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Sony’s press conference was hard to find – we were sent to three different places before we found it! So, sadly, we missed the start and by the time we got there, there was a discussion of the PXW-FS7 professional camcorder, which uses a new Super 35mm Exmor sensor to give more than 14 stops … Read more
Vixs was in a positive mood at IBC, as it had been at CES, as it has currently the “only fully working UltraHD HEVC chip in production”. The XCode 6400 chip is in five shipping products including units from Sharp and Panasonic. The company is also happy as it can support Rec 2020 colour (as … Read more
We’ve been reporting on the 4Ever government-driven project in France since April 2012 when the project was established to test and develop UltraHD technology. The group has been working on HEVC encoding testing and looking at other “better pixel” features including doing some tests of HDR technology for soccer. These could be particularly helpful where … Read more
Aten launched a 16×16 modular matrix (VM1600) switch, with hot-swappable input/output cards. Currently it supports HDMI and DVI cards, but DisplayPort, SDI, HDBaseT and VGA will be added by the end of the year. Videowall software is built in, enabling control of a 4×4 videowall. Source switching speed, a significant focus of the matrix, is … Read more
Slightly surprisingly, Vestel had a lot of digital signage monitors at IFA. Also, slightly surprising at IBC, the news that we got was about the company’s new smartphones that have been developed in-house although the company also had plenty of TVs and public displays. One of the reasons for Vestel’s entry into the market is … Read more
Distec in Germany is now carrying a range of industrial displays in 10.4″, 15″, 17.3″ and 19″ sizes. They are intended for use in 19″ rack cabinets, with two handles to aid installation and a 3mm-thick front plate of steel, for support. Customers have the option of VGA or DVI inputs and can add resistive … Read more
Epatra is now distributing SignageLive products in Benelux, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
Clear Channel Airports has joined the USA’s Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA).
A new world record has been set by JCDecaux ATA, together with LG Electronics and KKIA. The companies have designed and installed the world’s largest outdoor advertising billboard (taking a Guinness World Record in the process), at Riyadh’s King Khaled International Airport in Saudi Arabia. The structure, which took more than three months to complete, … Read more
JCDecaux has taken a new London site, Motion@LiverpoolStreet, live. Four landscape-orientation LED screens measure 4.6m x 1.2m and target commuters passing through the station. The screens have a 6mm pixel pitch and 2,000 cd/m
Clear Channel has committed to a significant expansion of its DOOH portfolio in the UK. The first part of the expansion is called ‘Play London’, which will consist of the current Storm-branded screens (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 39) (set to double in number, to 20 sites); the LD6 network of 100 LCD displays (to … Read more
An Android-based hybrid set-top box known as ‘Miami’, supporting UltraHD content, will be launched by Bouygues Telecom in France by the end of the year. It is compatible with IPTV and DVB signals. Display Daily Comments We saw a high-end Android box from Bouygues Telecom at IBC this month, on the Marvell stand (see our … Read more
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