smartphone has a 1″ round cover OLED display which can be used for a range of notifications and has its own widgets. … Read more

 HDMI 2.1a Adds SBTM

What They Say HDMI has introduced HDMI 2.1a which adds a single feature, “Source-Based Tone Mapping” which is a way for source and sink devices to communicate on optimum tone mapping. There are other minor ‘tweaks’ and bug fixes. SBTM allows a source device to find out the capability of the final display and can … Read more

Sisvel Signs an Agreement Under the VP9 Patents With Panasonic Corporation

Sisvel International S.A. announced that it has signed a worldwide patent license agreement with Panasonic Corporation for Sisvel’s VP9 Licensing Program covering the sale and distribution of Panasonic’s VP9 enabled products. “Sisvel has a longstanding partnership with Panasonic. The Company is already a licensee of other Sisvel licensing programs in different technological fields and we … Read more

CES Still Losing Support

What They Say CES looks less and less appealing as a number of big tech names have dropped out. Amazon, Meta and Twitter have dropped out and the latest we saw withdrawing was Lenovo which usually has a significant presence in the Venetian – hiring one of the restaurants for the whole event (and a … Read more