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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….)
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
In the first of these articles, I looked at ideas in automotive and TV design that are enabled by the flexibility of OLEDs. Today I’m looking at an interesting use in aviation. (OLEDs –Revolutionizing the Essence of Product Design – Part 1) Boeing and Airbus are experimenting with groundbreaking large-format OLED displays which will disrupt … Read more
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
What They Say It’s quiet with the US July 4th holiday, so I’m drifting slightly off the display hardware topic. Nvidia has, in beta and only for those running Windows 10 with a suitable Nvidia GPU, a project called Canvas that uses the GPU and AI to create photo=realistic images from rough sketches. As well … Read more
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
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
What They Say Barrons.com reported research from Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney who said that Facebook is on track to sell more than eight million Quest 2 headsets in the the first year. He believes that the firm has sold five to six million units to date. That would mean that the headset represents around … Read more
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
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
What They Say TrendForce put out its view of the high end TV market, where brands will focus, and away from the small/medium set market because of supply side and profitability issues. QLED sets are forecast to reach 11.02 million units, up 22.4% on 2020 while OLED TVs will reach 7.1 million, up 80%. Samsung … Read more
After peaking at $259 billion in 2019, pro AV industry revenue dropped to $214 billion globally in 2020 due to the pandemic, according to the new 2021 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA) produced by AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. IOTA forecasts revenue will reach $232 billion in 2021 and grow to … Read more
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