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Seventy Plus 8K TVs Now Certified by the 8K Association

The 8K Association (8KA), the cross-industry group dedicated to promoting the growth of the 8K ecosystem, has revealed that there are now over seventy 8K TVs that have been Certified by the 8KA. This includes nearly 50 newly launched models through the first half of 2021 from 3 of the world’s top TV brands – … Read more

TCL Upgrades Award-Winning 6-Series with 8K Resolution

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TCL, one of the world’s best-selling consumer electronics brands and leading technology companies, announced pricing and U.S. availability of the new 8K TCL Roku TV addition to its popular 6-Series TV line. Adding mini-LED backlight technology to the award-winning 6-Series models last year, TCL is empowering viewers to enjoy even more cinematic and gaming-optimized performance … Read more

Telling a Story with Colour

Movies are just light and colour and, of courses, are just the modern way of storytelling. So colour is an important part of movie making. The Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEW), a training centre, held a webinar that addressed the topic ‘Making the Grade:Color in TV & Film’ Jason Druss is from Frame.io and he was … Read more

Links Week Commencing 26th July 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. LG launches new 2021 8K and 4K LCD TVs Oculus unveiled Passthrough API Experimental, a toolkit to make it easier to merge VR with the real world Xiaomi … Read more

Samsung to Build First Virtual Production Studio With CJ ENM Leveraging Leading Display Technology

Samsung Electronics announced a new partnership with CJ ENM, Asia’s leading entertainment and media group behind the Oscar-winning film ‘Parasite’, to build a virtual production studio to spearhead the production of future video content. Combining its cutting-edge Micro LED technology with CJ ENM’s globally recognized content production of television series and films, Samsung is taking … Read more

3D Printed Perovskite Enables Fabrication of High Resolution Pixels

A team of researchers led by Mojun Chen within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong University along with team members from the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (Changwon-si, South Korea) have reported success in using 3D printing to create nanosized display pixels made of perovskite. First a few words of background information. Although perovskites … Read more

OLED Material Manufacturing, PPG Announce Multi-Million-Euro Investment, up to 100 New Jobs in Shannon  

Universal Display Corporation and PPG announced that OLED Material Manufacturing Ltd. (OM2) and PPG are embarking on a multi-million-euro capital investment that is expected to create up to 100 high-tech jobs at a new Shannon manufacturing site. The facility, which was announced in February 2021, will broaden the global footprint and increase the production of … Read more

ICDM Has IDMS V1.1 and Other Acronyms

One of my favourite sayings as a manager has always been “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. I’m not sure where the quote came from (Drucker and Deming are both widely identified as the source, although that doesn’t seem to be correct). However, if you have ever had any involvement in metrology, … Read more

AUO Subsidiary AUO Display Plus Collaborates with Deutsche Bahn in Building IdeasTrain City To Map New Blueprints for Urban Transportation

AUO Display Plus, a subsidiary of AUO, announced its collaboration with Deutsche Bahn AG (DB), European largest railway company, introducing the 28.6-inch TARTAN stretched display into the future concept train IdeasTrainCity (IDEENZUGCITY) that DB planned for the smart transportation, reshaping and innovating train-ride experience through the benefits of TARTAN, such as its special sizes that … Read more