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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
As was rumoured last month (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 03), LG has announced that its flagship G6 OLED TV will cost $8,000. The company has started to take pre-orders for the set. Samsung has started a very limited release for its UltraHD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500 (Samsung Uses LED in Modular TV … Read more
Freesat, the subscription-free satellite TV service, today announces a strong final quarter to 2015, with the addition of 36,000 new homes in the three months to December 2015. After adding 61,000 homes over the course of 2015, Freesat is now available in over 1.93 million households and is watched by more than four million viewers … Read more
Swisscom’s TV access lines rose by 166,000, or 14.2%, YoY in 2015 to 1.33 million. Over 60% of subscribers use the cloud-based service Swisscom TV 2.0.
Vodafone has announced that it had 9.4 million TV customers at the end of the year, up from 9.2 million at the end of September. Integrated TV bundles such as Vodafone Red (Germany) and Vodafone One (Spain) have seen ‘encouraging’ adoption.
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