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2016 German AV Market Will Top €11 Billion

VPRT, the German commercial broadcasters’ association, has just published its autumn report with AV media forecasts for 2016. The association believes ...

DMT Has New Interface and UltraHD STB Upgrade

The final speaker was Hyung Lim from DMT in Korea, although the firm also has offices in the US. DMT has ...

Apple Awards Corning First Advanced Manufacturing Fund Investment

Apple today announced Corning Incorporated will receive $200 million from Apple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Fund as part of the company’s commitment ...

Oledon Updates at IMID

At IMID, Professor Hwang Chang-Hoon of Oledon and Dankook University has given more details of its high resolution FMM manufacturing technique ...

Panasonic Signs as Olympic Ceremony Partner

Panasonic, for the first time, will be an Official Ceremony Partner of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The company ...

Touch Taiwan: ITRI to Show Foldable AMOLED

Lee Cheng-Chung, deputy general director at Taiwan’s ITRI, has said that the organisation will show a 7″ foldable AMOLED display at ...

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VR Should be for UberGeeks

by Bob Raikes

I saw this editorial in Jon Peddie’s Techwatch newsletter. I know how to save the VR market It’s being overhyped, and that will ultimately drive consumers away—I have a plan “Commentators from all corners— …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 04

SMPTE

SMPTE Announces New Team for 2016

by Tom Allen

SMPTE has announced that its board of governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large: Chris Fetner of Netflix and Leon Silverman of Disney Digital Studio Services. Bob Edge …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| SMPTE| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Olympic Games Organizers Reject 4K

by Isaac Oburu

The CTO of the Olympic Games’ Olympic Broadcast Services has confirmed that there will be no 4K/UHD transmissions from the Rio event this summer. Sotiris Salamouris told trade magazine TVB Europe that that he …

Tags:4k| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Olympics| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 05

SMPTE

SMPTE® Announces 2016 Directors and Appointment of New Governors-at-Large

by Isaac Oburu

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), a leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, today announced that the SMPTE Board of Governors has named …

Tags:Recruitment & Appointments| SMPTE

Sony Focuses on the Details

by Tom Allen

Recently, we were invited to Sony’s UK headquarters in Surrey to view the company’s newest products – including its new TVs, recently announced at CES (Sony Hopes to Challenge OLED). Although the products were, …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| Certification| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| sony| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 05

BrightSign Looks at Social Media and HDR

by Tom Allen

BrightSign had no new media players, but nonetheless had lots to show and talk about. We caught CEO Jeff Hastings, who had obviously been kept very busy – his voice was extremely croaky by …

Tags:Beacons| Bluetooth| Brightsign| HDR - High Dynamic Range| ISE 2016| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Samsung Revives Safety Truck

by Tom Allen

Eight months ago, in June 2015, Samsung tested a truck equipped with displays on the rear, which would show the road ahead of the vehicle through a camera feed (Overtaking Problem Solved by Samsung?). …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Freesat Enjoys Market Growth

by Isaac Oburu

Freesat has announced that it added an additional 36,000 homes to its service in Q4’15. The company’s satellite TV service has added a total of 61,000 homes throughout 2015, bringing its total to 1.93 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Satellite| TV Reception| Vol 23 - Issue 05

auo

AUO Looks to GOA for Bezel-less Panels

by Tom Allen

AUO will begin to ship bezel-less panels for UltraHD TVs in Q1’16, say sources in the Asian supply chain. Instead of using bonded drivers under the bezel, the company will use gate driver on …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Netflix has HDR Plans

by Tom Allen

Netflix has already broken into the UltraHD market. Now, in an interview with Digital Trends, CPO Neil Hunt has said that the company’s next focus is HDR. All of the company’s original content is …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 05

LDM Product Roundup Vol 23 No 05

by Tom Allen

As was rumoured last month (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 03), LG has announced that its flagship G6 OLED TV will cost $8,000. The company has started to take pre-orders for the …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Pricing| Samsung| UltraHD & 4K| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Freesat now available in 1.93 million homes

by Isaac Oburu

Freesat, the subscription-free satellite TV service, today announces a strong final quarter to 2015, with the addition of 36,000 new homes in the three months to December 2015. After adding 61,000 homes over the …

Tags:Satellite