Arris announced two new commercial satellite receivers that support the DVB-S2X satellite technology and the HEVC codec with resolutions up to UltraHD. The DSR-7412 Integrated Receiver/Transcoder and DSR-4470 Integrated Receiver/Decoder are both intended for applications which may need HEVC or can be used to transcode to MPEG 2/4 HD and SD formats for supporting legacy STBs (up to 12 channels on the DSR-7412).
We reported on the new Optoma ZU650+ a week or so ago and now he have had clarification of the improved colour performance (Optoma ZU650+ Has Improved Colour). The company has since clarified that the new projector has a better red bringing it closer to Rec. 709 coordinates and allowing the projector to achieve 98% of Rec. 709. The company also said that it has started to ship four 400UST models that it announced at ISE (DuraCore from Optoma Offers 5 Year/30K Hour Warranty).
Matrox has upgraded the C680 graphics card, which has six outputs, to include 4GB of onboard memory.
The Matrox C680 now has 4GB of memory
Shuttle in Germany has released two small Android-based (5.1.1 – Lollipop) media players that can support UltraHD output via HDMI 2.0. The NS02 and NS02E units are the same, with one, the NS02E, operating using PoE rather than needing a power supply. The boxes are based on Rockchip RK3368 Octa Core Cortex-A53 64 Bit processors and PowerVR SGX6110 GPU with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. An add-on bay is available for external HDDs or SDDs. Pricing is €131 for the NS02 and €143 for the NS02E.
Shuttle’s NS02E supports PoE operation
