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The SMPTE UK chapter had an event – originally planned as as in-person event but later mutated to a virtual video – to visit the BBC’s R&D department. It promised some information on the use of HLG in sports broadcasting, so I arranged to attend the event. Most of the event was on a broad … Read more
Ultraleap’s fifth-generation hand tracking platform, known as Gemini, is fully available on Windows. The most robust, flexible hand tracking ever, it’s already bringing touchless technology to self-service solutions around the world. The Gemini Windows release is the first step in making the world’s best hand tracking easier to access and more flexible for multiple platforms, … Read more
What They Say Ultraleap (the merged company from Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion) put out a press release that highlighted how the firm’s technology for finger tracking can be used to create a ‘touchless’ touch system for kiosks and self service operations. A significant change is that the sensors can now be mounted above the display … Read more
What They Say AUO and Innolux released their quarterly financials for Q3 2021. AUO was up in revenue by 3.6% QoQ to 3.56 billion with profit of $694 million. Area shipped was 6.44 million m², up 0.7% from Q2, but down 6.1% from Q3 last year. TV panel sales and prices were weak, while IT … Read more
PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted highlights from their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 25 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading U.S. projector dealers, retailers, web resellers, and distributors. Their Tracking Service … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has published the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard version 1.5. Replacing eDP 1.4b, published in 2015, eDP 1.5 retains all key features of the previous specification while adding additional capabilities and performance. These include an improved panel self-refresh protocol coupled with enhancements to VESA’s Adaptive-Sync protocol, a … Read more
What They Say LG Display held its quarterly briefing for analysts and, as usual, there was some useful information. Highlights for us were: IT panels represented 45% of revenue, while TV was 32%, down 6%. Mobile and others were 23% Area panel prices are expected to grow despite expected drops in LCD because of growth … Read more
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market, (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 12.7% YoY in 2021Q3, for a total of 24.4 million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). A strong commercial performance throughout the region is the main driver of this growth, offsetting a slowdown in consumer, which could not keep … Read more
What They Say US analyst Leichtman Research Group said that 71% of US TV households have some form of pay TV service – down from 82% in 2016, 87% in 2011, and 86% in 2006. The penetration of pay TV increases with consumer age and goes from 64% at 18-44 to 77% at 45+ down … Read more
What They Say Economist Paul Kedrosky included an interesting chart on his daily feed of such things. It is from the US Bureau of Economic Activity (BEA) and highlighted the dramatic change in the balance between the sales of goods and services caused in the US by the pandemic. What We Think I became aware … 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 second part of this week. Sixteen-nine’s Dave Haynes has a look a what is going on at Infocomm Sharp’s 8K Interactive Museum Solution “A Hands-On Look at Legendary Tea Bowls” Wins 2021 Design … Read more
What They Say A hat-tip to Dave Haynes of Sixteen:Nine.net for sending me an interesting collection of images of LG digital signs which seem to be very blue (see a few of the images below). This confused me as it was much more extreme than a ‘blue filter’ kind of issue. (it might have just … Read more
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