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Taiwan Startup Launches Smart Wearables for the Elderly

by Andrew Fenn

Taiwan-based wearable startup, Zoetek, has introduced a range of products designed for the elderly, including a smart garment that can read temperature and detect falls, as well as incorporating GPS and emergency phone call …

Tags:Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 25 - Issue 15| Wearables

OTT Services Made $11.9 Billion in the US Last Year

by Andrew Fenn

OTT TV services in the US generated $11.9 billion in 2017, a year-on-year growth of 41%, according to Convergence Research Group. The firm also expects revenues to climb this year, up to $16.6 billion—another …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 16

V-Nova Adds Machine Learning, New U.S. Customer

by Chris Chinnock

V-Nova told us at NAB 2018 that it now has multiple customers delivering live 1080p content at less than 1 Mbps. 720p content can be delivered at 450Kbps and 360p content at 120Kbps. The …

Tags:Encoders| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2018| V-Nova| Vol 25 - Issue 15

UHD Forum and UHDA Update

by Chris Chinnock

The UHD Forum teamed up with the UHD Alliance in the Futures Park area. The two groups are collaborating for the first time. This is partly motivated by the maturing of UHD and some …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2018| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 25 - Issue 15

TVLogic Demos HDR Grading Monitor

by Chris Chinnock

TVLogic’s LU310R is their top of the line 31” 4K grading monitor. Like the Flanders offering (Flanders Shows HDR Monitors), this monitor uses the Panasonic dual-panel approach with 2048 LEDs and a dimmable backlight. …

Sharp Highlights 8K and More

by Chris Chinnock

There were no new products in the Sharp booth but they were highlighting professional products and applications. In 8K for example, digital signage was being showcased as a 4 x 4 video wall using …

Scenarist Says Packaged Media is Far from Dead

by Chris Chinnock

Scenarist is a company that develops packaged media authoring tools to help with the authoring, replication and distribution of DVDs, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray disc. At NAB 2018, they told us that DVDF …

Postium Shows 4K/HDR Grade 1 Monitor

by Chris Chinnock

Korea-based Postium showed their new reference grade 4K/HDR monitor at NAB. The OBM-X310 is a 31.5” monitor based upon the dual-panel design from Panasonic. The monitor goes for the fixed (i.e. non dimmable) backlight …

Panasonic Pitches 8K Sports Acquisition

by Chris Chinnock

Most of the Panasonic booth was about cameras, but one use of an 8K camera caught our eye. In Panasonic’s view, sporting events can now be covered with only three 8K cameras instead of …

NHK’s 8K Update

by Chris Chinnock

NHK was in the Futures Park area again in 2018 to showcase what it is doing in 8K. While trial broadcasting of 8K began in Japan in August of 2016, regular programming is now …

Marshall Electronics Shows Rack-Mount Monitors

by Chris Chinnock

Marshall only had one new display, the AR-DM61BT which is specifically designed as an audio monitoring device. It also showed its M-LYNX-702W, a 7” 1280 x 720 display with HDMI and 3G-SDI inputs with …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 15

LED Screens at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

Absen had a very nice looking booth with a big curved LED screen above the booth providing a “sports book” atmosphere. This display featured their 2.9mm LEDs and exhibited no screen door effect from …