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As I wrote in my previous article, “Cleaning Things Up: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age”, many of us are now hyperaware (almost to the point of bacillophobia) of cleaning often-used equipment surfaces in the education sector. One educator summarizes the covid-cleaning predicament in schools and universities in this way: “The problem with the virus … Read more
What They Say FilMiC Pro is an app for high quality video capture on iOS and Android devices and the developer has now been upgraded to support HDR in 10 bit Dolby Vision on the iPhone 12. The app was used to film the promotional video for a recent Lady Gaga single as it includes … Read more
What They Say Nikkei, in cooperation with Tokyo-based research specialist Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, stripped down an iPhone 12 and found that 26.8% of the value of the smartphone was accounted for by components from Korea, ahead of the share of US-made parts. The main reason for the high share was the use of OLEDs. The … Read more
Smart TVs have taken over the TV market to dominate, but not all TVs have ‘smarts’. The reality has always been that the TV market is incredibly price sensitive and so there is still a segment of the market that cannot afford the processors needed to add the clever functions for streaming etc. Could there … Read more
NetRange MMH GmbH, the global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, announced that it has launched its cloud-powered VISNOS (Virtual Smart TV NetRange OS) platform to slash CE device manufacturers’ Smart TV costs and enable existing low-powered TVs to receive Smart TV services. The NetRange VISNOS platform removes the requirement for a … Read more
When I did a search of the Display Daily website for the term ‘Disruptive’, there were 166 articles identified. However, looking through them, I had to go back to a Display Daily I wrote four years ago (Why Big Companies Can Struggle to Innovate) to see an article that used the term as defined by … Read more
What They Say NEC said that Star Alliance Biometrics has been introduces for frequent flyers at Frankfurt and Munich airports for customers of Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines. The system uses touchless biometrics to allow security clearance and boarding, although not all points are yet equipped, so boarding passes must still be carried. What … Read more
Portrait Displays, global leader in color calibration solutions and advanced display control, has partnered with European electronic retailer giants, MediaMarkt and Saturn, to expand their extensive range of services to include the professional calibration of TVs using Calman® color calibration software. Customers across Germany can experience blockbuster-worthy pictures in their own home with the introduction … Read more
What They Say Speaking at the Spanish UHD Summit (no doubt virtually!), Omdia’s Senior Research Manager, Paul Gray, has said that he thought that 2021 will be a “tremendous” year for the take-up of 4K. That will be because of “the very rich pipeline of sports events”. Gray also recognised that 8K prospects should not … Read more
New research in Parks Associates’ The Next ‘Big 3’ in OTT finds 61% of US broadband households subscribe to two or more OTT services as of 3Q 2020, up from 48% the previous year. Forty-five percent subscribe to three or more, up from 27%, and 31% subscribe to four or more, up from 14%. The … Read more
What They Say The Elec reports that Apple would like to adopt OLED for its iPad Pro tablets next year, but has asked LG Display and Samsung Display to develop tandem OLEDs, with a additional emissive layer, to improve the life time of the materials. This was not seen as needed for smartphones, but the … Read more
What They Say FlatpanelsHD as done a deepish dig into the weeds of HDMI2.1 to try to illuminate some of the aspects of the bandwidth specifications often quoted on TVs. It also looks at the longer term issues of variable support for different features. What We Think The problem that every feature in an HDMI … Read more
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