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tvONE, a leading designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge video and multimedia processing equipment, has been chosen by Olympus Surgical Technologies Europe to develop a custom video routing system transmitting 2D, 3D and 4K images for its minimal invasive surgery system. Olympus provides a complete workflow solution – from camera to screen – for minimally invasive … Read more
Everything is moving to high resolution – even your foamy beverages. The Ripple Maker, from Israeli start-up, CC, can ‘3D print’ images and text onto the foam on a cup of coffee. As our friend Mark Fihn, of the High Resolution newsletter wondered, “[Will] some enterprising inventor…figure out how to do this in 12-bit colour … Read more
I saw this editorial in Jon Peddie’s Techwatch newsletter. I know how to save the VR market It’s being overhyped, and that will ultimately drive consumers away—I have a plan “Commentators from all corners— financial, technical, gaming, and the general press—have complained or ridiculed the cost of Oculus’s new HMD, and the expensive system needed … Read more
SMPTE has announced that its board of governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large: Chris Fetner of Netflix and Leon Silverman of Disney Digital Studio Services. Bob Edge and Paul Treleaven were reappointed to serve as standards directors along with the newly appointed Dave Schnuelle. Michael DeValue, V. Michael … Read more
The CTO of the Olympic Games’ Olympic Broadcast Services has confirmed that there will be no 4K/UHD transmissions from the Rio event this summer. Sotiris Salamouris told trade magazine TVB Europe that that he and his team have been planning the Rio de Janeiro TV coverage since 2009 and at that time, 4k was very … Read more
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), a leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, today announced that the SMPTE Board of Governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large. Chris Fetner of Netflix and Leon Silverman of Disney Digital Studio … Read more
Recently, we were invited to Sony’s UK headquarters in Surrey to view the company’s newest products – including its new TVs, recently announced at CES (Sony Hopes to Challenge OLED). Although the products were, mostly, not new to us, this was a chance to get closer to them, ask some more technical questions and get … Read more
BrightSign had no new media players, but nonetheless had lots to show and talk about. We caught CEO Jeff Hastings, who had obviously been kept very busy – his voice was extremely croaky by the second day of the show! We began at a demonstration area, where BrightSign was highlighting ways to use social media … Read more
Eight months ago, in June 2015, Samsung tested a truck equipped with displays on the rear, which would show the road ahead of the vehicle through a camera feed (Overtaking Problem Solved by Samsung?). The stated aim was to increase road safety for overtaking. The company is now testing the truck again in Argentina – … Read more
Freesat has announced that it added an additional 36,000 homes to its service in Q4’15. The company’s satellite TV service has added a total of 61,000 homes throughout 2015, bringing its total to 1.93 million. Freetime, Freesat’s connected TV guide solution, has also seen a 13% year-on-year increase in sales for 2015.
AUO will begin to ship bezel-less panels for UltraHD TVs in Q1’16, say sources in the Asian supply chain. Instead of using bonded drivers under the bezel, the company will use gate driver on array (GOA) technology, similar to Sharp’s Freeform Display. AUO hopes that such units will exceed 30% of all UltraHD TV panel … Read more
Netflix has already broken into the UltraHD market. Now, in an interview with Digital Trends, CPO Neil Hunt has said that the company’s next focus is HDR. All of the company’s original content is now being filmed with HDR-capable cameras. He anticipates that 5% of content will be available in HDR within a year, and … Read more
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