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2015 hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster film release year but SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) 2015 Symposium attendees are eternally optimistic that tomorrow’s releases will be richer, better and there will be more. While VR (virtual reality) has become a steady fare for the video game industry, manufacturers and academics opened the … Read more
Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, will work together with Microsoft, the leading platform and productivity company, to jointly develop next generation automotive technologies. The two companies today revealed how Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first fully untethered holographic computer, might be used in future to redefine how customers first encounter and explore a car, as … Read more
Technicolor has completed its acquisition of Cisco’s customer premises equipment business (this includes the set-top box division), in a cash and stock agreement worth $600 million (Technicolor Acquires Cisco’s CPE Business). The companies have also signed a strategic agreement, enabling both to develop and deliver ‘next-generation’ video and broadband technologies. Technicolor will immediately begin to … Read more
Large-area display shipments will fall 5% YoY in 2015, says IHS – but the news is not all bad. While unit shipments will decline to 682 million units, large-area TFT-LCD shipment area will grow 5%, helping to offset the fall. Total unit shipments are being driven down by a combination of factors. As well as … Read more
Taiwan-based ITRI has reported the development of a new OLED device architecture that significantly increases the lifetime of RGB OLED displays. The new structure, called a Plasmon-Coupled Organic Light Emitting Diode (PCOLED), boosts the lifetime by 27 times, compared to the conventional blue fluorescent/red & green phosphorescent structure. The figure below shows the PCOLED architecture … Read more
V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of video compression solutions, announced today that its innovative PERSEUS technology was deployed by Mediapro’s Overon for visually lossless contribution of the November 21 “El Clásico” match between Real Madrid and Barcelona played at the Santiago Bernabau stadium in Madrid, Spain. The PERSEUS-powered contribution link was a critical part of … Read more
Mediapro’s Overon used V-Nova’s Perseus compression codec for an UltraHD broadcast of a football match (‘El Clásico’) between Real Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain, on the 21st November. Live footage was encoded at the stadium by V-Nova’s P.Link solution, contributing ‘visually lossless’ content with latency of 240ms, over a 1Gbps fibre connection to the Movistar … Read more
Optoma has just launched a new 1080p multimedia streaming dongle, the HDCast Pro. This device plugs into a projector or TV’s HDMI port to enable wireless streaming of movies, videos, photos, music, documents or websites straight from a smartphone, tablet or laptop. It will also stream digital content stored on a home network. But it … Read more
NanoTech Entertainment announced today that it has released significant updates to its award winning UltraFlix network. The updates include availability today for all 4K North American Samsung, Vizio, and 2015 Sony Ultra HD Smart TV’s models, offering customers access to the free UltraFlix 4K Streaming Network App. Global UHD TV shipments will increase from 25M … Read more
Total smartphone panel shipments rose 4% MoM in September, with particular growth noted in the high-end, says IHS. Shipments reached 160 million units and, while a-Si units continued to lead, LTPS TFT-LCD demand is growing. Shipments of LTPS smartphones displays rose 30% MoM to reach 51.6 million units – driven by strong demand from Apple … Read more
The popular T-Rex Café at Disney Springs, formerly Downtown Disney Marketplace, at Lake Buena Vista, Florida is a monster-sized, Palaeozoic-themed restaurant that bills itself as a ‘Prehistoric Family Adventure’. In addition to serving Caveman Punch and Raptor Rita cocktails, the menu includes such Paleo-themed delicacies as Mastadon Stuffed Chicken and Tar Pit Fried Shrimp for … Read more
AV Stumpfl has helped Disney World, Florida, to upgrade their projection show in the T-Rex Café at Disney Springs. A large section of the dining area is located underneath a night-time scene; several times an hour, a meteor shower streaks overheard, and later a massive asteroid smashes into the earth. Five UltraHD projectors, which required … Read more
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