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SES Launches New HD+ IP Streaming Service in Germany

SES announced HD+ IP, a new Internet-based streaming service in Germany that provides subscribers with access to 50 HD channels and libraries with more content without needing to have a satellite, cable or DVB-T2 TV connection. Launching in December, the new HD+ IP streaming service will expand SES’s addressable market by additional 20 million households … Read more

DSCC Report Compares and Forecasts OLED and MiniLED Panel Costs in Tablets, Notebooks and Monitors

What They Say In its weekly blog release of data, DSCC published an interesting extract of its Advanced IT Display Report comparing the costs of miniLED and OLEDs. 12.9″ miniLED panels shown in the chart are estimated to cost $206 at the moment, ahead of the cost of tandem rigid OLEDs. At the other end … Read more

SES adds HD+ IP for Germany

What They Say SES has extended the provision of its German HD+ service to IP only subscribers. The service provides 50 HD channels for €6 per month. There is also an option for HD+ ToGo which extends access to smartphones and tablets for €5 per month. Owners of new Panasonic TVs from December will get … Read more

‘Meh’taverse Apologies

What They Say Apologies – yesterday our CMS decided that it should publish an article on the ‘Meh’ taverse by a journalist I know just after we had run our daily email test and before the email went out. It should not have gone out in the email. What We Think I was waiting for … Read more

Sony Files for Foveated Rendering Patents

What They Say UploadVR reported that Sony has applied for a patent to cover ‘Eye Tracking To Adjust Region-Of-Interest (ROI) For Compressing Images For Transmission’. Foveated rendering is explicitly mentioned later in the document. The blog reported earlier this year that the gaze recognition feature would be included in the PS5 VR headset. What We … Read more

iFixit confirms iPhone 13 disables Face ID after third-party screen repair

What They Say iFixit reports that the iPhone13 ‘completely disables’ its flagship Face ID functionality when you replace its screen. The tests have been duplicated by other repairers. The blog said “The iPhone 13 is paired to its screen using this small microcontroller, in a condition repair techs often call “serialization.” Apple has not provided … Read more