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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
What They Say A survey conducted in the US and completed by 2,000 adults has suggested that Out-of-Home advertising are seen as more trustworthy and relevant than other advertising. The level has increased this year and 58% of respondents indicated that they are very likely or likely to believe messaging in OOH advertisements, followed by … Read more
Interactive display sales soared in Q3, with strong performances across the globe, according to the latest quarterly tracking report from Futuresource Consulting. “The market has well and truly bounced back,” says Colin Messenger, Senior Market Analyst, Futuresource Consulting. “Particularly when we consider the supply chain challenges that surrounded COVID-19 and the mass pessimism felt across … Read more
The increase in LCD TV panel prices led to big improvements in industry margins in Q3 as shown in the next chart which takes a longer view back to 2016. Q4 2019 saw pre-tax and net margins in the industry hit new depths, as big asset impairments by LGD and CEC Panda drove these metrics … Read more
Having borrowed the gear nearly a week beforehand, I finally found some disposable time to sit down and give my son’s Oculus Quest VR a robust test drive. I was so looking forward to “taking her for a spin”. With great anticipation I held the headgear in my hands, studying how to best don the … Read more
Corning Incorporated announced a new breakthrough in glass-ceramic technology, Corning® Guardiant®. Under test methods approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), paint and coatings containing Corning Guardiant were shown to kill more than 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The tests provide the first demonstration of highly durable antimicrobial activity against SARS-CoV-2. … Read more
HTC VIVE®, the leader in premium virtual reality (VR), announced a host of new and enhanced capabilities available now for the VIVE Focus Plus, the all-in-one headset designed with the enterprise in mind. In the biggest update since the headset came to market in 2019, the features rolled out today specifically address the key operational … Read more
Samsung strengthens Smart TV voice capabilities by adding Google Assistant to 2020 TVs along with Alexa and Bixby Innolux TV assembly lines running at full capacity Digitimes said that the firm’s set factories are full. Printing Part VI – seeing what you’re printing on the Eizo CS2740 (One of my favourite photography blogs gets an … Read more
What They Say In digging around about The Void, the VR-based arcade firm, we spotted that a couple of weeks ago, the Japan Times reported that Sega Sammy Holdings will sell up its arcade games business and will sell an 85.1% stake to Genda Inc, described as an arcade game rental company. Genda will take … Read more
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