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Crestron Masters Conference Brings Software to the Forefront

For years, people have been talking about the migration of professional and home audio video, from classic A/V with dedicated video cables, matrix video switchers and RS-232 control to a more IT-centric approach. Some companies that have not managed to make this AV to IT transition have vanished. Crestron is one company that seems to … Read more

ATEME Extends its High Dynamic Range Support by Integrating Technicolor’s Enhanced HDR Distribution Technology

ATEME announced today that it is extending its HDR support by integrating Technicolor’s enhanced HDR distribution technology into its TITAN solutions. The announcement extends the HDR functionality available to content owners, distributors and other service providers that use ATEME’s encoding technology. ATEME’s TITAN is a multi-codec/format video transcoding software, for Live and File applications. TITAN … Read more

Leak Shows ‘PS4.5’ Specs

Sources speaking to Giantbomb, and Sony documents seen by the website, have revealed more (apparent) details about the PlayStation 4.5, or ‘PlayStation 4k’ (Rumour Claims ‘PS4.5’ Will Run Games at UHD). Internally known as the Neo, the console will feature a higher clock speed (2.1GHz, from 1.6GHz), new GPU (AMD Graphics Core Next, 36 compute … Read more

Kyocera Launches Waterproof Hydro REACH Smartphone, Available Now from Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA

Kyocera Communications Inc. today announced that its newest waterproof 4G LTE Android smartphone, the Hydro REACH, is now available from Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA nationwide. Building on the legacy of success of Kyocera’s Hydro Series, the Hydro REACH sports a large 5-inch display and with a textured back cover and rounded edges for … Read more

PILOT Demonstrates First Next-Gen TV Interactive Environment Prototype Home Gateway at NAB Show

A prototype ATSC 3.0 receiver and gateway demonstrating the Interactive Environment will be featured during NAB Show, April 18-21, 2016, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nev., in the PILOT booth (SU16009) at the Futures Park exhibition in the east end of South Hall, Upper Level. The “Next Generation TV” standard, or ATSC 3.0, was … Read more

Schott Glass Takes Innovation Award

Dr. Frank Heinricht, chairman of the board of Schott AG (right), with Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics (middle) and Jan Hofer, German journalist (left)Schott’s ultra-thin glass has won the 2016 German Industry Innovation Award, in the large company category. The glass is being used in smartphones today, as both cover glass and substrates … Read more

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