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Sigma Designs to distribute reference designs with Frog by Wyplay pre-integrated

by Vanessa Browning

Sigma Designs® (NASDAQ: SIGM), a leading provider of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for Smart TV, Internet of Things for Smart home, media connectivity and set-top-boxes (STBs) will be showcasing the turnkey integration of the open-source …

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Neotion, Broadpeak and Eutelsat provide satellite OTT delivery solution for smartphones, tablets and 4K screens

by Helen Vince

NEOTION, a French high-tech company providing innovative solutions for the international digital TV market, today announced that it has teamed up with Broadpeak and Eutelsat to provide a global solution to enable Free-To-Air or …

Tags:OTT Video| Smartphones| tablets| UltraHD & 4K

UltraHD Climbing Rapidly in Korea

by Tom Allen

UltraHD TVs represented more than 50% of 55″+ TV sales at the end of Q4’14 in Korea, said domestic retailer Lotte Hi-Mart, speaking to ET News. A Korean channel source forecast that the share would rise …

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Specs are Great but is it too Late?

by Tom Allen

Victor Matsuda, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, has discussed the upcoming UltraHD Blu-ray standard and what it will offer over streaming video. Because physical media has a much greater bandwidth than most internet …

Tags:Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Sky Factory Launches eScape 2.0, Smart Digital Cinema Virtual Window with Integrated Platform

by Vanessa Browning

Sky Factory’s best–selling Digital Cinema Virtual Window, eScape, now brings the dynamic beauty of nature—real-time moving images and sound in Full HD—in a simpler integrated platform that features an intuitive on-screen menu, easy to …

Tags:UltraHD & 4K| Virtual Displays

Super Bowl’s UltraHD Cameras Not Used for Transmission

by Vanessa Browning

Super Bowl 2015 is likely to use up to six UltraHD cameras, according to panelists at last year’s SMPTE conference in Hollywood. The cameras will be used to to zoom and showcase key plays, …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Ultra HD Blu-ray Plans Firming Up

by Chris Chinnock

At CES 2015, we met with the Blu-ray Disc Association to learn more about how the specification is developing and when we can expect products in the market. It now looks as though the …

Toshiba Shows Glasses-Free 3D Display at CES 2015

by Chris Chinnock

Toshiba Corporation used CES 2015 to showcase a new glasses-free 3D 15.4” 4K resolution display. By using a GRIN (GRadient INdex) lens, Toshiba was able to achieve very low cross-talk between the left and …

IEEE Adopts HDBaseT Standard for 4K Connectivity

by Chris Chinnock

At CES 2015, the HDBaseT Alliance announced that the HDBaseT Specifications 1.1.0 and 2.0 have been approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board for adoption as part of the organization’s standard portfolio. …

DivX Searches for New Identity

by Chris Chinnock

DivX is a company I (CC) have a hard time understanding, so in our meeting at CES, I asked them to explain what they did and what their mission is. Even after their explanation, I …

JVC to demo GY-LS300 4K Super35 Cam at Sundance

by Vanessa Browning

JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, will demonstrate the new GY-LS300 4KCAM Super 35mm camcorder for filmmakers attending the 2015 Sundance Film Festival at the New York Lounge in Park City, …

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LDM Product Roundup: Volume 22 No 4

by Tom Allen

Amazon is offering a discount on LG‘s 55″ EC9300 OLED TV (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 30). As part of a promotion around the NFL Superbowl (2nd February), the TV has been lowered from $3,500 …