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Comcast Is the First to Offer 1080p HDR

by Chris Chinnock

That’s right – High Dynamic Range is coming to Comcast subscribers this summer – and it will be implemented on 1080p video, not UHD video. This possibility has been discussed for some time, but …

Tags:Comcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Olympics

Optoma Prepares for Olympics

by Tom Allen

Optoma is preparing for a sports-filled summer, with three new projectors designed for easy set-up and with low input lag (for gaming). The H114, H183X and S331 DLP projectors all feature Texas Instruments’ BrilliantColor, …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Olympics| Optoma| Vol 23 - Issue 15

NBC Chooses Leyard LEDs

by Tom Allen

NBC Olympics, a division of US broadcaster NBC, has chosen to use Leyard’s LED video walls for its production of this year’s Olympic Games. Leyard will supply NBC with three TVH Series LED video …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Leyard| Olympics| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Olympics to be Broadcast in VR

by Tom Allen

The Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) has said that it will capture virtual reality footage at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The footage will be both broadcast live and made available to download, although how …

Tags:Broadcast| Mobile Display Monitor| Olympics| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 09

Olympics Used to Test 8k, WCG and HDR

by Tom Allen

UltraHD will not be broadcast from the Olympics in Rio (IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio) – but the format will not be entirely absent. Japan’s NHK will record at least some …

Tags:4k| Brazil| Cameras| Japan| Large Display Monitor| NHK| Olympics| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 09

Olympic Games Organizers Reject 4K

by Isaac Oburu

The CTO of the Olympic Games’ Olympic Broadcast Services has confirmed that there will be no 4K/UHD transmissions from the Rio event this summer. Sotiris Salamouris told trade magazine TVB Europe that that he …

Tags:4k| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Olympics| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 05

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Panasonic Signs as Olympic Ceremony Partner

by Tom Allen

Panasonic, for the first time, will be an Official Ceremony Partner of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The company will provide more than 100 of its PT-DZ21K2 projectors, multiple broadcast-grade AV-HS6000 series …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Olympics| Panasonic| Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Events, Dear Boy, Events…

by Bob Raikes

Famously, Harold Macmillan, a British Prime Minister of the 1950s, said once that governments were often re-directed by “Events, dear boy, events” (although Wikipedia says that the attribution is a mistake). Last week, I …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Olympics| Vol 22 - Issue 43

IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio

by Tom Allen

The Internal Olympics Committee has said that it has ‘no plans” for UltraHD TV broadcasts during the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Yiannis Exarchos, CEO of Olympic Broadcast Services, said, “There is no …

Tags:4k| Brazil| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Olympics| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 08