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Hannstar Reports Strong Monthly Sales

Hannstar Display saw sales in March increase 38.9% from February to NT$1.8 billion ($57.7 million), though this represented a year on year decrease of 5.8%. Revenue in the first three months of the year was down 6% from the same period of last year at NT$5.3 billion ($170.1 million). Hannstar’s March small and medium panel … Read more

Faroudja Improves Quality Algorithms

Bandwidth restoration – before. Click for a larger image. Faroudja Enterprises, founded by industry veteran Yves Faroudja, demonstrated image quality improvement technologies to ‘protect the visual beauty of content from SD to UltraHD for any viewing screen’. The three enhancement technologies introduced at NAB are intended to provide high-quality images, even when bandwidth is at … Read more

Fujinon to Launch Portable Zoom with 4K Optical Performance for Broadcast Cameras at NAB 2015

At this April’s NAB convention in Las Vegas, the Optical Devices Division of FUJIFILM North America will introduce its 4K Ultra HD Series of lenses for broadcast applications. Designed for a 2/3-inch sensor, the new UA80X9, the first field lens in the series, has an 80x zoom and optical image stabilization, making it ideal for … Read more

Streambox Pushes UltraHD at 60fps

Streambox introduced a new encoder, which it said will support UltraHD at 60fps in real-time. The Streambox Rackmount 4k Encoder works with Streambox Cloud to transport live video over the internet, worldwide. It uses point-to-point or point-to-multipoint playout. All video streamed is archived for file-based playout on a Rackmount Decoder or Streambox Media Player, or … Read more

UHD Alliance Calls For Contributor Members To Define The Next-Generation Entertainment Experience

Founding members of the UHD Alliance, representing leading companies in entertainment, technology, consumer electronics and distribution, have issued a call for contributors to join their mission to advance a new and differentiated entertainment experience for Ultra HD including high dynamic range, wide color gamut, high frame rate and advanced audio. The goal of the Alliance … Read more

Hollywood Director Gives Barco Seal of Approval

Film director Michael Bay has chosen a Barco projector for his personal home theatre in his new home in California. “When I present my large-scale films to audiences for screening, I bring in Barco equipment”, said Bay. “It is simply the best”. The director chose a DP4K-23B UltraHD projector, installing it in a 50+-seat auditorium.

TICO Compression Supporters Announce the Launch of the TICO Alliance to Move to 4K/UHD in Live Broadcast Production.

Leading Broadcast equipment manufacturers, OEM providers, broadcasters, electronics brands and technology companies announced today the launch of the TICO Alliance. TICO is a new lightweight compression technology, which enables 4K/UHD to be transported over legacy SDI infrastructure and modern IP production and contribution networks. TICO has been developed by intoPIX and work is now ongoing … Read more

Dell Lowers High Resolution Premium

As part of a move towards making high-resolution monitors “available to everyone”, Dell has announced the P2416D – a 23.8″ model with 2560 x 1440 resolution, which will start at $370. Although it doesn’t offer high-end features like G-Sync or a curved display, the monitor does have a fully adjustable stand. Users can tilt, swivel … Read more

HDR Formats Come to HDMI

The HDMI Forum has released v2.0a of the HDMI specification, which is available to HDMI 2.0 Adopters through the HDMI Adopter Extranet. Analyst Comments There are a number of different HDR technologies available and the CEA-861.3 is a standard that allows the transmission of SMPTE ST 2084 HDR EOTF and SMPTE ST 2086 Mastering Display … Read more