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Panasonic Presents the DX802 Series, a UHD LED 4K Pro VIERA TV, Where Technology Meets Art

Panasonic has announced the new 4K Pro VIERA DX802, a high-end model in the new 2016 range of 4K UHD LED TVs. The DX802 draws on input from Europe’s top furniture companies, architects, and designers and incorporates various artistic touches to complement the interiors of any home. At the same time, the DX802 delivers impressive … Read more

AIMS Members Participate in World’s First Full IP Remote Live Broadcast Production

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) is supporting the work of the LiveIP Project, in advancing the transition to open protocols for media over IP in television broadcasting. LiveIP is a multi-vendor system integration to showcase IP-based live TV broadcast production, and a collaborative project between the EBU (European Broadcast Union) and Flemish Belgian … Read more

UK Satellite Could Support 30 UHD Channels

UK regulator Ofcom is examining future demand for satellite bandwidth in a new consultation document, which is open for comments until the 10th May. One of the body’s key findings is that it believes that there will be enough satellite spectrum to deliver “30 UltraHD channels and continued growth in the number of HD channels”. … Read more

UDC Signs OLED Agreement with Osram

Universal Display Corp. (UDC) and Osram have signed a collaboration and evaluation agreement, which will see Osram begin sampling UDC’s phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) materials for use in lighting. The news comes just one month after Osram CEO Olaf Berlien said that OLED is too expensive to become more than a niche lighting technology. At a … Read more

Blippar Claims Project ‘Bigger Than the Internet’

Augmented reality app maker Blippar has raised $54 million in Series D funding, to help it build a ‘visual browser’ to help in augmented reality (AR) applications. CEO and co-founder Ambarish Mitra told Business Insider last year that the project “is bigger than the internet itself”. The company is attempting to build a visual catalogue … Read more

JPR Hosts Breakfast Briefing at GDC

Portrait Displays has announced that it will sponsor the Jon Peddie Research (JPR) press briefing breakfast at the Game Developer’s Conference. The breakfast will take place at 8:15 AM on the 16th March, at the SF Green Space conference centre. JPR is also expected give an update and overview of the PC gaming hardware market, … Read more

OLED Emits RGB From Same Materials

A research group at the Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) (Kyushu University, Japan) has developed an OLED technology that can emit red, green and blue light using the same organic material. Today’s OLEDs require three different kinds of organic molecules to achieve the same effect. The energy emitted by OLED molecules shifting … Read more