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ViXS powers first 4K Ultra HD HEVC 10-Bit OTT media player

by Bob Raikes

Vixs was showing different tone mapping strategies for HDR contentViXS has had a good time recently as it has been ahead of most of its competition with UltraHD support in the XCode 6400. The …

Google Looking to Displace HEVC Compression

by Raverstead

Broadcast & Distribution – HEVC, or “High Efficiency Video Coding,” is showing promise to make internet-delivered Ultra-HDTV a reality, as it can provide about a 50% bitrate saving over MPEG 4/AVC (H.264), becoming a …

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Hardware and Standards Wrestle in the Marketplace

by Aldo Cugnini

Broadcast & Distribution – Hardware manufacturers and standards developers have often clashed when it comes to inter-compatibility and longevity of solutions. Once a solution takes hold in the marketplace, it can be very difficult to evolve …

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Antik Has Big Plans for Slovakia

by Raverstead

Antik Telecom, in Slovakia, will launch a hybrid OTT-satellite TV service in Q1’15. There will be six pay-TV packages, with up to 80 channels. The satellite portion will use the DVB-S2 format. Additionally, Antik …

CRA Hails -T2 Test A Success

by Raverstead

Ceske Radiokomunikace (CRA), in the Czech Republic, says that it is the first Central European company to successfully test DVB-T2 with HEVC. The trials began in July (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 28) and …

Tags:Czech Republic| DVB-T & T2| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

High-End STB Shipments to Rise Quickly to 2020

by Raverstead

Worldwide UltraHD-capable set-top box shipments will reach 48 million by 2020, says ABI Research. HEVC STB shipments will climb even higher, to 88 million units. Only about 60,000 STBs with both features will be …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Windows 10 Receives Native Format Support

by Raverstead

The latest update to the Windows 10 Technical Preview has added native support for advanced video and audio codecs. These include MKV, HEVC and lossless audio format FLAC. Display Daily Comments This may help …

BDA Pushes Adoption of New Display Technologies

by Super User

We knew it was coming. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced at IFA that it was ‘most of the way done’ with defining a specification enabling the format to handle UltraHD imagery. Chairman Victor Matsuda …

Digital TV Labs’ Test Suite Checks Compliance

by Super User

Digital TV Labs is launching products designed to accelerate the development and deployment of UltraHD HEVC services. The organisation’s HEVC for DVB Test Suite enables SoC, STB and TV vendors to check their products’ …

DivX Certifies MStar

by Super User

MStar’s HEVC TV SoC will be the first digital TV chip to receive DivX’s HEVC Certification. The Certification means that the SoC can playback HEVC UltraHD video using the DivX codec.

DivX Makes HEVC Wins

by Super User

Several new companies have been announced with products using the DivX HEVC solution. TVs from Toshiba (see Product News); LG (UltraHD models); and TCL have been named as using the format. Additionally, Wohler has …

Media Broadcast Begins -T2 Trial

by Super User

German DTT operator Media Broadcast spoke out in support of the DVB-T2 platform in June this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 23). The company has now launched a pilot project to test -T2 …

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