UltraHD Market Will Rise With Consumer Awareness
Technavio has said that it expects the UltraHD TV market to grow at a 45% CAGR between 2015 and 2019. Find the company’s report (paid) at http://tinyurl.com/ksfwud4.
Majority of OTA Cord-Cutters Are From Satellite
A survey released by TiVo has shown that the largest group of new ‘cord cutting’ customers are former satellite subscribers. The survey, from late 2015, polled more than 500 purchasers of TiVo’s Roamio OTA DVR. 32% were former satellite DVR users, who cited cost and dissatisfaction with overall features as their primary reasons for leaving … Read more
Dynamic Focus on 22″ Wide LCD Monitors V22 Issue 20
This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 22″ wide category covering 16:10 models with resolution of 1680 x 1050. There are 12 brands featured in the advertising with Philips, Iiyama and NEC Displays the top three advertised brands across all three countries. The ranking is the same in the UK. In France, Philips … Read more
OLEDs, Wearables, Quantum Dots and Other Hot Display Technologies Key Focus at Display Week’s Annual Investors Conference
The Society for Information Display (SID) is partnering with Cowen and Company and IHS for the 11th Annual Investors Conference at Display Week, which runs from May 31-June 5, 2015, at the San Jose Convention Center. Part of the four-day SID Business Track, this day-long event will be held immediately following the Display Week keynote … Read more
SES Industry Days 2015 Conclusion
We enjoyed this event which was very interesting. Thomas Wrede of SES was a congenial and energetic host. UltraHD and HDR in particular are hot topics and there was some useful information. The SAT>IP initiative is also an interesting one – it would be fascinating to understand why it is not really implemented by an … Read more
DMT Has New Interface and UltraHD STB Upgrade
The final speaker was Hyung Lim from DMT in Korea, although the firm also has offices in the US. DMT has developed a new box, 4SeTV which allows the merging and playback of four different streams of video so that users can, for example, watch four different sports programmes at the same time on a … Read more
IoT Makes Demands on STBs
Hyperpanel is a software company from France and is working on SAT>IP and Laurent Jabiol introduced the company. The firm was founded in 1986 and was the creator of MediaHighway. It was the first company to develop MHEG, HbbTV, Cas-2-DRM and SAT>IP software. It has 35 million DTV licences worldwide. Hyperpanel has a new operating … Read more
MStar Explains its Business
Patrick Molin is from MStar in Taiwan. The company was only formed in 2002 by some engineers from TSMC and started with simple chips, but quickly got into TV SoCs and was one of the survivors that eventually took the market. It was the first company to develop a global DVB chip, which was a … Read more
SelfSat Antenna Can Include SAT>IP LNB
The final speaker in the SAT>IP session was Seung Joon IM from “I DO IT” and he talked about a new flat antenna for SAT>IP. Joon set up the company after leaving LG and it is based in Korea. There are many parabolic antennas in the market, but flat antennas have been widely used in … Read more
Triax LNBs Can Support SAT>IP
Peter Lyhne Uhrenholt is from Triax and he spoke about LNBs that can directly support SAT>IP. Triax is from Denmark and has been around for more than 65 years. Most of its business is done in Europe, although there are sales in Asia and North America. Triax believes there are 142 million DTH households in … Read more
SAT>IP is Developing
The second day started with more technical content on broadcast and then moved into a session on SAT>IP. We have been reporting on the concept (where satellite-supplied content is put straight into a home network – even as early as the LNB). Tom Christophory is from SES and is the “technical guru” behind SAT>IP and … Read more
Satellite Can Push UltraHD
The next speaker was Gregory Beaurin of Quadrille in France and he looked at the issues for delivering multimedia content over satellite as satellite TV companies have to be able to add On Demand and OTT services. In real life, broadband-free regions still exist, but even in areas with broadband, network saturation occurs. How can … Read more
