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Hans Hoffman of the European Broadcasters’ Union was speaking about the Interoperable Master Format, which had been touched upon by Netflix on the previous day (Netflix Deplores ‘Versionitis’). VoD services are rising quickly in Europe; content owners can increasingly reach niche audiences and exploit niche content. Users are demanding content on all platforms. The rising … Read more
Brian Hawkins, also from RealD, is the inventor of the TrueImage software. First used during post-production of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’, this software is designed to eliminate artefacts. Filmmakers can use high frame rate (HFR) to more accurately replicate the motion perception of the human visual system, said Hawkins. It also leads to … Read more
Day 2 was tight on time for all of the speakers – Welsh announced at the start of the day that, if they overran, he would sound a horn and they’d have to leave the stage no matter what they were doing. “It’s a blood sport, you’ll love it,” he told the audience. Tony Davis … Read more
The final session of the first day dealt with ‘Emerging Media Technology’ – virtual and augmented reality – in the cinema industry. Simon Gauntlett, CTO of the Digital Television Group, opened the discussion. Gauntlett cited Pokémon Go as an AR driver, and said that horror and pornography industries love VR. “But is it limited to … Read more
Mike Whipple and Sean Durkin are from Netflix and discussed the process of sourcing content, and producing originals, for the service. Because much of Netflix’s content comes from external sources like broadcasters, the company has to deal with a huge number of different formats, most of them closed and proprietary. Some are legacy formats, which … Read more
Andreas Haldi has joined Cynora as the company’s new CMO, as it gets ready to commercialise its blue TADF-based OLED emitting materials. Haldi has worked in the OLED materials field for almst 15 years. He has previously worked at Novaled, where for five years he was based in Seoul.
As supply becomes more constrained and panel prices rise, TV brands are seeking to aggressively increase panel purchases as we enter Q3. IHS expects the panel shortage to continue to affect the industry in Q3: a critical time, as TV makers seek to stock up for the end-of-year sales. The industry has become concerned about … Read more
A cylindrical digital signage column has been installed at Westfield White City in London, using Brightsign’s media players. A curved LED display from Dynascan, which was an unusual 820 x 580 resolution, was installed by Project Audio Visual. The integrator chose to use a Brightsign player, supporting configurable resolutions. Brightsign and Project Audio Visual recently … Read more
Thomas Chang has joined large screen pcap touch maker Displax as an executive vice president, to support the company’s expansion in North America. Chang has previously worked with Cima Nanotech as VP of sales, and before that with 3M.
Insight Media has published a new white paper on sub-pixel rendering. The document both discusses the technology itself, various methods of SPR and provides details on products using these techniques. These include smartphones, tablets, notebooks and TVs from companies such as Samsung, LG, Hisense and Lenovo. The whitepaper can be downloaded for free at http://tinyurl.com/hl8pzo2.
Barco has celebrated an rise in its results for the first half of 2016. Incoming orders rose 2% YoY (to €532.9 million) and sales were up 4.5% (to €529.2 million). Gross profit margin was 35.9%, up 2.6 percentage points. EBITDA was €49.5 million, up €8.9 million compared to the first half of 2015. Finally, net … Read more
Asahi Glass has revised both its first half and full year 2016 consolidated financial forecasts, based on ‘recent performance trends’. The previous forecast for the first half 2016 was ¥680 billion ($6.4 billion), with operating profit of ¥30 billion ($281.4 million). The revised forecast is revenue of ¥625 billion ($5.9 billion) and profits of ¥39 … Read more
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