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Canadian broadcaster Telus has launched the first UltraHD TV service in Western Canada. ‘4K on Optik TV’ can be accessed by residents of British Columbia and Alberta and includes a variety of content, including extreme sports and VoD.
State of the art video technology donated by Burnley firm eyevis UK has helped Sean Dyche and his Clarets team during their promotion-winning season, as well as helping to produce stars of the future. The company, based in Halifax Road, Briercliffe, provides high quality video display and audio visual solutions to a range of clients … Read more
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. and Jaunt Inc., the industry leader in cinematic virtual reality (VR), today announced the launch of the first dedicated VR content portal featuring titles mixed in Dolby Atmos® sound to enhance viewers’ sense of realism within the Jaunt® VR app. A custom, branded environment, the Dolby Atmos portal will allow viewers to … Read more
The world’s first All-in-One VR Headset, Deepoon’s Standalone VR Headset M2, started shipping from June 28, 2016. From April 1, 2016, when pre-sale started, to the end of June 2016, Deepoon received over 20,000 orders for the M2, a milestone never before seen in the history of China’s virtual reality headset industry. The Deepoon M2 … Read more
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
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