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Battery life is consistently one of the most important aspects taken into consideration when a consumer purchases a new smartphone; it is also one of the greatest causes of smartphone owner dissatisfaction. In a technical evaluation from the Mobile Device UX group at Strategy Analytics (www.strategyanalytics.com) where the battery performance of flagship smartphones from Apple, … Read more
AT&T will begin selling the Microsoft Surface 3 with Windows 8.1 Pro to business customers in the coming weeks. It will be connected to the nation’s most reliable 4G LTE network with the nation’s strongest 4G LTE signal. It’s powerful enough to replace your laptop. It has all the benefits of the Surface 3 plus … Read more
Dolby was, of course, demonstrating lots of Dolby Vision content. There are now two movies (Tomorrowland and Inside Out) that have been released and shown in Dolby Vision, although there are only a few cinemas today that can show the content. There’s a new one at Hilversum, about 30 km from Amsterdam, in addition to … Read more
Various Fraunhofer groups had a shared booth in Hall 8. We talked to the team behind the Lici lightweight codec. This (like Intopix and Displaystream) codec has very low latency (around two lines), doesn’t use external memory and offers 4:1 up to around 6:1 compression. The codec has been very specifically developed to be implimented … Read more
We met with Eutelsat, the third largest global satellite operator behind Intelsat and SES. The main topic was, of course, UltraHD. The firm believes that there is a “certain maturity” in standardisation and pointed to the Digital Europe logo programme and the EBU UltraHD Phase 1 and the coming Phase 2. There is less of … Read more
HD+, the German HDTV platform, has made its HD+ Replay catch-up portal available on Hisense’s TV sets. Before this, HD+ Replay was only available on HD+’s own satellite receivers, and as an app on LG smart TVs.
We met up with Matthew Goldman, the Senior VP Technology at Ericsson and had a good chat about HDR and the issues. We also recorded an interview with him, look here for updates when that is processed. Ericsson is clear that 1080P 50 video with HDR and WCG is a better experience for most consumers … Read more
This is Lenovo’s integrated colorimeterWe hadn’t spotted Lenovo at IBC before, but were happy to catch up to look at its workstation. There was no real monitor news, although the company said that the ThinkVision Pro 2840M (the firm’s original 28″ monitor) is now down to $600 in the US. The real attraction at the … Read more
We haven’t previously reported on Irdeto, but something their PR company told us must have been persuasive and we met with Richard Scott, SVP Sales & Marketing from the company this time. The firm has 45 years experience in conditional access (CA) technologies and has also been developing software CAMs (that might have been the … Read more
Sigma Designs was in a meeting room above Hall 1 and we got the latest update from them. The first news was about a new variation on G.Hn which Sigma calls “G.Hn Prime” which boost performance above that of the base G.Hn level. It uses special “acceleration” technology at twice the rate, using the TCP … Read more
The UltraHD Alliance had a meeting room at IBC to introduce itself to the European business. There was a feeling that there was a feeling of the “Wild Wild West”. A group of companies came together to develop an Alliance that would try to ensure that some of the problems that afflicted 3D so the … Read more
In a seminar at the Canon EXPO, Embraer’s Paulo Pires described the mixed reality market and its use in aircraft design and simulation. They have been using Canon mixed reality systems and are seeing benefits, as will be described. In his presentation, Pires first gave a little history of Enbraer. It is a Brazilian company … Read more
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