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SES Summarises UltraHD; Wrede Calls for HDR Standard

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Although we had already heard a lot about UltraHD at IBC and IFA, we had the chance to hear Thomas Wrede of SES give a summary from his point of view at one of …

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Neotion Looks to Headless HDMI

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We’ve been reporting on Neotion, the specialist in exploiting the CI slot in Europe’s TVs and STBs, since 2008. At the show this year, it was showing how a CAM can be used to …

Sony Shows UltraHD OLED Monitor

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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 …

Rovi Introduces Personalised Discovery Solution in Europe

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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 …

ViXS Bullish on UltraHD and HEVC

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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 …

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SES Sees Video Demand as “Infinite”

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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 …

IBC Round-up

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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 …

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Sky Reports on UltraHD Test with SES

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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 …

Vestel Adds Mobile Phones

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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 …

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Sigma SoC Supports HEVC Main-10 UltraHD

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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 …

BBC Icon Says Humans Have Ascended into Insignificance

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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 …

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