Vol 22 – Issue 37 – Page 3

Mediatek Dismisses Speculation

by Tom Allen

The Chinese-language Liberty Times claimed that Mediatek was aiming to acquire Parade Technologies, earlier this month. Mediatek has now dismissed the article in a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange.

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2016 AIO PC Production Dominated by Quanta

by Tom Allen

Quanta has received more than 70% of HP’s AIO PC orders for 2016, say sources in the Asian supply chain. The company also produces many of Apple’s iMacs. Meanwhile, Dell’s AIO PC orders are …

Sharp to Release World’s First 8k TV – Next Month

by Tom Allen

Sharp will begin selling an 8k TV in October this year – the first-such model to be made commercially available. Known as the LV-85001, the unit will be an 85″ set costing ¥15.2 million …

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Renesas and Luxoft Work together in the Automotive Field

by Norbert Hildebrand

Earlier this year, Renesas announced their RH850 microcontroller series aimed at automotive applications. The system on the chip supports instrument clusters and also includes a warp engine for a head-up display (HUD). Now Luxoft …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Renesas| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Dolby Looking Good for Movies

by Bob Raikes

Dolby was, of course, demonstrating lots of Dolby Vision content. There are now two movies (Tomorrowland and Inside Out) that have been released and shown in Dolby Vision, although there are only a few …

Fraunhofer Shows Lici in KVMs

by Bob Raikes

Various Fraunhofer groups had a shared booth in Hall 8. We talked to the team behind the Lici lightweight codec. This (like Intopix and Displaystream) codec has very low latency (around two lines), doesn’t …

Eutelsat Says Viewers Ready for UHD Bouquets

by Bob Raikes

We met with Eutelsat, the third largest global satellite operator behind Intelsat and SES. The main topic was, of course, UltraHD. The firm believes that there is a “certain maturity” in standardisation and pointed …

HD+ Comes to Hisense TVs

by Tom Allen

HD+, the German HDTV platform, has made its HD+ Replay catch-up portal available on Hisense’s TV sets. Before this, HD+ Replay was only available on HD+’s own satellite receivers, and as an app on …

Tags:HD+ (Germany)| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Ericsson Prefers HDR to UltraHD for “More Bang per Bit”

by Bob Raikes

We met up with Matthew Goldman, the Senior VP Technology at Ericsson and had a good chat about HDR and the issues. We also recorded an interview with him, look here for updates when …

Lenovo Boosts Mobile Workstations

by Bob Raikes

This is Lenovo’s integrated colorimeterWe hadn’t spotted Lenovo at IBC before, but were happy to catch up to look at its workstation. There was no real monitor news, although the company said that the …

Irdeto Offering Smart DRM

by Bob Raikes

We haven’t previously reported on Irdeto, but something their PR company told us must have been persuasive and we met with Richard Scott, SVP Sales & Marketing from the company this time. The firm …

Sigma Boosts G.Hn & Highlights UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Sigma Designs was in a meeting room above Hall 1 and we got the latest update from them. The first news was about a new variation on G.Hn which Sigma calls “G.Hn Prime” which …