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NAGRA Adds anyCAST CONNECT to 4K Ultra HD Partnership with KT Skylife

NAGRA, a digital TV division of the Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, announced today that it has extended its content protection partnership with Korean satellite broadcaster KT Skylife to include NAGRA’s anyCAST CONNECT solution. NAGRA anyCAST CONNECT will allow the KT Skylife to secure … Read more

High Dynamic Range – the Other Eight

I’ve written about high dynamic range (HDR) systems several times recently. Most of the focus has been on Dolby Vision and HDR10, primarily because content formatted for these two HDR systems is available in the US. While talking to an industry expert at the Samsung HDR event, he told me there are actually 10 HDR … Read more

Fitness is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for Wearables

Shipments of wearable devices reached 22.5 million in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16) according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Despite a decline in shipments for one of the largest vendors, the overall market for wearable devices grew 26.1% year over year as new use cases are slowly starting to emerge. “Fitness is … Read more

Skyworth Releases One New HDR TV at IFA

Skyworth told us that they had one new HDR TV at IFA, the S9B which is part of the previously released H9 series. It is only for sale in China right now and is offered in 55” and 65” UHD screen sizes. It features an OLED panel with Dolby Vision support and wide color gamut … Read more

Canon Expands Professional 4K/UHD Display Lineup With Announcement Of 24-Inch High-Luminance HDR Model

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, announced today two new professional 4K/UHD displays in response to the needs of content-creators – the DP-V2420 professional 4K reference display, a 24-inch high-luminance model ideal for High Dynamic Range (HDR1) footage and the DP-V1710 professional 4K reference display, an industry-first2 17-inch, 3840 x 2160 display … Read more

SmartKem Wins Flexible Funding

The EU has given UK organic semiconductor company, SmartKem, a €1.8 million grant to transfer its OTFT Truflex platform to mass production of flexible displays in Asia. SmartKem is adding a further €850,000. The company already has agreements with two Asian display makers. The funds will speed up the pre-production and scaling of the technology … Read more

Hydis Joins with Tianma but Sees Revenue Downturn

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Hydis Technologies, Korea-based subsidiary of electronic paper maker E Ink Holdings (EIH), and China-based Tianma Micro-electronics have agreed to cross-license TFT-LCD patents. Hydis licenses fringe field switching (FFS) wide viewing-angle technology to Tianma for royalty revenues, but the use of AMOLED panels for smartphones and hand-held devices has reduced demand for FFS-based panels. EIH says … Read more

EKT Integrates STB to Smart TVs

One of the stories that we missed in the flood at IBC was the development of a Smart TV design by EKT which also claims to supply “Tier 1” network operators. The TVs have, effectively, a set top box integrated into the TV that can support EKT’s proprietary solidTV HbbTV and HTML5-compliant middleware platform, supporting … Read more

MediaTek Selects Allegro DVT AVS2 Compliance Streams

Allegro DVT, the leader in audio/video compliance streams, announces that MediaTek Inc., a market leader in cutting-edge systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices, wireless networking, HDTV, DVD and Blu-ray, has licensed Allegro DVT’s AVS2 compliance streams. AVS2, China’s next generation video codec, is developed by the AVS workgroup with a target to achieve more compression efficiency … Read more

Foxconn Chooses NetRange for Smart TV Ecosystems

Foxconn, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics manufacturers, will equip its TV devices with white label smart TV portal solutions from German technology and software development company NetRange. As part of the collaboration, Foxconn will provide the devices with a turnkey middleware and will be the first OEM to deliver ready-to-go products to the … Read more