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My second article from the HPA Tech Retreat is a little ‘down in the weeds’ of HDR and the talk I’m covering was given by Dr. Charles Poynton, whose book on digital video I read over twenty years ago and an independent expert on colour and video. His topic was ‘a definition of scene-referred’ video. … Read more
MediaTek and Samsung introduced the world’s first 8K QLED TV – the flagship Samsung 8K QLED Y21 – powered by MediaTek’s MT7921AU, delivering the fastest connectivity experiences through its cutting-edge Wi-Fi 6E capabilities. Following their announcement of the world’s first Wi-Fi 6 enabled 8K TV in 2020, MediaTek and Samsung are yet again driving the … Read more
Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, announced an expansion to the company’s portfolio of fine pitch LED display solutions with the release of the Planar® MGP Series. The new family of fine pitch LED video wall displays introduces affordable solutions that are suitable for replacing legacy display technology. Planar MGP Series makes fine pitch … Read more
What They Say The Wall St Journal had a round-up of recent announcements including a useful forecast for AR headsets from IDC. We recreated the chart from the data. One of the bits of news in an increasing level of activity was news from Niantic (the developers of Pokémon Go) which is developing a headset … Read more
What They Say Hologate VR, based in Germany and a developer of LBE VR, said that its number of users has now got back to 90K per week, which is the level of early 2020, before the impact of Covid-19. The firm said that one of its distributors in the US had seen ‘completely full’ … Read more
What They Say In the course of a recent correspondence with Ross Young of DSCC, he mentioned that sometimes we have referred to forecasts for foldable devices that are higher or different from those from his firm. He pointed out that you have to be careful to properly identify the difference between panels, set production … Read more
Sony announced that that pre-orders are opening now for the BRAVIA XR X90J 4K HDR Full Array LED TVs. The latest BRAVIA XR TVs to become available from Sony come equipped with the new Cognitive Processor XR™, which employs a completely new processing method going beyond conventional AI, designed to replicate the ways humans see … Read more
Joining Apple, Samsung, LG, XDisplay, PlayNitride, Facebook and others, newcomers are accelerating microLED patenting activity. OUTLINE: IP landscape:8900+ patents filed by close to 480 organizations now represent a cumulated total of 4093 families selected for the corpus in this study.40% (1637) of the 4093 patent families have been published in 2020 alone (81% over the … Read more
In 1789 Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a member of the French National Assembly, spearheaded the passing of a law that required all death sentences to be carried out by “means of a machine,” so decapitations would be as painless as possible. On April 5, 2021, in a similar humanitarian spirit, LG’s Board of Directors removed the … Read more
US based LED visualization solution provider, NanoLumens, announced an addition to their highly acclaimed HDS series in their Engage™ family. NanoLumens 0.93 HDF product has been upgraded to join the HDS Series line up. This new iteration of the Engage Series™ brings an upgraded, universal, ultra-thin, and cableless version. Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, … Read more
What They Say As expected, following the Bravia announcements at CES, Sony has now announced that its Bravia Core content service has now been included with its 2021 Bravia XR TVs.(Sony Reveals 2021 TV Plans) The service is a high quality (up to 80 Mbps – the equivalent of Blu-ray) streaming service for content from … Read more
VITEC, a worldwide leader in IP video streaming solutions, today announced the strategic acquisition of Exterity Limited, the award-winning, market-leading provider of integrated IPTV, digital signage and user engagement technologies. The move signals VITEC’s intention to accelerate growth and strengthen its leadership position, with natural technology and customer synergies between the two companies that will … Read more
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