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New consumer research from Parks Associates finds households with children, particularly those ages 6-11, are the leading demographic groups for technology product and entertainment service purchasing. Households with Children: Dominant Tech Purchasers finds 38% of US broadband households with children plan to buy a smart video doorbell over the next 12 months, compared to 14% … Read more
Huion, one of the leading manufacturers of graphic input devices, launched two 21.5-inch pen displays, namely Kamvas 22 and its higher configuration version Kamvas 22 Plus. These two pen displays again demonstrate the diversity of Huion products, which enable users to choose a more suitable device based on their budgets and needs. The most exciting … Read more
Strong/MDI Screen Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ballantyne Strong, Inc., and a leader in projection screen manufacturing and optical coating development for cinemas, commercial venues and amusement parks worldwide (“Strong MDI”), is pleased to announce its Precision White Cinema Screen will now be available for use by all cinemas worldwide. “We have found … Read more
Quantum dots are extremely small fluorescent nanoparticles typically between 10 to several thousand atoms, and 1 to 9 nanometers in diameter. The electronic characteristics of quantum dots are determined by their chemical composition, size, and shape. Quantum dots have the concept of energy level, bandgap, conduction band, valence band those are same as for normal … Read more
There is something ironic about SID Display Week this year. The week-long conference about display technology will be viewed exclusively on displays. I have always though it strange that the lowest form of display (the poorly focused conference projector with color gamut ~50% of sRGB) is what we all stare at for hours on end … Read more
Conventional optical components typically derive light manipulating capabilities from their shape and/or material composition. On the other hand, there are optical components that can manipulate light based on an entirely different approach. This approach is based on so-called metasurfaces. Such components are also able to modify the polarization, phase or amplitude of visible light but … Read more
Welcome to Part 2 of Bitmovin’s Video Tech Deep Dive series: Super-Resolution with Machine learning. Before you get started, I highly recommend that you readSuper Resolution: What’s the buzz and why does it matter?. But if you would rather prefer to directly jump into it, here is a quick summary: Spatially upsampling videos is a … Read more
The second quarter of 2020 (2Q20) ended well for the Traditional PC market, comprised of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, with global shipments growing 11.2% year over year reaching a total of 72.3 million units, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. As restrictions around the world … Read more
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 64.8 million units in the second quarter of 2020, a 2.8% increase from the second quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. After a significant decline in the first quarter of the year due to COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions, the PC market returned to growth as vendors restocked … Read more
After devoting several years to its research and standardization, Fraunhofer HHI (together with partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Sony) is celebrating the release and official adoption of the new global video coding standard H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC). This new standard offers improved compression, which reduces data requirements by around … Read more
A couple of months ago, in ‘What Bob Saw’, I pointed to a story that would have been almost inconceivable a couple of years ago. The story was a link to the first OLED TV from Sharp. Now, from any other TV brand (apart from Samsung), the news of an OLED TV would not be … Read more
The media industry lacks a clearly defined picture of how bitrate optimization impacts the viewer experience, according to a recent survey of OTT providers, broadcasters and multichannel video providers. The survey, which aggregated input from 300 respondents, showed wide variations in the methodologies used to understand optimization, and in how metrics are collected. While more … Read more
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