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What They Say The Stinger Report has an interesting update on a new category (to me) of VR location-based entertainment, ‘Arena-scale’ VR or ‘Free Roaming’ or ‘Walking Attractions’. Players have backpack PCs and VR headsets and are able to move freely over an area to play games. What We Think As stand-alone headsets get better, … Read more
What They Say Canalys has been in the news this week! The company put out its Q3 PC sales data and reported that the volume of notebooks (64 million) was close to the record Q4 2011 quarter, when the market hit 64.6 million. Notebooks were up 28%. The top vendors are shown in the chart. … Read more
What They Say OWC has a Thunderbolt 3 mini Dock that can support dual HDMI outputs at up to UltraHD at 60Hz. The mini-dock is just $119. What We Think Not the biggest story, but Thunderbolt really helps multidisplay support and to see relatively low cost devices must help. Note that the device doesn’t supply … Read more
What They Say Epic Games has revealed that the forthcoming GMC Hummer vehicle (to be launched next week) will have an infotainment system based on the Unreal Engine – previously developed for games. What We Think Once you have a good display and lots of data, you really need to use 3D processing to exploit … Read more
Owing to a 20% increase in TV demand in North America, as well as the fact that TV brands had deferred their shipment schedules in 1H20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of the third-quarter cyclical upturn were further compounded in 3Q20, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations. Quarterly TV shipment reached a historical high … Read more
The European channel will log its most profitable year ever this year amid a global health crisis, claims Canalys CEO Steve Brazier. Brazier used his keynote at this year’s virtual Canalys Channels… What They Say Canalys CEO, Steve Brazier, and a long term friend of Meko, has said at the Canalys Channels Forum that this … Read more
Toppan Printing, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics has responded to the recent increase in demand for contactless touch panels by developing an aerial touch display with a body that is 50% slimmer than conventional devices. The display can be operated when hands are wet or covered by gloves, thus … Read more
What They Say Nvidia has develoed a new cloud-AI-based codec for video which is claimed to reduce bandwidth by 90% compared to H.264. (Hmmm, that’s what the article said, but an example shown dropped the data rate from 97.28KB/frame to 0.1164KB/frame which is a 1000X reduction, although, of course, audio compression would not be affected) … Read more
What They Say Data from Trendforce showed that TV volumes reached a new historic high of 62.05 million units in Q3 2020, up 38.8% QoQ and 12.9% YoY partly because of deferred shipments from Q2 as well as traditional seasonality. The forecast is that the market will further grow to 64.53 million units in Q4, … Read more
ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, in collaboration with China Mobile and Migu Video, has verified 8K UHD VR live broadcast slicing in the 5G 2.6+4.9 GHz dual-frequency network architecture in Guangzhou, China, providing VR users with extremely low-latency and UHD experience. The verification … Read more
What They Say Apple’s warranty claims rate has dropped from 2.2% a year ago, to 1.2% ($1.26 billion) for the first half of 2020. What We Think Somebody in Apple’s engineering division should get congratulations and a good bonus for being behind this reduction, effectively of a billion dollars in just six months. (BR)
What They Say Sky in the UK has said that its Sky Q box will now allow the viewing of Netflix HDR titles. The platform already supported Sky Originals and Disney+ in HDR. What We Think Sky is the dominant PayTV supplier in the UK and has a strong influence. Personally, I moved away from … Read more
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