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Pegatron Capacity Utilisation Falls

Pegatron says that its notebook shipments were up between 30% and 40% MoM in March, to 650,000 – 700,000. Q1 shipments were not so bright, falling 20% QoQ and 20% – 30% YoY, to 2 million – 2.1 million units. Overall capacity utilisation fell in Q1 from Q4’14, and is expected to drop further in … Read more

BBC Aims at UltraHD in 2016

BBC CTO Matthew Postage has told the Financial Times that the company is likely to start broadcasting UltraHD programmes – and whole channels – in a standardised way next year. The challenge, he said, lies in taking advantage of rapidly-changing technologies and features, such as mobile content viewing, VoD and social media platform access through … Read more

Top TV Providers Add 5.1 Million Subs in Q4

Informitv’s Multiscreen Index, of 100 leading pay-TV providers worldwide, shows that these services grew by more than 5.1 million subscribers in Q4’14 (up 1.42%). The top 10 services added more than 5.3 million throughout the year and had a combined total of almost 130 million customers. Satellite providers grew the most in Q4 (up 2.7 … Read more

V-Nova Expands Partnerships

Encompass Digital Media has entered a partnership with V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). There are three solutions the partnership aims to deliver: 1) contribution quality video via the internet at a lower cost than fibre; 2) high quality-streaming media OTT, using less bandwidth than is required today; and 3) UltraHD and 8k TV … Read more

Screen Technology Gets More Attention

RealD used the Technology Summit on Cinema to provide an update on development of its Ultrascreen technology, which also included the first public demo of its new screen technology showing 4k content from an RGB laser projector. The company was careful to note that this is still an “alpha” product, which means manufacturing methods must … Read more

Rumour: Sharp to Make 5.5″ 4K/UHD Mobile Display Panel in 2016

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News of an expected high resolution display from Sharp broke today and was picked up by many techblogs and news outlets. According to the various articles, the new panel is based on IGZO technology and should be mass produced by 2016. The 5.5″ panel has a resolution of 3840 x 2160 and is therefore a … Read more

Disney Research Adds Attributes to Each Pixel

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Disney Research used TSC to describe the filming and processing techniques developed in the making of a short film called “The Dream of Gabriel”. The organization is working on a number of advanced film-making technologies and wanted to try them out on a real production. The results were impressive. The film was produced on a … Read more

Barco Describes Continuing Evolution of Escape Theatrical Format

Barco’s Escape solution was debuted at last year’s CinemaCon. It features a traditional cinema main screen flanked by two side screens angled at about 110 degrees in the current installations. At TSC, attendees heard more about the development of the platform specifications as well as challenges in content creation. Dave McKimmie, who was Post Supervisor … Read more

Vixs Extends its Professional XCodePro Decoder Line Up with HDR and UHD 12-Bit Color

ViXS Systems Inc. (TSX: VXS), a pioneer and leader in media processing solutions, has announced that it has extended its family of XCodePro products for professional and infrastructure markets with the launch of its XCodePro 370 decoder. As HEVC and UltraHD 4K make further strides in adoption in the broadcast market, the XCodePro 370 integrates … Read more

G4 Leaks in Massive LG Reveal

There was a massive leak of news of the LG G4 smartphone over the weekend of 11th and 12th April, when a microsite went live two weeks early. The site, since taken down, revealed many specifications and features of the upcoming flagship. The G4 will use a 5.5″ ‘Quantum’ (dot?) display with an IPS panel … Read more