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TCL Offers Google TV Option

What They Say TCL, which has previously used Roku as its high end sets, with some lower end Android-based sets, is bringing TV sets powered by Google TV to the market in its 5- and 6-series. The 5-Series will be available in 50″, 55″, 65″ and 75″ while the 6-Series is in just the larger … Read more

SMPTE Looks at HDR – and a way of Quantifying the H-K Impact

What They Say SMPTE’s Motion Imaging Journal has taken a special look at HDR this month and has a number of interesting articles on the topic. Our eye was particularly caught by this one which details a computational model that can predict the impact of the Helmholtz Kohlrausch (H-K effect). (Basically, the H-K effect is … Read more

Pioneering the Way to Smarter Monitors for Streamlined ATC Visual Systems

The complexity of modern air space management and the ATC systems with which the air traffic control officer (ATCO) must interact influences workload and task performance. On a technical level, general increases in air traffic and the resulting increases in the volume of information that needs to be managed also suggests that if the implementation … Read more

Sales of Micro LED chips for TVs to reach $3.4bn in 2025

Annual revenue of Micro LED chips for TV is expected to reach US$3.4 billion in 2025 at a 250% CAGR across the 2021-2025 period, according to TrendForce’s latest report titled 2021 Mini / Micro LED Self-Emissive Display Trends and Analysis on Suppliers’ Strategies. This growth can mostly attributed to the early planning by display manufacturers … Read more

A Dissolvable Smartwatch Makes for Easier Electronics Recycling  

What They Say Wearable Technology reported on a paper from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that describes a two-metal nanocomposite for circuits that disintegrates when submerged in water. They demonstrated the circuits in a prototype transient device — a functional smartwatch that dissolved within 40 hours. The research group previously developed a zinc-based nanocomposite that … Read more