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Technicolor held a press lunch event to talk about its technology. Unfortunately, the event was attended by more press than expected, so the room was rather more dispersed than might have been hoped, which made it difficult to hear all the discussion. Despite the moderator’s attempts to widen the discussion, much of it centred on … Read more
The Sony press event started with a full volume corporate video. Interestingly for a projector maker, Sony used flat panel displays for its presentation, with the main one a large Bravia set. Adam Fry, VP of Sony Professional, started by talking about Sony’s 70 years of history and its history of innovation. He said there … Read more
Digital UK has today published an updated technical specification for Freeview Play, setting out new features and requirements for products developed during 2017. Freeview Play combines live television with catch-up TV and on-demand services from the BBC, ITV, STV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and UKTV, making it easy for viewers to watch what they want, … Read more
Ferdinand Kaiser is the CEO of SES and his talk was called ‘Meeting the exponential demand for content’. There is a forecast of 3% CAGR in the use of bandwidth for video. 70% of internet is video and 50% of that is Youtube. Enterprise is also a growth market at 3% CAGR. Kaiser said that … Read more
Ericsson held a press event and briefing on the day before IBC. Stella Medlicott, CMO of Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services was the first speaker and she started by explaining that Ericsson has over 19 million subscribers using Ericsson platforms. It delivers 500 channels and has won six technical emmys and is operating in more … Read more
The Society for Information Display (SID) has announced a new award to honor young researchers under the age of 40 who have made innovation of design and enhancement of the performance of active matrix addressed information displays. The deadline for the nomination of 2017 awards is 15th October 2016. The award is named after Dr. … Read more
Dell today announced a new, redesigned mobile thin client portfolio for those who need to be on the move, but also require critical intellectual property (IP) and data to be protected – even against zero-day, advanced persistent threats. Ideal for a range of industries including finance, healthcare, government, manufacturing, and energy and exploration industries, the … Read more
Dell has announced two new mobile thin client devices supporting “all VDI protocols”, and can connect to Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware Horizon. The Dell Latitude E7270 and Latitude 3460 have 12.5″ (FullHD) and 14″ (1366 x 768) displays and both use Intel processors. The smaller unit is more powerful and is claimed by … Read more
The Holst Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has worked with a US ultra-thin ceramics supplier, ENrG Inc., to create a ceramic-based large area flexible OLED. The substrate is a 20-40 µm thick Thin E-Strate ceramic surface that is claimed to have a life of more than 10 years without the formation of blackspots, but is … Read more
Kateeva believes that its Yieldjet Flex system has enabled a rapid transition from glass encapsulation to TFE in new OLED production lines. The company claims that its precision deposition solution for the TFE organic layer deposition process is fast, offers good planarization, few particle defects, high material utilization, good scalability, and easy maintenance. As a … Read more
AMD is working with eMagin to develop a ‘4K’ VR display according to Roy Taylor of AMD, who is effusive about the quality in the video below. Check out, also, this video, where Taylor talks about the importance of resolution in VR and the need to avoid visible pixels. He also confirms that AMD and … Read more
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in the US, a non-profit environmental lobby group that claims more than two million members, has published a report that claims that Samsung, LG and Vizio are exploiting loopholes in the regulations for energy consumption. It was a follow up on work done on UltraHD TV sets that seemed … Read more
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