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The day after reporting on the Apple event that showed the company releasing the next iPhone, the new iPad Pro, a new Apple TV and a new OS for the Apple Watch, one has a kind of Apple hangover. With the unmistakable style of presentation and personal fashion sense among the management, we get the … Read more
NEC Display Solutions Europe has appointed Neil Hartigan as general manager for the UK and Benelux regions. He succeeds Simon Jackson who recently moved to the position of senior sales director of strategic and global sales EMEA.
Phew! The IFA report and most of this week’s main issue are done and I’ve just got on the train to the airport to fly out for the first IBC event, this evening. There are some other events today I would have liked to attend, but I just can’t get to Amsterdam any earlier after … Read more
Global TV set shipments experienced their steepest decline in five years in Q2’15, says IHS, declining 8% YoY to 48 million units. The result follows a year of annual growth in 2014, and was the largest fall since Q2’09, when demand slumped due to the global recession. Most of the decline is attributed to slowing … Read more
After the 3IT panel sessions, there was a socialising event with groups of delegates being allowed to have a look at the TiME (Tomorrow’s immersive Multimedia Experience, we think) 180° immersive environment which is run by the Fraunhofer HHI. The room can take around 20 people in reasonable comfort and has 14 projectors (7 for … Read more
The next panel was on 3D and consisted of Josephine Derobe, a stereographer and director, Jacques Verly from the University of Liege and Ludger Pfanz, a professor from HfG Karlsruhe and the director of the Beyond Festival. Europe has a lot of interest in 3D, but there were not many real projects. Verly said that … Read more
The next panel was on Augmented Reality. Dale Herigstad is CEO of SeeSpace and Clemens Conrad is CEO of Vectorform. Iljaitcsch stayed from the previous panel. Herigstad said that his company, which we reported on at the 3IT last year, has now delivered the 1500 HDMI interface boxes that he offered via KickStarter. Conrad re-positioned … Read more
The next panel was on VR and the first responder was Angus Cameron who is CEO of Vision3, a developer of 3D movies. There is a lot of buzz about VR systems and there will soon be three new VR systems available in the market. A lot of 3D professionals are moving into VR, as … Read more
The next panel consisted of regular contributors to our news, Stephan Heimbecher of Sky Deutschland and Roland Vaiclu of Dolby Labs. Heimbecher started saying that Sky has run two plugfests at the centre over the last year, as even just one year ago there were some issues in interoperability between UltraHD devices and sets. The … Read more
After the introductions, there were a number of panel sessions. The first was on the subject of the 3DInMed medical project which looked at topics including the capture and transmission of 3D content for endoscopy and microscopy. The project has won financial support to back the project and started fully in July. HHI has a … Read more
SES Platform Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), is presenting a live showcase of LIQUID VOD, a new solution for video-on-demand services (VoD) via satellite, at IBC 2015. LIQUID VOD is an innovative way to distribute video content over satellite, delivering a real VoD user experience. … Read more
While browsing Twitter last night during the Apple iPad Pro launch event, I came across a comic by Joel Watson, from 2012, which nailed the tablet’s launch date – and included some excellent commentary on the public’s reaction to Apple launches. We’ve printed the comic – with some edits to make it safe for work! … Read more
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