Christie & Dolby Impress with 3D
A great feature of IBC is the “Big Screen Experience”. This year, the focus was on Christie’s 6P laser projection which was showing full brightness, 14 foot lamberts (or 48 cd/m
BBC Icon Says Humans Have Ascended into Insignificance
Sunday morning kicked off with Professor Brian Cox, star of the BBC’s science coverage giving a keynote talk. He was introduced by Ray Snoddy, the moderator as “David Attenborough’s successor”, a position he was nominated for by David Attenborough, a BBC icon, himself. Cox said that Carl Sagan’s Cosmos TV programme was the spark for … Read more
Modify Totem Brightness With AG Neovo
Jorgen Abildgaard of AG Neovo showed us a new double-sided signage display that has just been launched. It is currently available in a 55″ size, with a 46″ to follow later in the year. Using a totem form factor, the unit has two interchangeable screens: one with 450 cd/m
Access Has Three Lines to Promote Including Vidipath
Access was showing its latest middleware and browser technology. The browser continues to be developed for TV use and also for auto applications and an announcement at the show was that the browser is now being integrated with Zenterio middleware. The company told us that it has two versions of the browser, the original one … Read more
BenQ Accepts Competitors’ Lenses
The PU9730 is BenQ’s first projector with interchangeable lenses. To provide customers with more choice, the unit has seven different lens options, with throw ratios ranging from 0.75:1 to 8.67:1. So that customers are not locked into a single ecosystem, lenses for 1DLP projectors from Panasonic and NEC will also work. Lenses can be swapped … Read more
Active Video Networks Waiting for Charter
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 Has “Teradici Without Chips”
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 Positions Displays & Cameras for Rec 2020 Colour
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 Takes UST to the Next Level
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 & MainConcept Stay Busy
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
Dolby Shows Prototype Display in Public
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
Fraunhofer May Have Solution for 3D Content
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
