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Disguise And ROE Visual Partner To Advance Extended Reality And Virtual Production

In 2020, disguise launched its award-winning xR workflow that allows creative and technical teams to render photorealistic graphics content from engines like Unreal Engine on LED surfaces developed by companies like ROE Visual. With the help of camera tracking technology, these graphics can then be displayed in-camera as real-time, 3D, photorealistic environments that immerse actors, … Read more

Intel and NHK Stream 8K Video Through an 80 Mbps Broadband Connection

What They Say We reported on work Intel did in streaming 8K through broadband connections at 80Mbps (Intel Supports Live 8K Stream for 2020 Olympics). Next|TV interviewed Intel about the project and got a bit more comment on the project and the value of higher resolution in sports broadcasting. What We Think Intel always likes … Read more

Sony Opts Out of October Tradeshows

What They Say Sony has decided to drop out of both the NAB and Infocomm shows that are due next month because of the ever-changing Covid-19 situation. However, the firm will have an online press event before NAB. The event will be Sunday, October 10 at 9am PT/12pm ET at NABShow.com/Live and pro.sony What We … Read more

Upgrade to Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K

What They Say As well as introducing new Amazon-branded TVs, the firm has updated the Fire TV Stick 4K. It has a new quad-core 1.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM to give more fluid performance. It will have Wi-fi 6 support and is based on the Mediatek MT7921LS Wi-Fi 6 chipset. It supports 4K UHD, … Read more

Links Week Commencing 13th September 2021

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. The best Dolby Vision movies to test your TV Vimeo adds Dolby Vision support, but only for Apple devices TSMC to build advanced chip plant in southern Taiwan … Read more

LG Ads Introduces Personalized Smart TV Platform, River OS

LG Ads Solutions, leaders in connected TV and cross-screen advertising, introduced a new smart TV operating system, called River OS. River OS is built for ultimate personalization, seamless navigations across apps, devices, and services, and advanced voice-controlled TV features at affordable price points. The company has multiple OEM (original equipment manufacturer) partnerships in place, through … Read more

HDR: Part 32 – Creative Technology – Film Scanning

What They Say The Broadcast Bridge wrote an article about the continuing use of film scanners to digitise film-recorded content. It has lots of information on telecine and datacine (for digital intermediates) machines. It also talks about how the sensors can be replaced. for example, by a Sony Pregia 6.5K sensor and the article looks … Read more