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Digital TV Research is conservative about global pay-TV revenues (including subscription fees and pay-per-view) over the coming years. The firm expects revenues to peak in 2018, growing ‘only’ $99 million between 2015 and 2021, to $205.9 billion. Growth was 19.5% between 2010 and 2015. North America will have a significant impact on the world total, … Read more
At the Next@Acer press conference on April 21, Starbreeze Studios showed its prototype StarVR headset. Starbreeze was founded in 1998 and is an independent creator, publisher and distributor of entertainment products, especially games. Company headquarters are in Stockholm and the company is publicly traded on Nasdaq Stockholm. It has additional studios in Paris and Los … Read more
At the Next@Acer press conference on April 21 (See related article in this issue), Virtual Reality (VR) headsets from four different suppliers were on display. These were all dedicated VR headsets, not systems based on smartphones with companion optical systems. Systems on display included the Oculus Rift headset from Oculus, Open Source Virtual Reality’s OSVR … Read more
On the 57th floor of World Trace Center 4, Acer held on April 21 Next@Acer, a standing-room only global press conference and product exhibition. Jason Chen, President and CEO of Acer since Jan 1 2014 when he was appointed to over see the transformation of Acer, hosted the press conference. Previous to Acer, Mr. Chen … Read more
While the Lytro Cinema light field camera got enormous buzz at NAB this year, Fraunhofer IIS showed a much smaller camera, similar post-production tools and a short video last year called Coming Home (photo) that was screened at the Technology Summit on Cinema just prior to NAB. We wanted to see what has happened over … Read more
We had a chance to catch up with Technicolor and Philips in their suite at the Renaissance Hotel at NAB. Just prior to the event, we joined a webinar that gave more details on their two companies combined approach to mastering, converting, encoding and delivering HDR and SDR content to end users in a single … Read more
Although global smartphone shipments rose YoY in Q1’16, it was the smallest-ever recorded rise: just 0.4 million units, or less than 0.2%. IDC says that the low growth (from 334.5 million units to 334.9 million) was due to smartphone saturation in developed markets. Apple and Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone vendors, both suffered falling sales. … Read more
Professional monitor maker TVLogic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Star Works Co., Ltd., unveiled a total of 10 new models at NAB including four aimed at 3/6/12G UltraHD workflows in broadcast, production, post-production, and multi-viewer monitoring segments. The four 10-bit 12G-ready UltraHD models will come in 17”, 24”, 42” and 55” sizes. The 17: … Read more
Tom Schubert has joined Tech Data as its dedicated Android business development manager. He will be tasked with providing additional support for customers taking Android-based smartphones and mobile devices to the business and consumer markets. Schubert has worked in the mobile sector for six and a half years, in both customer-centric and purchasing roles.
European start-up Sphericam has announced that it’s going into full-scale production in the U.S. this summer with the a 360˚ VR camera capable of live streaming in 4K. The camera, called Sphericam 2, is roughly the size of a baseball and will retail for a mere $2,500 but packs in market-leading features such as 360˚ … Read more
At NAB, Nokia Technologies announced new solutions to complement the company’s OZO virtual reality (VR) camera, including live VR broadcasting, 3D stitching, and a VR player software development kit (SDK). The new tools and solutions expand the Nokia Technologies VR ecosystem portfolio, which includes OZO, the first commercially available VR camera to capture full 3D … Read more
Canon was busy at NAB showing how its cameras can capture HDR content that can be used in movie as well as broadcast production. It had a number of cameras set up including an Arri Alexa camera, the Grass Valley LDX 86 with HDR HLG and SDR outputs and some Canon cameras. Some of Canon’s … Read more
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