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Fraunhofer Explains its Virtual Camera Technology at IBC 2014

by Raverstead

We’ve posted an interview with Frederik Zilly of Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen, who explained how the Fraunhofer is using multiple camera arrays to capture many in focus images of a scene with deep depth …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Fraunhofer| IBC 2014

SES Sees Video Demand as “Infinite”

by Super User

Every year, SES holds an event ahead of IBC that draws much of the European press that is interested in the TV landscape in the region. The first speaker was Ferdinand Kayser, chief commercial …

Tags:IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| SES| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

IBC Round-up

by Super User

We’ve been reporting on the 4Ever government-driven project in France since April 2012 when the project was established to test and develop UltraHD technology. The group has been working on HEVC encoding testing and …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Sky Reports on UltraHD Test with SES

by Super User

Stephan Heimbacher of Sky Deutschland spoke at a seminar by SES about the live delivery of UltraHD TV tests that were conducted. Sky has been looking at UltraHD for some years and is working …

Tags:IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Sky| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Vestel Adds Mobile Phones

by Super User

Slightly surprisingly, Vestel had a lot of digital signage monitors at IFA. Also, slightly surprising at IBC, the news that we got was about the company’s new smartphones that have been developed in-house although …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Sigma SoC Supports HEVC Main-10 UltraHD

by Super User

Sigma Designs had a meeting room and welcomed us with news of its SMP8758 SoC which supports UltraHD and HEVC. The chip supports up to the Main-10 profile that forms part of UltraHD Phase …

Tags:IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| SOCs| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

BBC Icon Says Humans Have Ascended into Insignificance

by Super User

Sunday morning kicked off with Professor Brian Cox, star of the BBC’s science coverage giving a keynote talk. He was introduced by Ray Snoddy, the moderator as “David Attenborough’s successor”, a position he was …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Access Has Three Lines to Promote Including Vidipath

by Super User

Access was showing its latest middleware and browser technology. The browser continues to be developed for TV use and also for auto applications and an announcement at the show was that the browser is …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Active Video Networks Waiting for Charter

by Super User

We have been reporting on Active Video Networks (they don’t like to use AVN as it also stands for “Adult Video News, the “trade news” for the US porn industry!) since we met with …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

AMD Has “Teradici Without Chips”

by Super User

AMD was showing how its professional graphics boards can support UltraHD and the firm was demonstrating the FirePro W9100 GPU card running dual Dell 3840 x 2160 displays, although up to three can be …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Canon Positions Displays & Cameras for Rec 2020 Colour

by Super User

Canon made a lot of noise about supporting Rec 2020 colour with its DV-V3010 UltraHD monitor, via a firmware upgrade (and reported in Large Display Monitor). As we suspected, this means that the monitor …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

DivX & MainConcept Stay Busy

by Super User

DivX and MainConcept have now split again from Rovi and had their own booth. Emphasis at the show was on HEVC support and new codecs and the company was showing live encoding of three …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21