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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
The first ingredient in the Physical Layer transmission standard for next-generation TV broadcasts is now an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) “Candidate Standard,” marking an important milestone in the process to develop the ATSC 3.0 standard, the Advanced Television Systems Committee announced today. The ATSC’s Technology Group developing ATSC 3.0 has voted to approve the … Read more
Georges Agnes runs the SES HD Plus initiative in Germany and he talked about the plans for UltraHD and multiscreen. HDPlus has a platform that costs €5 per month to get 20 pay channels and 30 FTA channels. The service has grown from 2 to 20 pay channels, and has gone from 37,000 subscribers after … Read more
The final session of the first day covered service and platform initiatives and the first speaker was Laurent Etienne, the CTT of HTTV, a French middleware company. He has been involved in the standards process for the development of the different versions of HbbTV. (For those readers who don’t know HbbTV – it’s a specification … Read more
John Adam of Samsung was the next speaker and he gave the “set makers’” point of view. He said that consumers are buying UHD sets and that is also driving the growth of sets in 55″ and above. He also said that there have been a lot of UltraHD trials and people really could see … Read more
Yvonne Thomas is from the EBU and she looked at standards for UltraHD. She said that the aim with UltraHD, as Mark Twain said is to “please some and astonish the rest”. The main body that decides on broadcasting standards is the ITU which has two working parties looking at UltraHD. Working Party 6B is … Read more
Continuing the company’s exceptional commitment to extending a product’s lifetime, Lumineq® is offering a limited edition of drop-in replacement units for the previous generation of the colored EL640.480-AA1 display. This enables customers to further lengthen the lifetime of their existing applications and fulfill any service obligations from unforeseen external circumstances. Multi-color VGA display The Lumineq … Read more
It has been an interesting week. I spent a couple of days in Luxembourg at the SES Partner day. There was, of course, lots of talk about UltraHD and HDR and I got my first chance to have a good look at the latest Samsung SUHD TV set showing some great HDR UltraHD content. Meanwhile, … Read more
Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd. (Ikegami), a leader in the design and manufacture of top-quality broadcast cameras and production equipment, reports rapidly growing interest in ultra-high-definition technology at the 2015 NAB Show. Held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 13-16, the event attracted over 100,000 registered attendees including representatives from the world’s largest broadcasting organisations. … Read more
Fitbit has announced plans to raise around $100 million from an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, though it has not indicated how many shares it plans to sell, nor a price range. The company is estimated to hold between a half and two-thirds of the fitness tracking technology industry and … Read more
Sharing a little more information about its upcoming (Oculus Rift Set to Arrive in 2016) Oculus Rift headset, Oculus VR has said that it is developing its own virtual reality games. The fear is that poorly-developed games will scare people away from VR.
Nokia’s N1 tablet was launched in 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 46), but has been confined to China – until now. The tablet has now been rolled out to Taiwan, for NT$7,800 ($255) ex VAT. There is still no word on when – or if – it will be launched in other markets, however.
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