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Altice-Cablevision Create USA’s Fourth-Largest Operator

by Bob Raikes

Altice has acquired Cablevision Systems Corporation, for $17.7 billion, a deal that creates the fourth-largest cable operator in the USA. Cablevision serves the US metropolitan area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut), with a …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Canon Expo View

by Bob Raikes

Held once every 5 years, the Canon Expo in NYC was a tour de force of products, innovation and technology

Tags:Canon| Canon New York 2015

Dolby Explains HDR

by Bob Raikes

Dolby gave a talk as one of the SES seminars at the event. Arnd Paulsen of Dolby started by talking about human vision and its capabilities. The aim is to deliver content that matches …

Hollywood Excited by HDR & WCG and “The sparkle in actors’ eyes”

by Bob Raikes

Unfortunately the joys of torrential rain and Monday morning Amsterdam traffic meant that we missed the very beginning of the Pixar/ILM keynote. The discussion when we sneaked in was about the use of different …

DVB Says HDR Will be in EU in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Helmut Stein opened the annual DVB IBC press event. Phil Laven, the DVB Chairman, was the first speaker. Laven started by talking about HEVC – he said that without it, UltraHD would not be …

AirTies Teases us With “Same Old Stuff”

by Bob Raikes

We met with Turkey-based Wi-fi specialist AirTies, in particular CEO Bülent Çelebi, who had a very nice bottle of chilled white wine on his table just as the exhibition was winding down on Sunday …

Tags:IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37| Wi-Fi

HiSilicon Looking to the High End

by Bob Raikes

HiSilicon is a company that we have not seen at IBC before. The company has been making a lot more noise recently and we visited after spotting that it had become a Dolby Vision …

Ruwido Highlights “Organic Haptic” Experience

by Bob Raikes

We caught up with Ferdinand Maier of Salzburg-based Ruwido, which makes high quality remote controls and software for the STB user interfaces to go with them. First we looked at one of the regular …

EBU Looks at HFR & HDR

by Bob Raikes

The EBU was showing various demonstrations and we looked at the BBC/NHK hybrid log demo, which the EBU is positive about, and also at a demonstration of high frame rates – material shot at …

TVLogic Prepares Monitors for NAB

by Bob Raikes

TVLogic usually has some new monitors to show and this event was no exception. First we looked at a new 17″ FullHD monitor that is designed for checking 4K content and can downscale 12G …

Marshall Adds New Monitor Features

by Bob Raikes

Marshall is a regular exhibitor at IBC. First we looked at the high end broadcast rack-mounted monitors that are in configurations with 4/3/2 or one display up to 32″ in a single chassis. MD …

IBC 2015 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

German STB maker, ABox42, was showing a new middleware solution that it has developed that is called ABox42 OPA (Operator Android). The middleware allows for the development of Android boxes with security for pay …