Panasonic’s system chip division was in hall 8 and showing new scaler chips for low latency FullHD to UltraHD upscaling. The chips use “super resolution” technology and are said to have very low latency of 0.1 of a frame. The company also told us that it will have a new HEVC decoder chip by Q2 of this year.
The PRV55OLEDHDBT is a 55″ OLED display from Primeview, supporting HDBaseT connectivity. It is positioned for the professional AV market and is available for pre-order now, but Primeview was not sharing any more details. The HDBaseT Alliance‘s stand also held a Primeview OLED display: the 49″ PRV494KLEDHDBT.
Laser-phosphor display maker Prysm was showing its existing Cascade and Olympic lines. The Olympic unit was a 9×7 wall with a 5° curve, for broadcast applications. LPDs have very thin bezels but also very large pixels, so are ideal for large videowall use. An 84″ UltraHD LCD display, with 32-point multitouch, was also being demonstrated.
LED displays are a focus for PSCo this year, said CEO Stuart Holmes. The distributor is looking for a new sub-2mm partner for 2016. However, other LFDs are still performing well, especially videowalls and projectors. This year, PSCo is revamping its service centre to offer service to non-partner companies. The company is also talking to Samsung about its new LED products, introduced at CES, to become a UK distributor.
Purelink showcased its DCI-4k scaling technology, Motore, using it in a Puremedia matrix switcher/scaler. Motore can scale up or down and convert frame rates, up to DCI-4k at 60fps. In the demo, a 1920 x 1080 source was played on an UltraHD display at 30fps and UltraHD content at 24fps was downscaled to 1920 x 1080. Distribution options include HDMI, DVI, HDBaseT and fibre.
LED company Retop was demonstrating its existing PH 2.0 2mm-pitch display. Additionally the company, based in China, used ISE to announce a large-scale (30,000-unit) rollout of 6mm- and 8mm-pitch LED displays with a petrol station chain in its home market.
Ricoh was showing video-conferencing systems.
We had a chance to catch up with Stream TV, producer of the Ultra-D glasses-free 3D system. Pegatron, which is overseeing the supply chain for the company’s displays, will begin tooling up in April and begin mass-production in June. New partners will be announced at NAB, said Duncan Humphreys, Stream TV’s head of production.
Thinklogical showed its new TLX KVM matrix switches and extenders; these use a new 10Gbps architecture and can deliver incompressed DCI-4k video, at 60Hz and with 4:4:4 subsampling, over fibre or Cat-X. Latency is said to be measured in microseconds and there are no visual artefacts or judder. A single cable can transfer DCI-4k at 30Hz tro a single display; two cables are required for 60Hz. The Q-1300 supports a single extender module; the Q-2300 supports two; and the Q-4300 supports four.
Xilinx, the developer of FPGA technology and was highlighting that even its smaller and mid-range FPGAs are powerful enough to support HDMI 2.0 for 4k & UltraHD applications. The company will say a lot more at NAB
Zigen showed five new products. First was the ZIG-POE-70, an HDMI extender using HDBaseT to extend HDMI to 70m, with PoE and up to UltraHD resolution (60fps, 4:2:0 subsampling); next, the ZIG-POEWP-100, which can be used as a stand-alone HDBaseT wall plate transmitter, or used with the ZIG-POE-RXAV (also new) receiver/scaler & audio amplifier. The unit features HDMI and VGA inputs. Other products were new input cards, such as the ZIG-PS-61, which features an LG WebOS interface.
ZTE was in the video-conferencing area, with no displays to show.
