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Optoma Announces Highest Brightness WUXGA Projector Series with Eight Interchangeable Lenses

September 23, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Optoma, a world-leading manufacturer of large display products and the #1 DLP™ brand in the Americas,* announced its highest brightness professional laser projectors to-date, filling a need for high-end installations, including the entertainment, exhibition, and digital signage markets. At 17,000, 19,000 and 22,000 lumens respectively, the Optoma Ultra Bright Series ZU1700, ZU1900 and ZU2200 projectors … Read more

Sky ‘planning own range of smart TVs’

December 21, 2022September 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sky TV is reported by the Financial Times to be planning to launch its own range of smartTVs. That would be in line with the move by its parent company, Comcast, to start to supply such systems. (Comcast confirms interest in putting X1 on smart TVs). Sky UK has also been reported … Read more

Report: 25% of global advanced STBs running on Android TV

September 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dataxis reported the market shares of advanced set-top box middleware in the installed base. It highlighted that Android TV has dropped from 40% in 2015 to around 25% now, as RDK, in particular has taken share. Most of the share of Android TV is in Asia, with 67.2% of Android installations and … Read more

The Value Electronics TV Shootout Returns

September 23, 2021 by Ken Werner

Robert Zohn of VE initiated the shootout 18 years ago. In recent years, the event has compared four different premium 4K TV sets in a detailed process that has taken most of a day. This year, the program was expanded to also include three 8K sets and, on September 13th, three ultra-short-throw (UST) projectors. We … Read more

AR & the Military

September 22, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist ($) had an article about the way that AR is being used by the military, especially the US Army which has a big project that it calls IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmentation System) and is developing with Microsoft. The Hololens headset has been ruggedised and with a computing and battery ‘puck’ … Read more

Links Week Ending 24th September 2021

September 22, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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. ‘An Invitation – A Colour the Trails Story’ | Ninja V+ & Canon EOS R5 | 8K ProRes RAW (a nice 8K video) Forecast: E Europe to reach … Read more

Redmi G 2021 Notebooks Unveiled

September 22, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi released two new gaming notebooks under the Redmi brand. One has an Intel processor and the other has an AMD CPU and they both have Nvidia RTX graphics (RTX3050 and RTX3060, respectively). They both have 16.1″ displays that can refresh up to 144Hz, and there is a 72Hz mode. What We … Read more

LG 32″ OLED Now at B&H Photo (although back-ordered)

December 21, 2022September 22, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG has been talking about its new 27″ and 32″ inkjet printed OLED monitors using panels from JOLED for some time. Now the 32″ version is available from B&H Photo, our reference US retailer for this kind of product, although it was back-ordered when we checked. The 27″ version still seems to … Read more

TCL Foldable Won’t be Launched

September 22, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has got a long way towards making a folding phone, but told the Verge that it saw an opportunity for the category. However, it is not currently able to bring it to market at a price that could make it accessible ‘to as many consumers as possible’. The firm has made … Read more

Nantstudios Delivers Commercial For Luxury Car Brand Powered By Disguise

September 22, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

NantStudios is a Los Angeles based industry-leading full-service production studio equipped with state-of-the-art technology to deliver traditional, broadcast and LED virtual productions. With an extensive background in film, TV, video games and commercial production, as part of their portfolio, they’ve welcomed films such as Avengers: Endgame, Deadpool 2 and one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, … Read more

Researchers Boost Red Perovskite Efficiency and Lifetime

September 22, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Ural Federal University, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia, working with scientists in China have published a paper in Advanced Functional Materials that explains how a group developed nanostructures (hemispheres) several nanometers high to improve the light extraction of perovskite LEDs. The group achieved an EQE of 21.2% and extended the lifetime by … Read more

Cobalt Digital’s 9904-UDX-4K Provided the Perfect Solution for M6’s UHD HLG to UHD SDR Conversion During UEFA European Football Championship

September 22, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Cobalt® Digital, designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGear® initiative, has announced that Groupe M6, utilized its 9904-UDX-4K openGear card including Advanced HDR by Technicolor solutions to convert UHD HLG signals to UHD SDR during the UEFA European Football Championship. Groupe … Read more