UltraHD Missing From Xbox One S
Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox One S requires an update to be downloaded before it can play bacl UltraHD content. The console was launched worldwide on the 2nd August.
Sony Goes Beyond Premium
Sony has announced a new series of premium LCD TVs known as XBR-Z: these are positioned above the company’s current flagship models in the X series, such as the X930D. The focus for these sets is on reproducing UltraHD and HDR content. Mike Fasulo, president and COO of Sony Electronics in the US, called the … Read more
Canon Adds New Tech to XEED Series
Canon’s newest XEED-brand LCoS projector is a short-throw model for professional users, called the 4K501ST. Designed as an update to the 4K500ST (Canon Claims World’s Lightest DCI Projector), the new projector features HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2. The unit is described as ‘lightweight’ (18kg) and ‘compact’ (470 x 533.5 x 175mm). It is intended for … Read more
Rogers TV Subscribers Down in Q2
Rogers Communications, a Canadian communications and media company has announced its operating results. Rogers recorded a drop in total TV subscribers to 23,000 in Q2’16 from 32,000 in Q2’15.
AT&T Records 25 Million Subscribers in Q2
AT&T recorded a drop of 49,000 total video subscribers in Q2’16. Satelite subscribers rose to 342,000 in the same quarter. U-verse TV subscribers declined 391,000. Total AT&T video subscribers for the quarter were 25.3 million.
CAST introduces Ultra HD-capable video compression cores
Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. recently introduced the newest generation in its eighteen-year-long series of IP cores for video and image compression. The new 2016 Video and Image Compression Cores Family includes encoders and decoders covering a wide range of features and capabilities. Members of the family are each optimized for today’s most in-demand … Read more
Wireless Charging Era Dawns for Mobile
Yes, smartphones are a major part of our lives, and God knows how we got along without them in the past. But like a new relationship, it’s the unknown baggage that can often sabotage a perfect match. Case in point, We never signed up for a lifetime of wires and charger cubes living next to … Read more
Insta360 Nano Offers Perfect Peripheral Vision on the Go
Insta360 Nano is the first HD camera to shoot and live-stream high definition virtual reality and panoramic stills and videos directly from an iPhone. The Apple MFi-approved Insta360 Nano simply clips onto an iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s or 6s Plus. Additionally, for panoramic action shots or videos the Insta360 Nano can be attached to … Read more
Netflix and Amazon to See Revenues More Than Double, Reaching Almost $35 Billion by 2021
New data from Juniper Research has found that revenues from SVOD (subscription video on demand) services, such as Netflix and Amazon, are set to more than double from $14.6 billion this year, to $34.6 billion in 2021. Netflix now sees US subscriber numbers level with leading network providers DirecTV & Comcast (47 million and 47.7 … Read more
Ray Tracing Just Became Faster, Easier and Less Complex
A new technique, developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has increased the speed of rendering some particularly tricky graphics. Rendering specular highlights, or glints (such as reflections from uneven surfaces water, metals and other materials), is very complex. Light is scattered in many directions when it hits these surfaces, producing … Read more
BrightSign Powers Digital Signage Pillar at Westfield
BrightSign, LLC®, the global market leader in digital signage media players, and Project Audio Visual today announced the successful installation of a very unusual cylindrical digital signage column at theWestfield Shopping Centre in White City, London. Steve Hudson, Sales Director of Project Audio Visual, said, “We claim to be able to fulfil any brief, but … Read more
Nanoco and Wah Hong in QD Agreement
Nanoco Group has signed a seven-year supply and licensing agreement with Wah Hong Industrial Corporation to market cadmium-free quantum dots. The agreement will see Nanoco supplying its cadmium-free quantum dot resin, which Wah Hong will process and market it to its existing customers in the display industry.
