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CinemaCon 2015 is going on April 20 – 23 at Caesar’s Place and other venues in Las Vegas. CinemaCon, celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, is the official convention of The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO). NATO expected about 5,000 motion picture professionals to show up for CinemaCon 2015. One of the main features … Read more
According to an article by Re/Code, Nokia is planning on getting back into the mobile phone business. After the sale of its device business to Microsoft, many analysts believed that we had seen the last of any new phone from Nokia. This idea was reinforced after Nokia announced plans to acquire Alcatel-Lucent and create a … Read more
Insights in Education This is another installment in my new series that shines some light on the thinking, preferences and tendencies of your education market customers. I know them well. I was one of them. I’ve been an educational technology director for 25 years, with a significant track record in large educational technology purchases for … Read more
I could not cover all the news from NAB 2015, but I can provide some impressions based on the companies I did meet with. You can see some of this coverage in videos posted from the event as well. Overall, I was looking at advancements in high dynamic range (HDR), 3D, virtual reality, LED displays, … Read more
Olive Garden, the Darden Restaurants Italian cuisine chain in the US, has announced that it will be using tablets in all of its restaurants this year. After a successful trial run in 2014, Olive Garden decided to make the tablets a permanent part of its restaurants. The tablet that will be used is the Ziosk, … Read more
During the NAB Show in Las Vegas BBright, an Ultra HD infrastructure and video compression startup, demonstrated its latest cost-effective 4K / UHD technology for Live encoding compatible with Main 10 H.265 profile, up-to 60 fps. The SLED-4K Live encoder reduces the necessary IP streaming bandwidth to bit rates compatible with real-life applications and existing … Read more
V-Nova’s Perseus compression technology (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) took home a 2015 Newbay Media Best of Show award at NAB this month. Perseus is said to lower bitrates by up to three times compared to H.264, HEVC and JPEG2000. Analyst Comment Unfortunately, we were not able to see the company’s demo at NAB. … Read more
Speaking at NAB, Ericsson researcher Lukasz Litwic discussed the Implications of High Dynamic Range on the Broadcast Chain for HD and Ultra-HD Content. The talk described the need and impact of new Electro-Optical and Opto-Electrical Transfer Functions (EOTF, OETF) on the efficiency of video compression used for transmission of UHD content to user displays. Implications … Read more
Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) has carried out a number of live 4k terrestrial broadcasts of three major sports events in 2014, based on earlier terrestrial UHD experimental broadcasts. Transmissions covered the KBL (Korean Basketball League) finals, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. At NAB, KBS researcher Sansung Kim described plans … Read more
At the annual NAB Conference in Las Vegas last week, NHK described its plans for rolling out a UHD over-the-air infrastructure and content services. NHK Executive Research Engineer Masayuki Sugawara gave the talk, originally scheduled to be presented by NHK Deputy Head of Science & Technology Research Laboratories Toru Kuroda. Sugawara described the efforts in … Read more
EA has been quick to jump on the Apple Watch hype train, having released an update to the iOS FIFA ’15 app supporting the device. According to Pocket Gamer, the app will send game notifications to the user’s Watch and enable some in-game functionality, such as conducting player transfers.
A Japanese start-up called Meleap claims that it has developed the world’s first augmented reality sport – and not an eSport, either. ‘Hado’ uses a head-mounted display to display the ‘arena’ and a smartwatch to detect controls – in this case, flinging a fireball at an opponent when a player thrusts his or her hands … Read more
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