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Peter Nayler is from STMicroelectronics There will be more than 3 billion connected people by the end of this year around the world. In rural areas other, wired technolgies, are not able to deliver connectivity but satellite can get everywhere. Satellite broadband is relatively high cost per bit, has limited bandwidth and relatively high latency. … Read more
Daniel Biedermann is SVP of corporate development at SES and he started by saying that there are a lot of national satellite initiatives for making satellites, partly attracted by Chinese money and interest, so growth has been negative for satellite makers. Satellite operators have seen some growth (around 5.5% per year) and is expected to … Read more
A 2012 ruling, which added New York’s Times Square to the USA’s Highway Beautification Act, is threatening the iconic billboards. The 1965 Act limits the size of signs along roadways to less than 1,200ft² (around 110m²). Failure to comply could see about $90 million in federal highway funding withheld from the city. However, an NYC … Read more
Nvidia says it will wind down its Icera modem operations in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 and that the company is open to a sale of the technology or operations. Nvidia acquired Icera in 2011 as part of a plan to engage in the smartphone revolution but since then, Nvidia has refocused its strategy … Read more
The first speaker was Karim Michel Sabbagh of SES, the relatively new President and CEO of SES who said that the aim of satellite is to be on the sea, on the land and in space. He started by talking about the Quantum of the Seas – an ocean liner which has more connectivity than … Read more
SES, the satellite operator, held one of its regular industry days in Luxembourg and we attended, as our own Bob Raikes was among the speakers. SES has been a supporter of HD and better quality TV for a long time and Thomas Wrede was a speaker at the Meko DisplayForum HDTV event back in 2005, … Read more
AU Optronics (AUO) had a disappointing start to the second quarter, reporting declines in both sales and shipments in April. Revenue for the month was down 12.2% sequentially and 7.3% year on year at NT$30.5 billion ($990.6 million), bringing sales so far this year to NT$125.8 billion ($4.1 billion), 0.7% lower than the same period … Read more
Data Modul is preparing for the NorShipping show in Oslo (2nd – 5th June, stand C01-01a), where it will show a range of marine monitors and panel PCs from 7″ – 26″. The company uses components developed in-house, including ARM and x86 carrier board designs. Data Modul guarantees long-term availability. A 42″ large-format display will … Read more
The issue of cadmium in quantum dots has been discussed at a meeting of the European Parliament. The meeting was ongoing at the time of writing, so we cannot talk about the result – yet. Cadmium is a toxic substance in QDs, and its use is under significant limitations in European electronic goods, under the … Read more
SES, Samsung and the BBC’s R&D team have demonstrated the world’s first DVB broadcast of UltraHD HDR content to a TV. The transmission was sent from an SES satellite, using DVB UltraHD Phase 1 specifications and the BBC’s HDR technology, to a Samsung SUHD (quantum dot) TV. The BBC’s Hybrid Gamma technology enables SDR content … Read more
SES (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd demonstrated the first DVB transmission of High Dynamic Range UHD TV at the annual SES Industry Days in Luxembourg 6th and 7th May 2015. The content will be transmitted via an SES satellite directly to a Samsung SUHDTV using the Hybrid … Read more
Swiss company Escatec has developed a new method of testing LCD displays with a camera, while compensating for moiré. Moiré is the set of patterns visible on an LCD screen when viewed through a camera lens. They are caused by interference between the images in the LCD arrays and the image sensor in the camera. … Read more
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