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Category Archives: TV/4K/UHD/8K
20 Awesome Things We Saw at the IFA Tech Show
IFA, Europe’s biggest consumer electronics show, is always a hotbed of new products introductions. This year’s show was especially rich in innovative, unique, and even eye brow-raising new gear. After walkiing the two-dozen-plus buildings that house IFA on the Messe … Continue reading
Posted in cell/smartphones, headphones, IFA, music players/speakers, smart home, smart locks, TV/4K/UHD/8K, VR/AR
Tagged 8K, Amazon, Babeyes, Black Panther, blender, Bosch, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange, external hard drive, Fire TV, juicer, Lenovo, LG, Marvel, Miele, Mirage AR, Move, Netgear, OLED, Orbi, Panasonic, PowerWatch, quantum dot, refrigerator, robot vacuum, Samsung, Scosche, Seagate, smart watch, Sonos, Sonos MOve, Sony, SSD, Star Wars, Star-Lord, stick vacuum, sun glasses, TCL, Thor, vacuum, Wi-Fi 6
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Will 8K TV Follow 4K’s Quick Adoption Pattern?
Industry observers and executives alike remain stunned at how, in just five relatively short years, 4K UHD TVs transformed from a pricey curiosity to a race-to-the-bottom commodity. Based on this perhaps flawed phenomena, the industry is optimistic that 8K will follow the … Continue reading
GfK: Overall Consumer Tech Business Will Be Flat Or Down In 2019
Political uncertainty, trade wars and regional economic worries are shaking consumer confidence, and TV prices continue a precipitous decline. These and other factors will combine to produce an overall slightly down year in overall consumer technology sales, according to market research company … Continue reading
Posted in cell/smartphones, IFA, music players/speakers, smart home, TV/4K/UHD/8K, TWICE
Tagged 8K, 8K Association, GfK, IFA
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New Viable Video Codecs on the Way? Maybe
Dissatisfaction with video codec royalty rates, lack of licensor transparency and complicated licensing terms have been perpetual complaints of many commercial video content purveyors. Not surprisingly, some would like to see a shake-up in the current system of how intellectual … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Technology Consulting, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged 4K, 8K, Advanced Video Coding, Amazon Prime, AV1, AVC, DTH, Essential Video Coding, EVC, H.265, HEVC, HEVC Advance, IPTV, MPEG LA, MPEG-4, MPEG-5, Netflix, satellite TV, streaming, UHD, Velos, Versatile Video Coding, video coding, VP9, VVC, YouTube
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Will 8K Dampen 4K TV Sales?
“This industry loves to eat its young” is an observation often attributed to Dave Workman, president and CEO of the ProSource buying group. With TV makers and retailers yearning for higher margin 8K TVs, could slim margin 4K sets be … Continue reading
Posted in TV/4K/UHD/8K, TWICE
Tagged 4K, 8K, 8K TV, full array, HDR, large screen, LG, OLED, OLED TV, quantum dot, Samsung, Sony, TCL, UHD
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25 Years Ago Today: DirecTV Is Born
On a sweltering Friday morning, June 17, 1994, Lemoyne Martin strode past a queue of around 150 other potential buyers and a phalanx of media at Cowboy Maloney’s 1-55 North store. He handed over nearly $1,000 to tuxedo-clad salesman, Ty … Continue reading
Posted in Sound & Vision, Tech History, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged DBS, DirecTV, DISH, satellite TV
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‘Game of Thrones’ Exposes HDR, Video Compression Issues
“The night is dark and full of terrors” was never truer than in the Game of Thrones installment Season 8, Episode 3, “The Long Night” (aka “The Battle of Winterfell”). While viewers rapturously recapped and reviewed the episode’s heroes and villains, … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Technology Consulting, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged 1080, 4K, 8K, Arya Stark, Game of Thrones, HBO, HDR, HEVC, Jon Snow, Mother of Dragons, SDR, television, TV, Video compression, Winterfell
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The 8K TV Shanda
TV makers, attempting to cure themselves of their self-inflicted 4K narrow-margin woes, are again hawking a shiny new—and expensive—technology that offers few near-term consumer benefits. The question for TV makers and the marketplace is this: Will 8K provide more evidence … Continue reading
Posted in CES, Digital Technology Consulting, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged 3D, 4K, 802.11ax, 8K, 8K Association, 8KA, ATSC 3.0, AV1, CES, Fraunhofer, HDMI 2.1, HEVC, HFR, LG, OLED, QLED, Samsung, Sony, TCL, VVC, Wi-Fi 6
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My CES 2019 Coverage
Here’s some of my coverage of CES 2019 for the TWICE Show Daily, distributed daily on the show floor. CES 2019 Was The 8K TV Show – For 8K TV Vendors CES 2019: TV Makers Form 8K Association CES 2019: … Continue reading
Posted in CES, smart home, TV/4K/UHD/8K, TWICE
Tagged 4K, 8K, Alexa, Amazon, Android, Android TV, AR, Carnival Cruise, CES, CES2019, Changhong, Far Field, Google Assistant, Hisense, Las Vegas, LED, LG, MicroLED, OLED, Pharell Williams, QLED, Samsung, Sharp, Skyworth, smart home, Sony, Spider-Man, TCL, TV, VC, VR, wireless power
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