Vol 22 – Issue 37 – Display Daily

The Dust Settles on IFA & IBC

by Bob Raikes

Once again, I’m writing this editorial with a sense of relief. After twelve days at trade shows in the last seventeen, the words are very nearly finished and our IBC report will be published …

Kopin Announces Smartglasses for the Cycling Athlette

by Norbert Hildebrand

Kopin has announced a new smartglass device under the Solo brand name. The device is aimed at the sports market and is designed especially for bicyclists. Solo is designed by Kopin to compete with …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Dolby Explains HDR

by Bob Raikes

Dolby gave a talk as one of the SES seminars at the event. Arnd Paulsen of Dolby started by talking about human vision and its capabilities. The aim is to deliver content that matches …

Hollywood Excited by HDR & WCG and “The sparkle in actors’ eyes”

by Bob Raikes

Unfortunately the joys of torrential rain and Monday morning Amsterdam traffic meant that we missed the very beginning of the Pixar/ILM keynote. The discussion when we sneaked in was about the use of different …

DVB Says HDR Will be in EU in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Helmut Stein opened the annual DVB IBC press event. Phil Laven, the DVB Chairman, was the first speaker. Laven started by talking about HEVC – he said that without it, UltraHD would not be …

What will Apple Do Next?

by Ken Werner

Whenever I hear this question, my curmudgeonly inclination is to answer, “Who cares?” Perhaps a better question is “What revolutionary new product would allow Apple to continue earning profit margins far larger than the …

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AirTies Teases us With “Same Old Stuff”

by Bob Raikes

We met with Turkey-based Wi-fi specialist AirTies, in particular CEO Bülent Çelebi, who had a very nice bottle of chilled white wine on his table just as the exhibition was winding down on Sunday …

Tags:IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37| Wi-Fi

HiSilicon Looking to the High End

by Bob Raikes

HiSilicon is a company that we have not seen at IBC before. The company has been making a lot more noise recently and we visited after spotting that it had become a Dolby Vision …

Ruwido Highlights “Organic Haptic” Experience

by Bob Raikes

We caught up with Ferdinand Maier of Salzburg-based Ruwido, which makes high quality remote controls and software for the STB user interfaces to go with them. First we looked at one of the regular …

Darbee Enhances Optoma Imagery

by Tom Allen

We heard about a DLP projector with a new image enhancement system from Optoma at IFA this year (IFA 2015 Roundup) – and it has now been launched. The HD28DSE (Darbee Special Edition) is …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| Vol 22 - Issue 37

EBU Looks at HFR & HDR

by Bob Raikes

The EBU was showing various demonstrations and we looked at the BBC/NHK hybrid log demo, which the EBU is positive about, and also at a demonstration of high frame rates – material shot at …

TVLogic Prepares Monitors for NAB

by Bob Raikes

TVLogic usually has some new monitors to show and this event was no exception. First we looked at a new 17″ FullHD monitor that is designed for checking 4K content and can downscale 12G …