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Those that are interested in photography and are keen to get good results know that they need a good monitor and in particular one with good colour quality and contrast. But how much contrast do you need? My attention was drawn to this topic in a review of photographic technology by Dan Wells and published … Read more
What They Say The Korea Herald reported that LG has launched new office projectors in S. Korea. The BU60PST and BF60PST ProBeam projectors are based on lasers, although details weren’t given. The new models have 6.000 Ansi Lumens of output, up from 5,000 on the previous BU50NST L/P model. The BU6PST has UltraHD resoloution, from … Read more
Amino, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, announced that Cablenet, the number one cable operator in Cyprus, has begun to roll-out Amigo 7XC Android TV set-top boxes to its cable and fiber customers. Following extensive lab and field tests, the roll-out began in December 2020. Amino is providing Cablenet with the AminoOS powered … Read more
Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 5.4% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales declined 12.5% in full year 2020. “The sales of more 5G smartphones and lower-to-mid-tier smartphones minimized the market decline in the fourth quarter of 2020,” said Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner. “Even … Read more
What They Say Sigmaintell that said that sales of monitors in the Chinese market in 2020 were 34.5 million units. The forecast for 2021 is 3% in volume to 35.6 million units. 144Hz monitors have become the ‘mainstream’ according to the report and there has been an increase in popularity of 165Hz and even 240Hz … Read more
What They Say DSCC published some interesting information based on its TV cost report and highlighted that MiniLED-based TVs would compete at around the same price as WOLED sets. DSCC reports that LGD expects to sell 7M to 8M OLED TV panels in 2021, compared to 4.4M in 2020, and to help this effort it … Read more
What They Say The DVB Steering Board has approved a new and an updated specification. The update was to the DVB Targeted Advertising specification to include watermarking as an alternative way to signal where content can be inserted in a broadcast. The new specification (DVB-HB/DVB Home Broadcast) allows client devices likes smartphones, tablets or HDMI … Read more
Last week’s meeting of the DVB Steering Board approved the publication of two BlueBooks, one an updated specification and the other a new specification. The DVB Targeted Advertising specification has been updated (BlueBook A178-1r1) to include watermarking as an alternative way to signal where content can be inserted in a broadcast. DVB Home Broadcast (BlueBook … Read more
What They Say Nikkei reports that Huawei has advised its suppliers that it expects its component orders to fall by more than 60% in the face of US sanctions. It expects to make 70-80 million smartphones in 2021, down from 189 million in 2020. Even that number may be optimistic, the paper reports, based on … Read more
VIZIO Ads, the award winning TV company’s direct-to-device advertising business, unveiled Universal Frequency Control, a new capability that enables brands to set limits on how often a VIZIO TV within a household is exposed to specific ad creative when placing an ad through its platform. Solving one of the biggest problems plaguing the over-the-top and … Read more
What They Say Roku had a good Q4 and good year in 2020 overall. The company went past 50 million active acounts, via players and Roku TVs and the company claimed 38% share of SmartTVs sold. For the year, revenue was up 58% to $1.778 billion and ARPU grew from $23.14 to $28.76 from Q4 … Read more
Solas OLED Ltd., an Irish company that specializes in OLED technologies that it licenses to consumer electronics manufacturers, has announced that it has entered into a Settlement and License Agreement with LG Display Co. resolving a number of patent infringement actions brought by Solas against LG Display and a certain number of its customers, including … Read more
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