AV Rant #950: Sasi Annexes the Podcast
What a year it’s been already. No What We Watched section this week. Disney bought Fubo TV and cancelled Venu Sports Streaming. Samsung & Google made Eclipsa Audio official as a new immersive audio format. Onkyo announced their Creator and Icon Series products. Panasonic might have the brightest OLED TV Series this year with their Z95B. Hisense 116UX uses RGB Trichroma mini-LED backlights.
Pictures shown in this episode: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBYc3W
00:00:00 – Intro
00:15:00 – Listeners of the Week
Our Listeners of the Week are Eliezer for his PayPal donation, plus our 132 Patreon Patrons, as well as James for sending Rob some LTT Store items, and Dan for making a pair of awesome drink coasters for Rob.
We also appreciate the notes of gratitude for keeping the podcast going from: Sasi, Gurinder, Nathan, Stefan, Bret, Dazz, and Ilango. Thank you to everyone for continuing to listen!
In the news:
00:21:23 – News: Venu Sports Cancelled
Disney bought 70% of Fubo TV. Then agreed to discontinue Venu Sports.
– Disney + Fubo: https://tinyurl.com/388mjw47
– Venu no more: https://tinyurl.com/5yk7j9e6
00:26:28 – News: Eclipsa Audio vs Atmos
Samsung & Google gave their open-source immersive audio format a name: https://tinyurl.com/2wt7vk4p
00:29:13 – News: Onkyo Creator & Icon
All of Onkyo’s pre-CES hype was for two pairs of desktop speakers and some 2-channel gear: https://onkyo.com/intl/ces
00:35:10 – News: Panasonic Z95B OLED
It’s the 4-layer WOLED panel from LG plus built-in Atmos from Technics and Panasonic’s cooling: https://tinyurl.com/2p9nsnh6
00:36:50 – News: Hisense 116UX Trichroma mini-LED
The biggest LCD (by 1 inch) and new RGB Trichroma mini-LED backlighting: https://youtu.be/FR47Ju4KXG8
Comments:
00:39:41 – Comment: Jay – OTA Dolby Vision & Atmos on NBC
Sunday Night Football is in Dolby Vision & Atmos if you have a NextGenTV tuner: https://www.dolby.com/us-sports/
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