What They Say
What Hi-Fi in the UK attended a press event held by Sky about the new streaming puck, but Sky also showe a demonstration of improvements to the backlights in the recently launched Glass streaming TV. The journalist that attended was impressed with the improvements that Sky has apparently been able to make to reduce haloing and other artefacts. The update is due to be released later this year or early next.
What We Think
The pressure to get a set onto the market can mean that the first version launched is not, quite, where the engineers want it to be when it is released. It sounds as though the engineering wasn’t quite finished when the set was released – it’s hard to imagine that Sky has had time to improve the algorithms themselves since the product was launched. It used to be a trope that it’s always best to wait for the third version of a piece of software. The first wqs what the firm had to release, ready or not; the second was the first with the bugs fixed; the third was the version that engineering really wanted to release. (BR)
