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France’s 4Ever consortium has captured a basketball game and music concert (the Transmusicales music festival in Rennes) using the UltraHD Phase 2 format (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 35). These events tested the higher framerates and high dynamic range included in Phase 2. Display Daily Comments UltraHD phase 2 is what everybody else is calling … Read more
The Alienware Alpha PC gaming console (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 32) is now available in the USA, starting at $550. Although technically a Steam Machine, the device runs Windows 8.1 natively and boots into Alienware’s own Alpha UI. Users can launch Steam Big Picture mode from here.
AMD has announced a new driver for its GPUs and APUs that challenges Nvidia technologies. Replacing Catalyst 14.9, the Catalyst Omega driver is said to raise GPU performance by up to 19% on high-end GPUs and 29% on APUs, when used with newer games such as Bioshock Infinite. New features are also included, such as … Read more
Kenyan ASO, which has been delayed several times (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 50 and Vol 20 No 48), is apparently set to begin again. Francis Wangusi, director general of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), is quoted by local newspaper The Star as saying, “[T]he switch-off must happen before the end of the year, … Read more
Antik Telecom, in Slovakia, will launch a hybrid OTT-satellite TV service in Q1’15. There will be six pay-TV packages, with up to 80 channels. The satellite portion will use the DVB-S2 format. Additionally, Antik will launch a mobile TV service (Antik TV Go) in December, with up to 47 channels. Finally, the company announced plans … Read more
Namibian public broadcaster NBC will turn off analogue broadcasts on 31st January next year. The date represents a slight delay to the original date (15th December) after an appeal to ensure that enough decoders have been sold.
‘At least’ half of the members of the The Africa Telecommunications Union (ATU) will not meet the June 2015 analogue switch-off date, the organisation has said. Reasons for the delays include public resistance, lack of commitment by governments and resistance from private broadcasting firms.
AUO will expand TV panel production at its G8.5 facilities next year, say Asian news sources. According to reports, capacity will rise by about 10,000 substrates a month in the second half of 2015.
Panasonic’s AX800 TVs are now able to stream UltraHD content from Netflix. The firmware update has been rolled out to the USA already and will be available in Europe this month.
Barnfind has installed a new fibre optic transport system to connect the Norwegian Nationals Soccer Stadium in Ullevål. The connection sends uncompressed video directly to TV Norge. As well as sending video back to the broadcaster, control signals can be sent to the stadium. Display Daily Comments A couple of years ago at CES, I … Read more
A calibration tool for UltraHD and DCI-4k displays has been developed by Joe Kane Productions, in the USA. Digital Video Essentials UHD v0.9 provides tools to assess content creation and home theatre products. Available on a USB 3.0 thumb drive, the software contains test signals and static images, from 8-bit to lossless 16-bit high dynamic … Read more
Google will not fix a framerate issue with its Chromecast device, it has said. In Europe, most video content is delivered at 25fps or 50fps, but Chromecast is hard-wired to send video at 60fps. The result is a mismatch in frames, displayed as judder. ‘Chromecast cannot attempt to handle changes in HDMI refresh rates since … Read more
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