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Germany’s Media Broadcast and Eurofins are working together to develop a receiver specification and test suite, in preparation for the launch of the DVB-T2 platform. A soft launch is expected in June 2016. In related news, public broadcaster ARD has issues a preliminary timetable for its T2 switch. The transsition will begin in large urban … Read more
When Sony introduced the Xperia Z5 Premium smartphone (Sony Enhances Mobile Display – Will it be Enough?), we wondered how the company would achieve the ‘up to two-day’ battery life claim with an UltraHD display. After being reviewed, it appears that the phone is not always displaying UltraHD graphics. Only photos and videos will b … Read more
Amazon has been active in the TV STB/dongle space for more than a year now, and is stepping up its game to challenge the new Apple TV. The company’s newest Fire TV STB not only includes gaming features (like Apple TV), but supports UltraHD content, too. The Fire TV Stick has also received new features, … Read more
A team of researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (Playa Vista, CA) have developed a system that captures videos in a unique way and then presents full sized images of people on a so-called ‘automultiscopic’ display. The term automultiscopic is used to define a display that allows multiple users to view 3D content … Read more
Kopin has announced a new smartglass device under the Solo brand name. The device is aimed at the sports market and is designed especially for bicyclists. Solo is designed by Kopin to compete with the likes of the Jet by Recon Instruments. It seems that the Solo is aiming more at the competitive athlete rather … Read more
Dolby gave a talk as one of the SES seminars at the event. Arnd Paulsen of Dolby started by talking about human vision and its capabilities. The aim is to deliver content that matches that capability. However, moving the content across the networks and delivery systems, the contrast and gamut becomes very limited – which … Read more
Unfortunately the joys of torrential rain and Monday morning Amsterdam traffic meant that we missed the very beginning of the Pixar/ILM keynote. The discussion when we sneaked in was about the use of different levels of brightness available once you move to Dolby Vision as well as the wide colour gamut. Pixar decided early on … Read more
Helmut Stein opened the annual DVB IBC press event. Phil Laven, the DVB Chairman, was the first speaker. Laven started by talking about HEVC – he said that without it, UltraHD would not be possible, but HD services will also appear using HEVC with DVB-T2 as DVB standards are compatible. HEVC is really important for … Read more
Whenever I hear this question, my curmudgeonly inclination is to answer, “Who cares?” Perhaps a better question is “What revolutionary new product would allow Apple to continue earning profit margins far larger than the industry average?” In fact, it’s very hard to imagine Apple coming up with such a product. iWatch, iBust. The financial analyst … Read more
We met with Turkey-based Wi-fi specialist AirTies, in particular CEO Bülent Çelebi, who had a very nice bottle of chilled white wine on his table just as the exhibition was winding down on Sunday evening. He teased us by saying that he just had “the same old stuff” – clearly he knows the shorthand (SOS) … Read more
HiSilicon is a company that we have not seen at IBC before. The company has been making a lot more noise recently and we visited after spotting that it had become a Dolby Vision partner for its STB SoCs. The firm is owned by Huawei and has developed from a focus on video surveillance chips. … Read more
We caught up with Ferdinand Maier of Salzburg-based Ruwido, which makes high quality remote controls and software for the STB user interfaces to go with them. First we looked at one of the regular “design concepts” that the firm creates from time to time to illustrate how designs could develop. The concept device has a … Read more
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