IBC 2016 – Page 2 – Display Daily

Dolby Working On Broadcasters

by Bob Raikes

Dolby had its usual place on the show floor and was showing both its Dolby Vision developments and its Atmos audio, although we focused strongly on the video side when we went on the …

You.i TV Wants to Exploit GPUs

by Bob Raikes

We met with You.i TV, an Ottowa-based Canadian small company (200 staff) that is looking to develop apps for TV as the company believes that Apps are the future of TV. The company, which …

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DVB Expecting HDR Decisions Soon

by Bob Raikes

DVB held its ‘same procedure as last year’ press conference on the first day of IBC. Peter MacAvock is the newly elected chairman of the DVB to replace Phil Laven. MacAvock started by introducing …

More, Better, Faster!

by Bob Raikes

Over the last couple of years, I have checked out almost all of the companies at IBC that were talking about UltraHD. This year, that simply wouldn’t have been possible as everybody was talking …

ABox42 is a German STB maker that started by being more flexible than the global brands in making relatively small designs and production runs, which suits the many small cable vendors in Germany and …

Want a Bright Display? How About 10K candelas?

by Bob Raikes

One of the most intriguing displays in the Future Technology Zone at IBC was a booth that was being manned by Professor Alan Chalmers from the University of Warwick and Domenico Toffoli, Head of …

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Technicolor Press Event Centres on HDR

by Bob Raikes

Technicolor held a press lunch event to talk about its technology. Unfortunately, the event was attended by more press than expected, so the room was rather more dispersed than might have been hoped, which …

Sony Looks to Services and Renews Monitors

by Bob Raikes

The Sony press event started with a full volume corporate video. Interestingly for a projector maker, Sony used flat panel displays for its presentation, with the main one a large Bravia set. Adam Fry, …

SES Updates on UltraHD and Company Development

by Bob Raikes

Ferdinand Kaiser is the CEO of SES and his talk was called ‘Meeting the exponential demand for content’. There is a forecast of 3% CAGR in the use of bandwidth for video. 70% of …

Ericsson Highlights End to End Service

by Bob Raikes

Ericsson held a press event and briefing on the day before IBC. Stella Medlicott, CMO of Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services was the first speaker and she started by explaining that Ericsson has over …

IBC Buzzes

by Milos Pavlovic

IBC saw attendees of 55,796 said the organisers of the event, with more than 1,800 exhibitors. That’s around the same number of visitors as last year and 2014. The organisers put a lot of …

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MaxLinear and Realtek target reference design at 4K UHD satellite PVR market

by Isaac Oburu

MaxLinear Inc., a leading provider of radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal integrated circuits for cable and satellite broadband communications, the connected home, data center, metro, long-haul fiber networks, and wireless infrastructure, and Realtek Semiconductor …

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