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We have been reporting on Active Video Networks (they don’t like to use AVN as it also stands for “Adult Video News, the “trade news” for the US porn industry!) since we met with the company in January 2010 in the Hilton at CES. The company has a cloud-based approach to services for TV services … Read more
AMD was showing how its professional graphics boards can support UltraHD and the firm was demonstrating the FirePro W9100 GPU card running dual Dell 3840 x 2160 displays, although up to three can be supported at up to 60Hz. There was also a demonstration of a dual AJA board system that was being used to … Read more
Canon made a lot of noise about supporting Rec 2020 colour with its DV-V3010 UltraHD monitor, via a firmware upgrade (and reported in Large Display Monitor). As we suspected, this means that the monitor supports the Rec 2020 transfer function and maps to the colour gamut, but it does not support the full gamut of … Read more
Hitachi’s newest Smart projector – currently unnamed – is able to throw a 40″ image from just 1cm from the display area. The company had it set up on a desk in the small booth, where the image appeared both bright and sharp. Resolution is 1280 x 800 and the projector can mirror content from … Read more
DivX and MainConcept have now split again from Rovi and had their own booth. Emphasis at the show was on HEVC support and new codecs and the company was showing live encoding of three simultaneous streams of 1/2, 1.5 and 4 Mbits for Dash applications. There was also a demonstration of the latest Divx web … Read more
We met with Dolby in its hotel suite at IFA and reported on that meeting in our IFA report. At IBC, Dolby was highlighting the “Maui” 32″ display showing Dolby Vision content that we saw in Berlin. We had the chance to catch up with Pat Griffis (Executive Director, Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO … Read more
The Fraunhofer has a Digital Cinema Alliance that is a kind of “horizontal” grouping of a number of different Fraunhofer institutes (IIS, IDMT, HHI etc) to work together on digital cinema and TV topics. The IIS has worked on MP3, JPEG and other media areas as well as developing test material for the Digital Cinema … Read more
A new display series, the LQ70 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 15), was on show at Panasonic’s stand. Introduced at NAB this year, it consists of 84″ (TH-84LQ70) and 98″ (TH-98LQ70) UltraHD LCD models. Designed for broadcast production and digital signage, Panasonic hopes that the LQ70 series will catch replacement demand from customers replacing the … Read more
Damien Weissenburger is a business director at Sony Professional, whom we have met before. We had a long discussion with him about Sony’s vision for the future when it comes to projectors – the Lifespace UX concept from IFA came up more than once! Most of the roadblocks in the way of UltraHD have now … Read more
Toshiba’s new TD-E signage display series is a lower-cost alternative to the TD-Z series. Unlike the TD-Z products, which can run 24/7, the TD-E screens are rated for 16/7 usage and do not feature DVI chaining (because they don’t have a DVI port!). A 40″ unit was on show at Toshiba’s stand, but there will … Read more
NEC was showing the PX602UL (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 7): a laser-LED hybrid installation projector. The projector features UltraHD video processing and HDBaseT, DisplayPort, HDMI (x2), VGA, USB and RJ45 connections, as well as an OPS slot. As a solid-state model, it supports 360 deg projection and will last for about 20,000 hours. Originally … Read more
Pace told us that from the point of view of its STBs, it is “ready for UltraHD”. The company has a new User Interface platform framework (based, we were told, on Adobe tools rather than HTML5), that is said to allow “sexier” interface designs. There were new large (home gateway) STBs on display as well … Read more
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