IBC 2017 – Display Daily

IHS Markit Presented its Analysis of the Telco Video Business at IBC

by Alan Spencer

At Amsterdam’s annual International Broadcasting Convention tradeshow, IHS Markit presented its analysis on the evolution of the telco video business. As part of the presentation, 50 leading telco video groups were identified by subscription …

Intel’s Project Alloy is Over

by Bob Raikes

Somehow, some of our comments on Intel at IBC didn’t make it into our IBC report. Intel was showing an Asus PC with an Oculus Rift to show how its new processors could cope …

IBC Interest is Mainly in Smaller Displays

by Bob Raikes

Quite a few of the interesting display developments at IBC were previewed at NAB, but many of the products were shown for the first time in Europe. For us, a highlight was the Eizo …

IBC 2017 LED Display Roundup

by Bob Raikes

IBC is an important event for companies that are in the LED market and that want to supply the fine-pitch LEDs that many broadcasters like to have as video walls in their studios. Most …

Flanders Scientific Have OLED & 2K HDR LCD Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Flanders Scientific is a specialist supplier of broadcast monitors that has a special relationship with Zunzheng Digital Video Co Ltd in China as a sales agent and also supporting manufacturing. One new monitor was …

Tivo Sees Big Interest in its Voice Technology

by Bob Raikes

After the takeover of Tivo by Rovi and the change of name to Tivo, the company remains a supplier of ‘entertainment discovery solutions’. In the past, Rovi impressed us with the quality of its …

ADB Getting More Nimble

by Bob Raikes

ADB is always an interesting company. Being based in Switzerland, it has to be very flexible and over the years we have seen the company move in a number of different directions. We heard …

Calman Making Life Easier for Calibrators

by Bob Raikes

Portrait Displays and its Calman group were at the show and we took the chance to get an update since PDL took over Spectracal, which created Calman software. The big news, of course, was …

Tags:Display Calibration| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Portrait Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Ikegami Looking to HDR for New Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Ikegami is a specialist supplier of cameras and monitors for broadcast as well as medical applications. There were a number of new monitors as well as what it claims is the world’s first 2/3 …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Canon Adds More HDR Support

by Bob Raikes

Canon was showing a number of different displays including HDR reference monitors and an LCOS projector with HDR support. Products shown included the existing DP-V2420 which was introduced last year at IBC. The company …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Canon| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35

BBC Updates on HLG Status

by Bob Raikes

Andrew Cotton from the BBC’s R&D department is one of the developers of the HLG EOTF and gave an update on the development of support for the technology as one of SES’s excellent technical …

AMD Hosts Ventuz for Fast 3D

by Bob Raikes

AMD had a booth at the show and, as usual, had both plenty of news and enthusiasm. We first talked with Ventuz, a German company based in Munich and that specialises in live AV …