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LG Takes Press to Hollywood

by Bob Raikes

LG hosted an event in Hollywood for a group of journalists from the ‘AV Enthusiast’ press and highlighted the features and quality of its OLED TVs. As well as a demonstration of calibration using …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Ericsson MediaFirst TV Platform Available on Amlogic STB Chipset

by Andrew Fenn

Ericsson Media Solutions has announced a collaboration to make its MediaFirst TV middleware available on system-on-a-chip provider Amlogic’s S905X chipset, which uses a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU and a penta-core ARM Mali-450 GPU to …

Apple TV Gets HDR Content – Probably!

by Bob Raikes

In looking for some information about Apple’s streaming, we came upon this article that explains the frustrations and problems of actually trying to watch HDR on an Apple TV. The author is something of …

T-2 Announces New Ultra HD STB, TV and SVOD Services

by Andrew Fenn

Slovenian telecommunications company T-2 will soon launch a new IPTV Ultra HD set-top-box, as well as UHD TV and SVOD services. The company claims it will be the first operator in the country to …

BenQ UltraHD Projector is Well Priced

by Bob Raikes

BenQ has released the TK800 UltraHD 0.47″ single chip DLP home theatre projector with 3,000 Ansi lumens of output and supporting 92% of Rec. 709. 10 bit colour is supported and a claimed 10,000:1 …

LDM V25 Vol 11 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

LG has released pricing for the G Series OLED TVs. We previously reported the C, E and W series. (Pricing Information Released for LG’s 2018 OLED Line) The G8 is available just in 65″ …

BenQ 28″ UltraHD Monitor is for ‘Video Enjoyment’

by Bob Raikes

BenQ has introduced a 27″ UltraHD monitor (described as a ‘Video enjoyment’ model), the EL2870U. It supports HDR, but the maximum output is 300 cd/m², so it doesn’t meet the VESA base level HDR400 …

LG Goes OLED but Drops Dolby Vision

by Milos Pavlovic

LG majored on its new V30SThinQ smartphone at the show. The phone looks very competent and LG said it had focused on ‘ABCD’ – the audio, battery, camera and display. The audio side uses …

Epix Announces UHD Content and Standalone Subscription Service

by Andrew Fenn

US cable network Epix is preparing to launch its own standalone subscription video service later this year. The company’s executive VP and GM, Monty Sahran, broke the news during an interview with Variety earlier …

Sky Q Announces Spotify and HDR for Spring Update

by Andrew Fenn

Sky has announced a raft of new features coming to Sky Q this spring. Voice functionality will be extended to provide personalised recommendations and app-specific requests, as part of a more personalised experience throughout …

Thoughts on ACESnext

by Chris Chinnock

ACES (the Academy Color Encoding System) version 1.0 has been released for about two years now. It was developed as a way to more easily manage color consistency across multiple cameras and through the …

Tags:ACES| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HPA Tech Retreat| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 08

Black Level Visibility Study

by Chris Chinnock

Dolby Labs and contributors at EPFL reported at the HPA Retreat on a new study they recently undertook. The goal was to understand how the perception of black level was affected by the eye’s …