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Hitachi Launches Q Series of Big Screen Quantum Dot Android TV OS Devices 

Hitachi has announced the launch of its Q series of big screen Quantum Dot (QLED) Android TVTM OS devices. Designed in 65”/55”/50”/43” screen sizes, the frameless 4K HDR TVs bring you closer to the on-screen action, delivering higher levels of colour accuracy and detail, thanks to their QLED technology. With features, such as Dolby Vision … Read more

Not Much News Today!

What We Think As we saw over the US Memorial Day holiday, the Independence Day celebration meant another of those ‘Not Much News Today’ Days. No doubt we’ll be back with a vengeance tomorrow! (BR) (Not Much News Today….)

Broadcom Does a Deal with the FTC

What They Say Broadcom, which had already settled a dispute with the European Commission (Commission accepts Broadcom commitments for set-top chips), has now reached a similar deal with the US FTC. The company denied that it had committed any offence. “While we disagree that our actions violated the law and disagree with the FTC’s characterizations … Read more

Links Week Commencing 5th 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. DTV Europe holding a webinar on Streaming Video with Omdia and Harmonic tvOS 15 introduces redesigned video player for Apple TV app LG starts rolling out its “QNED” … Read more

3D Display Exploits Integral Imaging in Tabletop Display

A team of researchers headed by Sen-Lin Pang of the College of Electronics and Information Engineering at Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) is developing an innovative integral imaging display system. First, a few words of background information on integral imaging technology paraphrased from Wikipedia. Integral imaging is an autostereoscopic 3D imaging technique that captures and then … Read more

Planar Introduces New LEDs Optimised for Virtual Production

What They Say Planar has announced a new series, the CarbonLight VX series, that is optimised for virtual production. It features 1.9mm and 2.6mm pitch and there are models with Brompton controllers. The colour performance is up to DCI-P3 for the Planar CarbonLight CLI VX1.9 model. The LED refresh rate is 3840Hz and frame rates … Read more

The technology behind Atlanta’s Illuminarium

What They Say We’ve reported a couple of times on the Illuminarium and its partnership with Panasonic. The venue uses around 50 Panasonic projectors for ‘a combined projection of more than 3 billion pixels’. Protocol reports that to meet the needs of the venue, Panasonic developed a new custom short-throw lens partly because during the … Read more

New Planar CarbonLight VX Series Optimized for On-Camera Virtual Production  

Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, introduced the Planar® CarbonLight™ VX Series, a line of LED display solutions optimized to meet the needs of the exploding virtual production (VP) and extended reality (XR) markets. Featuring a lightweight, patented carbon fiber construction, the Planar CarbonLight VX Series supports indoor fine pitch LED video wall, ceiling … Read more