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LG Presents Display Products at Flux Lounge

Engage Productions’ Flux Innovation Lounge in London will host new products from LG at an event on 6th November. As well as a videowall made of nine 55″ LCD displays – with an IR touch overlay – an individual 84″ UltraHD screen with touch will be demonstrated. Finally, visitors will be able to see three … Read more

EU Clears Dolby/Doremi Acquisition

The European Commission’s antitrust authorities have approved Dolby Laboratories’ proposed acquisition of Doremi Labs. The two companies signed a definitive agreement in February under the terms of which Dolby would acquire Doremi for $92.5 million in cash, plus an additional $20 million contingency that could be earned over a four-year period (Display Monitor Vol 21 … Read more

FCC Halts US ‘Super-Mergers’

Significant acquisition deals in the USA have been put on hold by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The organisation has stopped its 180-day review schedules for the mergers of AT&T and DirecTV, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable, citing concerns about transparency. The deals between the merging companies and content providers, such as CBS and … Read more

Dynamic Focus on 22″ Full HD LCD Monitors

This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 22″ Full HD category, which includes sizes from 21.5″ to 22.9″ with resolution of 1920 x 1080. There are 15 brands featured in the advertising with Samsung, Iiyama and LG the top three advertised brands over the three countries. In France, Iiyama leads followed by Samsung … Read more

Colorfront Shows High Performance Solutions at SMPTE Conference

Colorfront (Budapest, Hungary) provides some of the most powerful content creation and transcoding tools in the industry serving both cinema as well as TV production. At the SMPTE Fall Conference, we had a chance to sit down with CTO Bill Feightner to learn more. Feightner is a well recognized expert on color science and he … Read more

HEVC is Realizing Promised Benefits Now

HEVC is the latest codec for video applications and is the successor to H.264 and MPEG-2 in the broadcast environment – especially for distribution to the home via a variety of methods. At the SMPTE Fall Conference, we listened to a paper from John Pallett at Telestream, which sought to compare the theoretical benefits of … Read more