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The brightest, blackest monitor ever
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AMD’s second-gen Steam Deck APU—OLED
AMD’s handheld gaming APU paints a remarkably versatile, proven picture.
2023: It won’t be great, it won’t be awful
Temper your expectations for the year’s display technologies; it will just be OK.
Curved monitor? Certainly! How much would you like?
Recently, Corsair, the specialist in memory and gaming hardware, revealed a new OLED monitor with a bit of a different take. It got me thinking about curved displays, a topic I haven’t covered for a while. The monitor is the Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240—the name more or less defines it! The 45-inch OLED monitor is a 21:9 format 3440 × 1440 … Read more
Kopin claims breakthrough in duo-stack OLED microdisplays
Kopin has been a leading developer of micro OLED for some time and recently announced its latest implementation of its Lightning 2.6K × 2.6K OLED display has achieved breakthrough color fidelity: > 115% sRGB. This fidelity number is believed to be the world's highest achieved on duo-stack OLED microdisplays and equal to that on the best single-stack OLED microdisplays, says … Read more
CES 2020: A conference of epic proportions
With the massive media coverage of CES, high hotel costs, and almost guaranteed postshow sickness from the petri dish of global germs originating from more than 160 countries, many people opt out of attending the event. However, many others continue to brave the chaos and for good reason. The 170,000 attendees in 2020 got to see, feel, and use things … Read more
Samsung leads with new TV technology at CES
Samsung’s advertising for The Wall suggests the giant screens are much more than TVs, which makes sense in what may be the start of a post-TV era. (Source: Samsung) This year's biggest TV screens at CES this year, and last, was Samsung's The Wall. The largest, so far, is a 210-inch MicroLED TV, a vision of excess, which Samsung suggests might … Read more
CES 2019, random news
CES this year was notable for a few reasons. Great big giant TVs have fallen off the radar of the general interest tech pubs to be replaced by gadgets and bread-baking boxes. It seems TV have reached their largest practical size for home use. Practically speaking, there is a ratio for the optimum distance from screen to couch that I … Read more
Samsung’s coolest TV
Samsung's 2018 QLED TVs blend into the background when idle Since the TV is often the focal point of the living room, when it's off that blank black rectangle wastes a lot of space. To put it to better use, Samsung has introduced what it calls Ambient Mode, a low-power setting that lets the idle screen display news, weather, or … Read more
LG and Portrait demonstrate calibration tool for HDR
Like a good audio system, an HDR monitor needs tuning. LG OLED UHD TVs will have automatic calibration capability with Portrait Displays' CalMAN software. At CES, LG gave private showings to demonstrate a new capability they will be offering with their UHD displays—a photometer calibration system. If you’ve bought a medium to high-end AV system you know they come with … Read more