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My attention was caught recently by a whitepaper from Juniper Research, titled ‘eSports – Gamers’ New MVP?‘, which goes into detail to examine today’s fast-growing ‘electronic sports’ scene. These are games played competitively on a PC or console, in most cases against other players. While originally they were mostly played for bragging rights, today millions … Read more
With the ATSC standard for next-generation broadcast television nearing completion, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) today invited a delegation of 11 South Korean broadcast industry experts to witness the first end-to-end transmission of UHD High Dynamic Range (HDR) Scalable High Efficiency Video (SHVC) encoded content using the proposed ATSC 3.0 transmission standard. The broadcast … Read more
AT&T is trialling a new audience demographics tracker with Clear Channel in the USA. Using the AT&T Data Patterns – Out of Home Media tool, advertisers can track footfall and stats such as average age, genders and ethnicity. It will also measure response to adverts. The system works by tracking the location of AT&T’s mobile … Read more
We conducted multiple video interviews at I/ITSEC 2015, and have links to all of them. Highlights include Christie’s Accuframe Pro system, JVC’s move to 100% solid-state light sources and Third Dimension’s 3D demonstration. Boeing does a nice job of explaining how it built up a very complex synthetic database for flight simulators using multiple inputs … Read more
Pioneer LED has launched itself in the UK market, with domestically-manufactured LED displays. Pioneer describes itself as offering ‘a complete turnkey solution…for those seeking to implement or upgrade LED installations within retail, sport, luxury home, and corporate environments’. All products are front-accessible, with pixel pitches from 1.9mm to 6mm. A sub-1mm display will be launched … Read more
Pioneer LED is launching to the UK market specialising in custom LED design, specification, installation and content consultancy, offering a complete turnkey solution to the market for those seeking to implement or upgrade LED installations within retail, sport, luxury home, and corporate environments. The LED panels are being manufactured in the UK and will feature … Read more
ISE preparations are under-way, with more companies having announced their plans for the show. ISE 2016 will run from the 9th – 12th February in Amsterdam. NEC (4.R24) will again split its stand into areas dedicated to the various areas of its business. One of these will be laser projectors, where NEC will demo its … Read more
NEC Display Solutions Europe is set to impress the audience at ISE 2016 trade fair, taking place in Amsterdam February 9 – 12 2016, through an engaging and unique applications showroom. Every day we receive an increasing amount of visual information through digital displays, be it for communication, entertainment or professional purposes. On our way … Read more
Corning, LG and the UHD Alliance have announced their plans for CES 2016 (6th – 9th January, Las Vegas). Corning caused a stir with its 2011 promotional video, A Day Made of Glass (http://tinyurl.com/8psw74h). Now, the company says that the vision has become a reality for retail, automotive, home and other uses. Corning will be … Read more
Japan’s Red & White Song Competition (Kohaku Uta Gassen) will be broadcast in 8k again (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 51) this year, by NHK. It will be shown in Yokohama, Chiba City, Kyoto City and NHK’s Museum of Broadcasting in Tokyo.
Almost 100 units of Barco’s new D2K-6E projector have been shipped to customers in China. Billed as ‘the smallest projector in the [digital cinema] industry’, the DP2K-6E is being used to upgrade smaller cinemas to digital technology.
Sinclair Broadcast Group has demonstrated the first end-to-end transmission of UltraHD HDR Scalable High Efficiency Video (SHVC) encoded content, using ATSC 3.0. The signal came from Sinclair’s facility on Black Mountain, near Las Vegas, using a prototype Teamcast modulator. It was sent 15 miles away, over IP, to a prototype receiver, developed by Technicolor and … Read more
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