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As Expected, Roku Launches in Germany

What They Say As expected (Roku to Launch its Players in Germany) Roku has formally announced that it is releasing its streaming sticks in Germany including the Roku Express, Roku Express 4K, Roku Streaming Stick 4K and Roku Streambar with pricing at €29.99, €39.99, €59.99 and €149.99, respectively. Local content includes: Movies & TV: ARD … Read more

Roku Presents Streaming Player Line-Up for Germany Starting at €29.99

Roku introduced its streaming player line-up for Germany, including the Roku Express, Roku Express 4K, Roku Streaming Stick 4K and Roku Streambar. Roku streaming players offer German consumers an easy and affordable way to stream entertainment to their TV. At launch, German consumers will be able to enjoy a wide variety of global and local … Read more

Grab Bag 2021: Education Edition

Since not every little revelation warrants a dedicated article, my answer is to provide a periodic curation of interesting developments in the education sector. And that’s what we have here: merely a few “grab bags” of discrete information now peeking out from the educational world and beyond. Open any bag, and with delightful expectation (or … Read more

Researchers Developing Means to Improve the Lifetime of Perovskite Based LEDs

A team of researches headed by Yong-Chun Ye of Soochow University (Suzhou, China) is developing an architecture for red light emitting perovskite based LEDs (PeLEDs) that “minimizes optical energy loss and significantly increases their efficiency and longevity.” At this time, the commercial development of PeLEDs is hampered by insufficient long term operational stability. In fact, … Read more

PPDS Collaborates With Industry Leaders To Bring AI-driven Philips Digital Signage And Analytics Solutions To Retail Market For More Targeted Shopping Experiences

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips professional displays and solutions, is excited to announce a new collaboration with leading hardware and computer vision software providers, Intel, Advantech and Navori Labs, for the creation of the PPDS Intelligent Signage Solution for Retail. Bringing a bundled, trusted and proven solution to system integrators and retailers for … Read more

Amazon Working on Bigger Echo

What They Say Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter, written by Mark Gurman, suggested that Amazon is working on a new Echo device, code-named Hoya, that is designed to be put on a wall and has a 15″ display. The device is expected to be able to run apps for streaming, such as Netflix. The paper said … Read more

macOS beta Reveals New Higher-resolution Screens

What They Say MacRumors reported that there are new entries in the latest beta of macOS Monterey for new resolutions of 3456 x 2234 Retina and 3024 x 1964 Retina (both close to 14:9). Those resolutions are not supported in any current Apple Mac products and there has been speculation that these may be the … Read more

Allegro DVT and Beamr Announce the World’s First Content-Adaptive Silicon IP Video Encoder

Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video processing silicon IPs, and Beamr, the leading developer of content-adaptive video encoding technologies, today announced an integrated solution that combines Beamr’s CABR silicon IP with Allegro’s video encoding IP to create the world’s first content-adaptive silicon IP encoder. Using the integrated solution, ASIC vendors can now create high-performance, … Read more

Links Week Commencing 27th September 2021

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. A School District Successfully Implements Boxlight ProColor in All Classrooms EIZO Releases 6U OpenVPX/SOSA aligned GPGPU Processing Card with Dual NVIDIA Turing RTX GPUs for Sensor and Data-driven … Read more

Kopin Corporation Receives Follow On Order of Silicon Backplane Wafers for 2K x 2K OLED Microdisplays

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for consumer, defense, enterprise, industrial and medical products, announced it has received an approximately $850,000 follow-on order for its proprietary Lightning® 2K silicon backplane wafers. “We are proud to receive an additional follow-on order for our proprietary Lightning® 2K silicon backplane wafers,” … Read more