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Rumours of a new Samsung Galaxy A-series smartphone with a quadruple-lens primary camera have come to fruition, with the official announcement of the Galaxy A9 at a launch event on October 11th. The device features a 6.3” Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 × 2220, 392 ppi, an aspect ratio of 18.5:9 and … Read more
Eizo Rugged Solutions in the US has a new family of graphics cards for harsh environments basd on Nvidia Quadro P2000 chips. They have H.265/H.264 hardware encode/decode capability and provide a minimum 7-year lifecycle support to customers. The boards can be factory configured to a power rating of choice between 25 and 50 Watts. While … Read more
Panasonic has announced it is launching a new Ultra HD satellite TV receiver with a built-in UHD Blu-ray disc player and recorder in Japan next month. Users will be able to watch satellite TV in Ultra HD resolution and HLG HDR, while those without a UHD or HLG-compatible television will still be able to use … Read more
Xiaomi has launched the Mi Box S in the United States, a new streaming media player with Google Assistant and Chromecast features built-in. The box supports UltraHD resolution and HDR10 at 60 frames per second, powered by a quad-core 64-bit processor and an Android 8.1 operating system. Mi Box S features 8GB of internal storage … Read more
Sources close to the matter have told CNBC that a proportion of Apple’s upcoming original content will be made available for free through its TV app on Apple TV and iOS devices. The sources also claimed that a refreshed version of the app will be launched next year, adding that Apple is searching for “tent-pole”, … Read more
According to IDC, preliminary results for the third quarter of 2018 show that shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totalled nearly 67.4 million units, marking a decline of 0.9% year-on-year, unlike the second quarter, which saw growth. The third-quarter results nonetheless outperformed IDC’s forecast, which indicated a decline of 3% due to several … Read more
In the US PC market, shipments declined 0.4% compared with the third quarter of 2017, according to Gartner. While desktop shipments were flat, mobile PC shipments slightly declined compared with a year ago. The major driver of the market continued to be business PC demand. Principal analyst Mikako Kitigawa commented: “The third-quarter results confirmed the … Read more
Google has a new version of its Chromecast dongle that boosts the frame rate of 1080p video to 60fps and also adds support for Google Home speakers, so that voice control can be used to select programmes. The company has also added support for showing photos from Google photos. There is a promise of a … Read more
See-through light field displays are a possible building block for the next generation of augmented reality devices. There is, however, one standout problem associated with large size, see-through light field displays: the need for collimation optics. First, a few words of background information. There are a variety of approaches to implementing a see-through light field … Read more
Display Summit 2018 was held on Oct. 2-4 at two facilities: Harman International in Northridge, California and at the Pacific Winnetka theaters in Chatsworth, California. A 2-day symposium on the light field ecosystem and the HDR cinema ecosystem was held at the Harman facility. On Oct. 4th, a half-day session at Winnetka was devoted to … Read more
About 75 Display Summit attendees came to the bonus session at the Pacific Winnetka theater, home of the first commercial Samsung Onyx LED theater in the US. The session was kicked off by David Richards or Moving image Technologies (MiT) who was the overall system integrator for the installation. Their education on the product started … Read more
The afternoon session of October 3rd was dedicated to a number of other technologies and considerations around next generation cinema. Speaker Joe Kane, from Joe Kane Productions, focused on the creation of a single master, not just a single DCP as proposed by EclairColor. Kane thinks a peak luminance level of 300 cd/m² is fine … Read more
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