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TV Connect 2017 Round-up

Elemental is a key provider of compression and transcoding systems for broadcasters and was one of the few companies at the ...

CEW 02 Mesa Mundi Shows Multitouch Solutions

Mesa Mundi Inc. (Sharon, MA) was showing its multitouch displays at the recent Customer Engagement World (CEW) in New York November ...

Foxconn Absorbs Smart

Smart Technologies has agreed to an acquisition offer by Foxconn, for $4.50 per share (a 21% premium over the average trading ...

Transition Period Needed for T2 Move, Says CRa

Ceske Radiokomunikace (CRa), the Czech broadcast network operator, has called for additional multiplexes to be made available during the DVB-T to ...

Graphene for the Display Market

Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a chicken wire pattern. It is a 2D material, which at only ...

Another Broadcaster Begins -T2 Testing

Westdeutscher Rundfunk, a German public broadcaster, is to begin trialing DVB-T2 in August. The tests will offer HD content in the ...

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Industry Comments on HDR

by Chris Chinnock

Elemental, which provides software-based encoding services, was showing three different HDR/SDR side by side demos. One was based on the Technicolor/Philips approach that uses PQ for conventional set top box scenarios; the second was …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Lenovo Unveils the ZUK Z2 Pro Smartphone in China

by Isaac Oburu

Lenovo released a new flagship mobile phone, the ZUK Z2 Pro. It’s the world’s first mobile phone that fully activates the performance of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 chip and integrates ten professional sensors, a true …

Tags:China| Lenovo| Smartphones

Leyard 8K Video Wall Sweeps Industry Awards at NAB 2016

by Isaac Oburu

Leyard, a global leader in visualization products and Planar, a Leyard company and global leader in display and digital signage technology, are the recipients of five of the industry’s most prestigious technology honors, NewBay …

Tags:Leyard| NAB 2016| Planar

8K at NAB 2016

by Chris Chinnock

8K was definitely present at NAB 2016, but with the exception of the Japanese broadcast community, it was more of a curiosity than anything else. NHK was in the Futures Park again with a …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Samsung Shows its Dynamic Metadata Approach for HDR

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung used NAB to showcase for the first time, its dynamic metadata approach to HDR. The results were demonstrated in a side-by side demo on identical Samsung TVs – one showing the content with …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Magic Leap A new morning

Magic Leap Keeps the Marketing Hype Up with a new Video

by Norbert Hildebrand

When you get as much money as Magic Leap from investors, you have to keep the hype up to not only make them feel good, but also to entice them, and others, to give …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 16

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Huawei Hints at Phone with QHD Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

As reported by many tech blogs (Tech Times, Phone Arena and others), Huawei is planning on upgrading a future smartphone with a QHD display (2560 x 1440). So far all Huawei branded smartphones are …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Eizo Shows HDR Prototype

by Chris Chinnock

Professional monitor maker, Eizo, was at NAB and showed a prototype of an HDR monitor. This uses an LCD panel and reaches 1000 cd/m² of peak luminance. They are working to achieve 90% of …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Eizo| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Christie Launches Pro HDR Projector

by Chris Chinnock

We met with Christie at NAB where we had a chance to see their HDR projector in action in the Christie Innovation Theater and more. But first, we wanted to clarify some of the …

Tags:3D Projection| Christie| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Fusion is New Company with OLED Grading Monitor

by Chris Chinnock

Fusion is a new UK-based company founder by two longtime broadcast industry professionals, Carl J. Dempsey and Steve Farmer. Their first product, a 55” OLED 4K-UHD monitor, is aimed at broadcast and movie production …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16