Germany’s high-end TV manufacturer Loewe has announced that new investors will be taking over the business, in a move that should secure the company for the foreseeable future. The investor’s consortium is made up of the Munich-based investment firm Panthera GmbH, as well as former Apple and Bang & Olufsen executives Constantin Sepmeier and Stefan Kalmund. The deal, which was ... Read More »
New research from market analysis firm IHS appears to have confirmed the bad news given to us by Samsung last week – that it’ll be several years before OLED TV hits the mainstream, as all bar one television maker focus their efforts on ultra high-definition (UHD) displays instead. OLED has rapidly won over legions of fans since we saw the ... Read More »
There’s no end to the 4K Ultra HD bandwagon with yet more announcements in the wake of last week’s CES, where we were treated to a fabulous first glimpse of curvy, flexible 4K TVs. This week though, it’s not so much about the hardware, but finally, about what we might be able to watch on our dazzling new displays. 4K ... Read More »
It turned out that Samsung had a flexible OLED television on display at CES 2014 too, despite not making a big hoo-ha about it. Note that Samsung’s bendable OLED is not the same as its 85-inch LCD-based prototype unveiled a few days earlier. That the company neither made any public announcement about this nor showcase any other OLED TVs is ... Read More »
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has approved extending the Blu-ray format to include 4K, & aims to agree on a standard by year's end. Read More »