Vol 22 – Issue 36 – Display Daily

HDR TVs To Be In More Than 100 M Homes By 2020

by Milos Pavlovic

David Mercer of Strategy Analytics has said that by 2020, 250 million viewers around the world will be ready to watch HDR content, as the annual sales of ‘HDR-enabled’ sets will be 58 by …

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Ericsson to Acquire Envivio

by Helen Vince

Ericsson has entered into an agreement to acquire Envivio, in a deal valued at $125 million. Ericsson said that the acquisition will strengthen its video compression position, combining its broadcast and contribution expertise with …

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IFA, IBC and Broadcast

by Bob Raikes

Phew! The IFA report and most of this week’s main issue are done and I’ve just got on the train to the airport to fly out for the first IBC event, this evening. There …

Weak Economy Sees TV Sets Plummet

by Tom Allen

Global TV set shipments experienced their steepest decline in five years in Q2’15, says IHS, declining 8% YoY to 48 million units. The result follows a year of annual growth in 2014, and was …

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3IT7 And Onward to the TIME Machine…

by Bob Raikes

After the 3IT panel sessions, there was a socialising event with groups of delegates being allowed to have a look at the TiME (Tomorrow’s immersive Multimedia Experience, we think) 180° immersive environment which is …

3IT6 And 3D, of Course…

by Bob Raikes

The next panel was on 3D and consisted of Josephine Derobe, a stereographer and director, Jacques Verly from the University of Liege and Ludger Pfanz, a professor from HfG Karlsruhe and the director of …

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AR Needs Touch and Short Sessions.

by Bob Raikes

The next panel was on Augmented Reality. Dale Herigstad is CEO of SeeSpace and Clemens Conrad is CEO of Vectorform. Iljaitcsch stayed from the previous panel. Herigstad said that his company, which we reported …

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3IT4 3D and VR Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

by Bob Raikes

The next panel was on VR and the first responder was Angus Cameron who is CEO of Vision3, a developer of 3D movies. There is a lot of buzz about VR systems and there …

3IT3 Panel Looks at UltraHD and HDR

by Bob Raikes

The next panel consisted of regular contributors to our news, Stephan Heimbecher of Sky Deutschland and Roland Vaiclu of Dolby Labs. Heimbecher started saying that Sky has run two plugfests at the centre over …

3IT2 Doctors Still Keen on 3D

by Bob Raikes

After the introductions, there were a number of panel sessions. The first was on the subject of the 3DInMed medical project which looked at topics including the capture and transmission of 3D content for …

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 36

by Tom Allen

While browsing Twitter last night during the Apple iPad Pro launch event, I came across a comic by Joel Watson, from 2012, which nailed the tablet’s launch date – and included some excellent commentary …

3IT1 3IT Celebrates its 3rd Birthday

by Bob Raikes

The 3IT started as a 3D research institute three years ago, but last year changed its name to the Innovation Center for Immersive Imaging Technology, as 3D moved out of fashion. The change meant …

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