SES Industry Days 2015 – Display Daily

BBC Approach to HDR Has Advantages for Broadcasters

by Bob Raikes

There’s no question that High Dynamic Range (HDR) is a very hot topic. We’ve been tracking it in detail over the last year, especially after impressive demonstrations at IFA and IBC, reinforced by more …

Tags:BBC| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| SES Industry Days 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 20

SES Industry Days 2015 Conclusion

by Bob Raikes

We enjoyed this event which was very interesting. Thomas Wrede of SES was a congenial and energetic host. UltraHD and HDR in particular are hot topics and there was some useful information. The SAT>IP …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SES Industry Days 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 19

DMT Has New Interface and UltraHD STB Upgrade

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker was Hyung Lim from DMT in Korea, although the firm also has offices in the US. DMT has developed a new box, 4SeTV which allows the merging and playback of four …

IoT Makes Demands on STBs

by Bob Raikes

Hyperpanel is a software company from France and is working on SAT>IP and Laurent Jabiol introduced the company. The firm was founded in 1986 and was the creator of MediaHighway. It was the first …

MStar Explains its Business

by Bob Raikes

Patrick Molin is from MStar in Taiwan. The company was only formed in 2002 by some engineers from TSMC and started with simple chips, but quickly got into TV SoCs and was one of …

SelfSat Antenna Can Include SAT>IP LNB

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker in the SAT>IP session was Seung Joon IM from “I DO IT” and he talked about a new flat antenna for SAT>IP. Joon set up the company after leaving LG and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SAT>IP| SES Industry Days 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 19

Triax LNBs Can Support SAT>IP

by Bob Raikes

Peter Lyhne Uhrenholt is from Triax and he spoke about LNBs that can directly support SAT>IP. Triax is from Denmark and has been around for more than 65 years. Most of its business is …

SAT>IP is Developing

by Bob Raikes

The second day started with more technical content on broadcast and then moved into a session on SAT>IP. We have been reporting on the concept (where satellite-supplied content is put straight into a home …

Satellite Can Push UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Gregory Beaurin of Quadrille in France and he looked at the issues for delivering multimedia content over satellite as satellite TV companies have to be able to add On Demand …

HDPlus Wants to Move to Support UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Georges Agnes runs the SES HD Plus initiative in Germany and he talked about the plans for UltraHD and multiscreen. HDPlus has a platform that costs €5 per month to get 20 pay channels …

HbbTV Changing to Match Multiscreen

by Bob Raikes

The final session of the first day covered service and platform initiatives and the first speaker was Laurent Etienne, the CTT of HTTV, a French middleware company. He has been involved in the standards …

Samsung Likes BBC Proposal for Broadcast HDR

by Bob Raikes

John Adam of Samsung was the next speaker and he gave the “set makers’” point of view. He said that consumers are buying UHD sets and that is also driving the growth of sets …