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Digital Multimedia Technology Co., Ltd. (DMT), a leading manufacturer of Pay-TV Set-Top Boxes (STB), and iWedia, a leading provider of software solutions for TV devices to service operators and Consumer Electronics manufacturers, today announced the availability of a common offering for UHD IPTV/OTT hybrid STB running Android TV. The offer is made of iWedia’s Teatro-3.5 … Read more
Apple reported Q2’16 net profit of $10.5 billion, down 23% YoY from $13.6 billion. Turnover was $50.6 billion, down 13% YoY from $58 billion. The company experienced the first ever decline in iPhone sales by volume (down 16%), reflected in the lower financials. A bright spot was seen in the services business, where revenues rose … Read more
IHS has said that LCD panel makers are at risk of incurring ‘deep losses’ this year, as Chinese makers ‘aggravate already severe oversupply’. The comments were made at a display conference in Asia. The global supply of LCD panels will rise 6% YoY in 2016, doubling the 3% growth in demand. This will mostly be … Read more
iWedia and Digital Multimedia Technology have collaborated to produce an UltraHD IPTV/OTTT hybrid set-top box, running Android TV. It uses iWedia’s Teatro-3.5 STB software for Android TV, running on DMT’s hardware. The box itself uses a Broadcom SoC and features 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage; it supports HDMI 2.0, USBB (x2), RJ45, RCA, … Read more
PMA has published its data for large (32″+) displays sold in the USA, for Q1’16. Sales favoured large sizes and premium features, such as UltraHD resolution. 60″+, UltraHD and interactive displays all sold well in the quarter – combining to boost revenues by 22% YoY. Volume also rose in double digits, although not at the … Read more
Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola has hailed LG OLED TV as the next frontier in cinematic home entertainment. Speaking about watching Apocalypse Now on the TV, Ford Coppola said, “[I]t was so lifelike that I felt like I was back in the director’s chair, nearly 40 years ago.”
SiliconCore had a 4K LED video wall on display at NAB made from cabinets with an LED pitch of 0.95mm. This was placed next to a display of the same size (165”) composed of 1.9mm pitch LEDs that created a 1920×1080 resolution wall. The idea was to allow people to see the difference in pixel … Read more
I have to confess: something scared me. It scared me a lot. The source of my fear could be found in a recent Display Daily entitled “The Relationship Between 3D Cinema and Headaches.” Certainly, Art Berman did an excellent job of objectively reporting the results of the study. But what scared me were the implications … Read more
I recently attended the Future of Cinema Conference and NAB to learn more about UHD, HDR, WCG, VR and more. And did I get an eye and ear full…. One of the highlights was the Lytro Cinema camera. This is a monster at nearly 7 feet long (>2m) that can capture 755 megapixels at 120 … Read more
I recently attended the Future of Cinema Conference and NAB to learn more about UHD, HDR, WCG, VR and more. And did I get an eye and ear full…. One of the highlights was the Lytro Cinema camera. This is a monster at nearly 7 feet long (>2m) that can capture 755 megapixels at 120 … Read more
At the recent SXSWedu conference, over 6,000 international attendees, exhibitors, thought leaders, and other innovators in the education space gathered in Austin to get a glimpse of the future of innovation in schooling. In last month’s article, VR @ SXSWedu: The Good News about VR in Education, I described how “virtual reality made its presence … Read more
The Ultra HD Forum used NAB 2016 to release the first phase of industry guidelines on end-to-end workflows for creating and delivering live and pre-recorded UHD content. This first release of the guidelines lets the Forum’s members target deployments in 2016. Both technical and commercial challenges are addressed such as production, distribution and consumer decoding … Read more
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