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Sony’s press conference was hard to find – we were sent to three different places before we found it! So, sadly, we missed the start and by the time we got there, there was …
Tags:4K DCI| Cameras| Ethernet| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21
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Before the show, our reporter caught up with Rovi’s Charles Dawes to discuss the company’s presence at the show. We had heard at CES that Rovi was seeking to sell its DivX business, and …
Tags:EPGs| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Rovi| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21
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Vixs was in a positive mood at IBC, as it had been at CES, as it has currently the “only fully working UltraHD HEVC chip in production”. The XCode 6400 chip is in five …
Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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