Magnachip Wins With LG
Magnachip Semiconductor has announced that it is supplying LG Display with display panel driver integrated circuits for UltraHD TVs.
USA Drive-Ins Hopes to Revitalise American Tradition With NEC
USA Drive-Ins has chosen to exclusively use NEC projectors at its new drive-in cinema locations. NEC’s NC3200S and NC3240S projectors will be used in both the ‘traditional’ locations, set for completion next year, and ‘pop-up’ drive-ins.
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
TV brands
Hmm… I’m having one of those mornings. I got up extra early as I knew I had a lot to do. After sorting out some web shop issues, in moving too fast through the dialogues, I mistakenly clicked on a “do you want to upgrade your version of software” dialogue, forgetting that this component is … Read more
Canon Shows ACES On-Set Workflow
Canon was exhibiting at the SMPTE Fall Conference where it was highlighting its ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) workflow for 4K content. This was partly used to highlight the capabilities of its DP-V3010 4K LCD reference monitor
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
High Frame Rate Updates from SMPTE Conference
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Highlights from the SMPTE Fall Conference and HPA Symposium
Display Daily was at the recent SMPTE Fall Conference and the pre-show Symposium put on by HPA (Hollywood Post Alliance). The event was held in the Loews Hollywood Hotel and in the famous El Capitan Theater across the street. There were dozens of technical papers and a full exhibition area. We didn
Is AVB Coming to Broadcast?
Replacing SDI and distributing audio, video and data within a video production facility can be done using standard Ethernet protocols (IP) or using a modified version called Audio Video Bridging (AVB). At the SMPTE Fall Conference, Jan Eveleens of Axon Technologies gave a very nice summary of the features of AVB and the state of … Read more
