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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
Ruwido was showing a “traditional” remote control with a standard button configuration, but the design is a very sleek one, with a thickness of just 2.7mm. That’s why it’s called the “Leaf”. The remote supports BTLE for voice streaming (Swisscom was the first to use this technology) and Ruwido told us that the remote could … Read more
A new vinyl-wrap service was being demonstrated for Peerless-AV’s kiosks. Companies can use this to extend their branding to the stand, as well as the display itself. The service can be applied to any unit, although is more difficult on curved kiosks. It has been very popular, we heard. Peerless is now offering IP68-rated display … Read more
Although we had already heard a lot about UltraHD at IBC and IFA, we had the chance to hear Thomas Wrede of SES give a summary from his point of view at one of the SES seminars held during IBC, so we thought we’d go along. First, Wrede talked about the importance of being closer … Read more
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