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Hispasat and MBS Collaborate on UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Hispasat and Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) in Germany have made an agreement to allow the teleport of MBS in Usingen, Germany, to be used to transmit UltraHD content to Hispasat satellites at 30º West. …

Tags:4k| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Opera TV is Now Vewd

by Bob Raikes

Opera TV changed its name and corporate identity at IBC (apparently we were not the first to suggest that we thought “Lewd, vewd” when we saw the new name!) and we met up with …

Tags:HTML5| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 35

TADF Symposium Attracts 150

by Bob Raikes

Unfortunately, the overload of IFA, IBC and Cedia meant that we were unable to get to a couple of other September events, including the 2017 International TADF Symposium in Frankfurt, hosted by Cynora. Cynora …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 35

IFA & IBC Offer Different Views on the TV Industry

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this week’s editorial in the press room of IBC – the overload from IFA caused our production of the regular weekly issue to slip so, frustratingly, I have been head down over …

Tags:Broadcast| Editorial| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IBC 2017| IFA 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 34

Advantech DLoG Offers Mirror Display Option

by Bob Raikes

Advantech DLog has a new mirror display that has a 42.5″ display with FullHD resolution and 450 cd/m². The UTC-542 display is also available with a PCap touch interface and as a regular display …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 34

Xiaomi Updates Mi Mix and Mi Note phablet

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has a new Mi Mix smartphone and a new Mi Note phablet. The new Mi Mix follows the same design concept as the previous version and uses an 18:9 display in a 6″ …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34| Xiaomi

DVDO Tile Supports Five Users on Display

by Bob Raikes

DVDO has a new wireless connectivity solution that allows up to five different windows to be simultaneously on a single display. Wired connections can also be used and the controller box has five HDMI …

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IBC 2017 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

ABox42 of Germany was highlighting its range of IoT solutions that exploit its STBs and are organised around very specific use cases e.g. home owner, parent. The company told us that both Deutsche Telekom …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Codecs| Flexible Displays| IBC 2017| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NEC| OLEDs| STBs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Test Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 35

IFA Busy with OLEDs and HDR

by Bob Raikes

We’ve got to the end of another IFA. The show was interesting but is not as interesting from a technology point of view as CES – and there’s a reason for this. Because of …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 33

IFA 2017 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Aiptek, the specialist in pico-projectors, was showing the AN100, a really small projector that can produce 100 lumens of HD output and includes a full Android 5.1 system. Features include content playback from SD …

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Chinese Handset Makers Look to LGD for OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Business Korea reports that four Chinese smartphone makers are planning to adopt flexible OLEDs from LG Display in new smartphones in 2018. Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi are all said to have confirmed plans …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34

DSCC Sees Buoyant Dispay & Equipment Markets

by Bob Raikes

DSCC has published a blog with its data on the sales by panel makers in Q2 2017 which rose 1% compared to Q2 and by 25% year on year to $26.8 billion. There was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 35