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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
Convergent Design has used Semtech’s GS6140 6G UHD-SDI cable equaliser and GS6080 6G UHD-SDI cable driver for its new Odyssey 7Q+ monitor/recorder.
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 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
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
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.
Intel’s Realsense 3D camera has already been installed on monitors and tablets – Dell’s Venue 8 7000, for instance – and the company is now planning to bring the technology to smartphones. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich showed a prototype 6″ phone at an event in China this month, with a camera about half the size … Read more
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
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
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
The Venue 10 7000 has been added to Dell’s OLED tablet line up, which already includes an 8.4″ model (Dell Goes OLED on World’s Thinnest Tablet). At 10.5″, the new tablet is the same size as the larger Galaxy Tab S (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25) – just as the Venue 8 7000 is … Read more
The Hillsboro Civic Centre in Oregon, USA has had a new 16-display video wall installed, using 46″ displays from Planar – also based in Hillsboro. Each display has 1920 x 1080 resolution. The wall, which cost $129,000, replaces a projector.
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