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Sky Takes V-Nova in Italy

Sky will use V-Nova’s Perseus codec on its IPTV platform in Italy, resulting in a halving of the average bitrate from 8Mbps to 4Mbps. One of the most important points about the news is that the codec is being deployed as a software update. This follows the integration of the Perseus SDK with Harmonic’s ViBE … Read more

Cambrios Gets a Second Chance

John LeMoncheck will resume his position as president and CEO of CambriosCambrios has restarted its silver nanowire business, following the liquidation of the company’s assets in February. Steve Victor, a senior MD at Development Specialists (which acted as the Assignee in Cambrios’ liquidation), said that Cambrios was another example of a high-tech venture that could … Read more

Display Summit to Feature Leaders from Hot Laser Projection Industry

The 9th – 10th May in Yixing, China, is where world leaders in solid state projection technology will gather for a symposium on this red hot market segment. Some in the industry are predicting RGB laser projectors will be the ONLY cinema projector product sold by 2022. Meanwhile RGB laser, laser phosphor and LED projectors … Read more

Ateme Works With Technicolor on HDR

Ateme is integrating Technicolor’s HDR distribution technology into its Titan product. Titan is a multi-codec and -format video transcoding software. The use of Technicolor’s technology will extend HDR functionality available to content owners, distributors and other service providers using Titan.

VR Revenues to Rise 440%

JP Morgan has forecast that the global VR market will be worth as much as $13.5 billion by 2020, compared to just over $2.5 billion this year. Gaming and entertainment applications will see the highest levels of adoption. The firm also forecast a 43% CAGR for shipments of VR headsets: from an estimated 21.6 million … Read more

‘E-Skin’ AMOLED is Thinner Than Cling Film

An OLED display prototype, developed at the University of Tokyo, is more flexible than any type seen before – and less than quarter of the thickness of cling film (Saran wrap, to our American readers). Measuring just 3µm in thickness, the device is described as ‘electronic skin’, or e-skin. It can be worn directly on … Read more

Digital TV Rises Despite World Economy

Worldwide digital TV (DTV) homes will rise by 185% between 2010 and 2021, or almost 1.1 billion, according to Digital TV Research. In 2016 alone, the total will climb by 120 million, and by 497 million between 2015 and 2021. At the end of the forecast period, worldwide DTV penetration will reach 98.3%, from 40.4% … Read more