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ViewSonic Launches New Pantone Validated ColorPro Monitors with 2K and 4K Resolutions

September 20, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, announces that it has started shipping the new 27-inch VP2756-2K and VP2756-4K ColorPro monitors. The latest additions to the company’s award-winning ColorPro™ monitor series, the VP2756-2K and VP2756-4K monitors are Pantone Validated and feature native QHD (2560×1440) and Ultra HD (3840×2160) resolutions, respectively, and are engineered … Read more

DisplayPort 2.0 will be Great for 8K, But When is it Coming?

September 20, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association’s Chris Chinnock published a look at the development of DisplayPort 2.0 which potentially is fast enough for up to 8K/120p, 16-bit, 4:4:4 transfers. The Association, quoting Craig Wiley of VESA and Parade Technologies, said that the original expectation was to have products in the market by the end of … Read more

Links Week Commencing 20th September 2021

September 20, 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 first part of this week. Luxexcel and Optiswiss announce cooperation for 3D printed smart eyewear New information about the ViewSonic XG321UG with mini LED backlight Barco celebrates 100,000 digital cinema projectors production milestone … Read more

The Future of QD display – Phosphors & Quantum Dots Industry Forum 2021

September 20, 2021 by Sweta Dash

Quantum Dot display technology is continuously evolving with new materials, new processes and new devices while progressing towards becoming the ultimate next generation self emissive display solution. The recent virtual “Phosphors and Quantum Dots Industry Forum” from September 14-15 gave a glimpse of the future of this display technology. Reinventing the Display Industry Quantum Dot … Read more

Cadillac 2023 Lyriq EV Sells Out Quickly

September 20, 2021 by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say In the US, Cadillac announced its 2023 Lyriq Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV). The $100 reservations of the production quota sold out within minutes of its launch (although, as the deposit is refundable, it doesn’t mean that all will buy vehicles). The display is a 33″ unit (Barrons reported that a 55″ version … Read more

Researchers Developing Advanced Electrodes to Improve OLED Performance

September 18, 2021 by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Xue-Mei Wen of Jilin University (Changchun, China) is developing means to improve the brightness of OLED devices based on using corrugated electrodes made of a metal alloy. First, a few words of background information. It is possible to achieve nearly 100% internal quantum efficiency in phosphorescent OLEDs. Unfortunately, a … Read more

Gazing Back to the Future (Part 2)

December 21, 2022September 17, 2021 by Bob Raikes

Yesterday, (Gazing Back to the Future) I looked at how good it would be for PCs to be able to add gaze recognition to supplement the 40 year plus paradigm of GUI, keyboard, mouse and monitor and make PC use more intuitive and efficient. Today, I want to dig into this further. (note that both … Read more

Why Comcast is getting into the smart TV business

September 17, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say We published a link last week to an article that reported that Comcast was planning to get into the SmartTV market in the US. The Protocol published an article that looked at the rationale for that move. The firm will supply 43″ and 50″ sets running the firm’s X1 OS and made … Read more

Landmarks Shown in 3D

September 17, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say We can’t resist a good showreel and the Shanghai Media Group Technical Centre shared its work to create a virtual studio for Euro 2020. The group produced the show reel that highlights 11 European landmarks using Pixotope software What We Think I have to admit that I couldn’t identify the three buildings … Read more

LG Display sees increasing demand for large-sized OLED TVs

September 17, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display said that it has seen a big boost in 77″ or larger OLED panel demand over the last couple of years. Quoting a report in the Korean Press the firm’s blog highlighted that the share of large sizes has gone up from 6.3% in 2019 to 13.7% in 2020 and … Read more

Turn Any Surface Into a Touchscreen

September 16, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in the IEEE Spectrum highlights a new method for combining a rolling shutter camera with a scanning projector to allow optical sensing of depth with just a single camera, rather than the multiple cameras that are typically used. The camera and projector are synchronised. The system uses ‘slope disparity gating’ … Read more

Hacking a Smart TV is Easier Than You Think

September 16, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

A new survey by the leading virtual private network provider NordVPN revealed that more than 65% of Britons have smart TVs in their homes. However, almost 1 in 4 do nothing to protect their smart devices. In 2019, the FBI released a warning stating that smart TVs can make users vulnerable to surveillance and attacks … Read more