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LDM Product Roundup: Volume 22 No 3

by Tom Allen

A range of UltraHD products has been added to Crestron‘s DM 3.0 lineup. These include the DM-RMC-4K-SCALER-C (a 60Hz scaler); HDBaseT input (DMC-4K-C/DMC-4K-C-DSP) and HDMI output (DMC-4K-HDO) cards; plenium (DM-CBL-ULTRA-P) and non-plenium (DM-CBL-ULTRA-NP) type CMR HDBaseT …

Comcast Delivers UltraHD Online

by Bob Raikes

Comcast has launched its Xfinity app on Samsung’s 2014 UltraHD TVs in the USA. Customers using the app, with a 15Mbps or higher connection speed, will be able to watch UltraHD content (lower resolutions …

TCL Moves Into Quantum Dot Space

by Bob Raikes

An LCD TV using quantum dots from QD Vision has been developed and released by TCL in China. The H9700 is a 55″ UltraHD model, and the company’s first QD TV, covering 100% NTSC. …

4K/UHD TV Content Access is Growing

by Bob Raikes

With falling prices for 4k/UHD TV sets, the remaining question for the TV industry is how to provide UHD content to the consumer? While the consumer may be intrigued by the excellent images seen …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| VOD in UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Roundabout Invests in Leader for Content Creation

by Bob Raikes

Film and TV production support company Roundabout Entertainment has taken on one of Leader’s LV5490 UltraHD waveform monitors. The unit was adopted due to the growing interest in high-resolution content creation, according to Roundabout; …

Just a Few Words on TV Before I Go…

by Pete Putman

Today’s column will be my last Display Daily after nearly eight years of ruminating about this wacky, weird business we know as the display industry. Along the way, I’ve written about topics as diverse …

Tags:Black Friday| PDP| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Is Owning Content an Advantage for Hardware Makers?

by Raverstead

I promised, back in August, to come back to a topic that has kept surfacing me over a number of years. When I started the Display Monitor newsletter, back in 1994, the undoubted king …

Tags:Content Protection| sony| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 01

VIZIO Adds New Apps Supporting 4K Content – Boosts Picture Quality

by Bob Raikes

New Apps Supporting 4K Include Amazon Instant Video, UltraFlix and Toon Goggles Irvine, CA – December 22, 2014 – VIZIO, America’s #1 Smart TV brand1,announced today three additional 4K Ultra HD streaming services rolling …

Tags:UltraHD| USA| Vizio

UltraHD TV Panel Shipments Will Mainly be 50″ in Q4

by Raverstead

Lower-cost panels, with an average size of 50″, will form the majority of UltraHD TV panel shipments in Q4’14, say Asian sources. It has been said that vendors will aim TVs made using the …

Hardware and Standards Wrestle in the Marketplace

by Aldo Cugnini

Broadcast & Distribution – Hardware manufacturers and standards developers have often clashed when it comes to inter-compatibility and longevity of solutions. Once a solution takes hold in the marketplace, it can be very difficult to evolve …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Netflix| Standards| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 49

No UltraHD Breakthrough Next Year

by Raverstead

OVAB’s Digital Signage Business Climate Index in the DACH countries shows that UltraHD signage is not expected to reach mainstream adoption next year. The ‘vast majority’ of respondents expected that the technology would have …

Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 47

by Raverstead

The U3477PQU (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 30), from Acer, will be available in the USA from the 8th December. It will cost $900. The B326HK UltraHD monitor (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 44) …