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Starting a number of years ago, but accelerating after a report about the dirt and bacteria (and worse!) on touchscreens in McDonalds fast food outlets (Synchronicity In the Dirt), there has been an increasing interest in ‘touchless touch’. I’ve written about this before (most recently Touch or Touchless Touch?) and so when I saw that … Read more
Panasonic announced the launch of its flagship OLED TV for 2021, the JZ2000, available in 65- and 55-inch sizes. Thanks to their Hollywood tuning and superb colour accuracy, Panasonic OLED TVs have always been the best choice for viewing films and high-quality TV series. Panasonic has also made the JZ2000 an excellent choice for gamers, … Read more
LG Electronics announces the introduction of webOS 6.0 for its 2021 OLED, QNED Mini LED, NanoCell and UHD smart TVs. Paired with the new Magic Remote, the latest version of the company’s acclaimed smart TV platform offers viewers a more enjoyable and intuitive content discovery experience. The upgraded LG ThinQ AI in webOS 6.0 supports … Read more
What They Say LG Display said that it will continue to make LCD panels for TVs in Korea for an additional year according to The Elec which reports that LG Electronics has found it more difficult to obtain the LCDs it needs from Sakai SIO and HKC of China. What We Think This is not … Read more
What They Say In leaks in the Korean press over the weekend and in its press event today, LG said that it will introduce a new 83″ size. It will also use the passive cooled OLEDs, first supplied by Panasonic, as the 2021 OLED evo line. There is a new AI-based processor, the Alpha 9 … Read more
LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced that it unveiled the next-generation OLED TV display with improved picture quality at CES 2021 to demonstrate the evolution of OLED technology. LG Display’s new 77-inch OLED display shows significant progress in picture quality through newly developed and highly efficient materials as well as the … Read more
What They Say LG Display said in a press release that it would add 83″ and 42″ OLEDs to its range in addition to the current 88″, 77-inch, 65″, 55″, and 48″ OLED TV displays. The 77″ will be available with the cooling plate to offer a higher brightness version (previously only available from Panasonic). … Read more
What They Say Panasonic has updated its flagship OLED TV for 2021. The panel remains the same, in 55″ and 65″ variants, but the JZ2000 now has features from HDMI2.1, support for HDR10+ Adaptive (it already had Dolby Vision IQ) and has a new processor, the HCX Pro AI processor. For game players there is … Read more
What They Say Samsung introduced the Galaxy Chromebook 2, claimed to be the world’s first QLED Chromebook. There are two configurations, based on the CPU and the display is a 13.3″ FullHD LCD with 565 cd/m² of output and 158% coverage of sRGB and 100% of DCI-P3. The $549.99 base model includes an Intel Celeron … Read more
What They Say Sony announced the new Bravia XR TV before the start of the virtual CES. The Bravia XR is described as the first ‘Cognitive Intelligence TV’ and based on a new processor that is said to have a new approach. The processor cross-analyses multiple picture elements combined with focal points to create a … Read more
Well, I signed up for the TechFluence pre-CES technology event and was pleased to see that Stephen Baker of NPD was due to speak. He’s always informative and has a good and unique point of view on the US Consumer Electronics market. After introducing NPD, Baker said that it has been an extraordinary year but … Read more
What They Say Mercedes announced the MBUX Hyperscreen the ‘big in-car cinema’. The firm introduced its MBUX technology two years ago and now there is an optional Hyperscreen for the EQS high end electric car. There are three displays integrated into a continuous plastic frame with a single 3D contoured cover glass. The centre and … Read more
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