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Philips 40″ Curved Monitor Ships

Philips has started shipping the new version of its 40″ display, the BDM4037UW that we saw at IFA (Philips Launches First OLED TV with Ambilight). The UltraHD monitor has a wider colour gamut of 85% of NTSC (whatever that is useful for! – Man. Ed.). The new monitor uses a curved display (3000R) with an … Read more

A New Means to Produce Graphene Has Display Applications

This week’s news contained a report that, for the first time, OLED electrodes have been produced from graphene. The process was developed and optimized as part of an EU-funded program called the “Gladiator” project. The more formal name for the project is Graphene Layers: Production, Characterisation and Integration. Partners in this project are The Fraunhofer … Read more

Ultra HD Blu-ray Players at CES 2017

CES 2017 saw the launch of several new Ultra HD Blu-ray disc players from existing players and some new companies as well. According to the Blu-ray Disc Association, roughly 300K standalone Ultra HD Blu-ray players were sold in 2016 along with 2 million discs, which represents an impressive 6:1 disc/player attach rate. As of CES … Read more

Qualcomm Moves to 10nm with 820/821

Qualcomm held the first press event of the 2017 event, just before the ‘official’ opening event by the CTA. Keith Kressin started by saying that Qualcomm started by moving the mobile phone from analogue to digital. Once voice went digital, the shift was connecting people to the internet on the move. Now, the move is … Read more

Intel Focuses on VR at Press Event

Intel held a press event that it said was the most technically complex press event that it had ever staged as it had set up high powered VR systems for all of the press that was able to get into the event. The main speaker was Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel who started by saying … Read more

Tobii Looking at Gaming, Power and Mobiles

We caught up with Tobii in its meeting room where we found the company in a very positive mood as it has been expanding the range of support that it has received. Whereas last year, it had four or five applications (games) with support for its gaze tracking technology, it now has around 50. It … Read more

Panasonic still in CE – If not in US TV

Panasonic held its regular press event and, as it has done at the last several that we have attended, it started with discussions about smart cities. The “Smart cities” topic is a big story for Panasonic and last year said the firm that it would work with the city of Denver and the company has … Read more

Ultra HD Forum Releases Updated HDR Deployment Guidelines

The Ultra HD Forum was formed a couple of years ago to help develop best practices mainly for the distribution community in their assessment and deployment of 4K, UltraHD and HDR/WCG services. At NAB 2016, they issued version 1.1 of their Ultra HD Phase A guidelines. At CES 2017, they issued version 1.2 of the … Read more

First ATSC 3.0 Television Product Shown at CES

LG has debuted at CES what may be the first market-ready ATSC 3.0 television set. The ATSC 3.0-enabled 4K Ultra HD TVs are being rolled out to support this year’s nationwide deployment of the Next Gen TV broadcast standard in South Korea. Starting this spring, in advance of the 2018 Winter Olympics, new 2017 models … Read more

CES Panel Envisions ATSC 3.0 Business Opportunities

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At CES 2017 in Las Vegas this past week, industry experts weighed in on some of the many business models envisioned for the emerging ATSC 3.0 standard. Speaking at a panel entitled, “ATSC 3.0: A New Broadband Network,” executives from the broadcasting and content industries described profitable use cases for the new technology. Sinclair Broadcast … Read more

Matrox Maevex Helps Ice Hockey Centre

Ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens uses Matrox’s Maevex H.264 system to provide streaming of the game around the whole of the Bell Centre, even away from the playing area in the concourse. It is also used away from the public to challenge goals. Maevex feeds 100 digital displays. The decision was made to upgrade as … Read more