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by Bob Raikes
What They Say YouTube said that it wold bring its ‘Shorts’ vertical format short-form videos to TV screens. Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer, said: “When we introduced this new format, we optimised the experience for …
Tags:Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. I will be trying to squeeze in a …
Tags:Automotive| Desktop Monitors| Germany| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Smart Monitors| SVOD| UltraHD & 4K| USA| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the …
Tags:Android| Augmented Reality| AVOD| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| | Graphics Software| Medical| | Outdoor Displays| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
What They Say OLED-Info posted a YouTube video that shows a new LTPO AMOLED produced by Visionox and claimed to be the first LTPO panel to be made by a Chinese firm. The technology …
Tags:AMOLED| China| LTPO TFT| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Qualcomm is reported by Protocol Entertainment to be developing a chip, the SM8550, due at the end of the year or later, that will support AV1 native decoding. The article reports …
Tags:Codecs| HBO| Netflix| Qualcomm| Samsung| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
What They Say NextTV reports that Roku and Google have finally resolved their dispute over the carriage of YouTube and YouTube TV in a multi-year agreement. The dispute had gone on since April and …
Tags:Google| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Roku has had to roll back un update to its OS that had run into trouble with some apps including the YouTube app. The version that was affected was V10.5 and …
Tags:Roku| Streaming Dongles| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Image quality guru, Florian Friedrich, has published a 4 minute YouTube video that provides test material (including HDR 10 and HDR10+ metadata) for setting up HDR TVs and displays. The YouTube …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Testing| Video Quality| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
What They Say YouTube will have an add-on service to allow UltraHD streaming with 5.1 Dolby surround sound at $19.99 per month on top of the regular $64.99 YouTube TV subscription, although there is …
Tags:Streaming Video| SVOD| UltraHD (4KTV)| YouTube
by Artem Alekseenko
The 8K Association (8KA), the cross-industry group dedicated to promoting the growth of the 8K ecosystem, has started an 8K Association YouTube channel. 8K-related content is organized into three playlists for particular industry needs: …
Tags:Super Hi-Vision (8K)| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
What They Say YouTube has extended its support for HDR from uploaded content to live HDR streams. Configuration details are here. Content can be based on HLG or PQ EOTFs. What We Think More …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| YouTube
by Andrew Fenn
YouTube has launched its AV1 beta playlist, a selection of videos encoded with the AV1 video format, with which Google intends to replace its current VP9 codec. Users browsing on Chrome 70 or Firefox …
Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 36| YouTube