IBC 2016 – Display Daily

New Technology Area Round Up

by Bob Raikes

This reporter always enjoy the future technology area at IBC and I often save up visits to the end of a long day. If I get around the ‘moodily-lit STBs’, to quote Paul Gray …

BCom Converts Between SDR and HDR

by Bob Raikes

B<>Com is a French technology institute, based in the high tech area of Rennes (in the same suburb as Technicolor’s R&D facility), with satellite sites in Lannion and Brest, also in Brittany. It has …

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Flanders Scientific

by Bob Raikes

Flanders Scientific’s started by showing us its CM250 OLED monitor which has had a firmware upgrade to better handle and check metadata in HDR content. The monitor can be used on set with cameras …

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JVC Updates Monitor Range

by Bob Raikes

JVC is updating its broadcast monitor range with the new DT-V series, previewed at IBC, which uses 10 bit IPS panels in the 24″ (DT-V24G2) and wide viewing panels in the 17″ (DT-V17G25) and …

Vestel Highlights STBs

by Bob Raikes

Vestel was focusing on STBs when we went by, as we had covered the TV developments at IFA. We also had a brief discussion about the Telefonica contract in Spain. Telefonica has a special …

Humax Plans to Add Force Touch

by Bob Raikes

Humax was showing its full range of STBs. It has a new remote control that uses force-based touch to make navigation better and will be introduced in 2017. As well as better remote controls, …

Atomos Field Monitor Produces 1,500 cd/m² and Supports HDR

by Bob Raikes

We don’t regularly report on all the developments in field monitors for use on camera, but our attention was drawn to the new Atomos Shogun Inferno monitor which is claimed to be the only …

SonoVTS Builds on the Heritage of Penta

by Bob Raikes

One of the companies that I used to enjoy meeting at IBC in the past was Munich-based Penta. The company made high quality broadcast monitors that had a good reputation but hit financial problems …

UltraHD Alliance Cagey on Specs, but Bullish on UHD Blu-ray

by Bob Raikes

The UHD Alliance was at IBC to explain what it is up to. First, we heard that the UHD Forum had released new guidelines for compatibility just before IFA (UltraHD Forum Updates its Phase …

V-Nova Wins with Eutelsat and FastFilmz

by Bob Raikes

Sadly, the V-Nova press event clashed with another, so we didn’t get there, but we did get a chance to catch up with the company in its meeting room. V-Nova has a proprietary codec, …

Ruwido Looks to Improve Audio Search

by Bob Raikes

It’s always a pleasure to catch up with Ruwido, the developer of high end remote controls and the matching user interfaces. We met with Regina Bernhaupt, who is Director of User Experience Research at …

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Sigma Looking At HDMI and Low Power

by Bob Raikes

Sigma had a meeting room to talk to its ODM customers and was showing the way that its chips support Android. The company has an SDK that works on Android “M” and is being …