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HbbTV Trials Start in Finland

In Finland, Digita and Sofia Digital has started a one year trial of HbbTV services on the DTT platform provided by ...

First Public 5G Live Network Use Cases Deployed in Europe

Telia, in partnership with Ericsson and Intel, has deployed the first two live public use cases of the forthcoming 5G network ...

AptoVision Announces New Design Wins

Aptovision said that more than 25 manufacturers now incorporating its BlueRiver NT and BlueRiver NT+ AV-over-IP chipsets into more than 35 ...

HP and NVIDIA partner to create VR-ready workstations

HP Inc. today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA® to deliver workstations for 3D content creators, media professionals, game and application ...

UK Likes Subscription Services

Zuora has reported data from a YouGov poll conducted in the UK for itself, a finance solutions provider, that supports the ...

Microsoft Outlines Intelligence Vision and Announces New Innovations for Windows 10

Wednesday at Build 2016, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows and Devices Group, talked to ...

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ThinFilm Smart Label Starts to Ship

by Bob Raikes

ThinFilm Electronics of Oslo, Norway, said that it has completed the first commercial shipment of a novel hybrid temperature sensor smart label, delivering a production quantity to partner, Emerson. The company also expects to …

Tags:Electrochromic Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Lionsgate to Release First UHD Blu-ray Title in Dolby Vision

by Alan Spencer

Lionsgate is to release its first UHD Blu-ray title in Dolby Vision format with its first release being Power Rangers, 2017 version. Besides Dolby Vision HDR picture quality, the disc will also include a …

Tags:Blu-ray| Dolby Vision| Large Display Monitor| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 17

NTT Docomo Spherical Drone Display Due in 2019

by Bob Raikes

NTT Docomo has developed an unusual drone that is fitted with LEDs and that are fitted to an inner frame that rotates rapidly during flight to create a display based on the persistence of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Global Semiconductor Sales Rise 18.1% in Q1 of 2017

by Alan Spencer

Global sales of semiconductors reached $30.9 billion for the month of March, which is a rise 18.1% compared to the March 2016 total of $26.2 billion. The March 2017 total was also 1.6% higher …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Digital Video To Overtake Physical Video in Europe This Year

by Alan Spencer

According to the latest research conducted by Dataxis, the European video market will reach $12 billion by 2022. The research also showed that, last year in Europe, was the last time where the physical …

Tags:Blu-ray| DVD| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| VOD| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Display Origami

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we think of a smartphone or a phablet we do have a certain size in mind. A smartphone fits in almost every pocket, while the phablet does need a sufficiently-sized pocket. To be …

Tags:Flexible Displays| phablets| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 17

8K at NAB Round up

by Chris Chinnock

We did not do an exhaustive search for 8K equipment, but did run across a few demos. NHK was in the North Hall as usual with their 8K theater. This featured a 350” diagonal …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Perseus 2 Shown and Explained

by Chris Chinnock

V-Nova burst on the scene two years ago with a new encoding method called Perseus (Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). Many were skeptical as the company was not the most forthcoming on how it …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| V-Nova| Video Encoders & Decoders| Vol 24 - Issue 17

HDR Monitoring/QC Round Up

by Chris Chinnock

Colorfront launched its Colorfront QC Player, a system enabling post and studio facilities to perform quality control tasks on UHD and HDR content. It runs on Supermicro and HP Z840 workstations with AJA’s Kona …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 17

HDR Mastering Round up

by Chris Chinnock

Colorfront announced at NAB that its Transkoder software product has been certified by Dolby Laboratories for Dolby Vision HDR content mastering, as well as being approved by Amazon/Samsung for HDR10+ Dynamic Tone Mapping and …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

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Who Says Metadata Isn’t Coming to Broadcast?

by Chris Chinnock

One of the big issues for HDR use in broadcast is the metadata question. Broadcasters keep saying they do not want to have metadata as part of their workflow, but it exists in capture …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Camera/Viewfinder Round Up

by Chris Chinnock

Hitachi was showing the Z-HD5500 broadcast camera that they launched last year. It is an HD, not UHD resolution camera that allows the operator to use three HDR OETF curves: HLG600, HLG 1200 or …

Tags:Canon| Field Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Hitachi| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| sony| Viewfinders| Vol 24 - Issue 17