Vol 23 – Issue 38 – Page 10

IBC Buzzes

by Milos Pavlovic

IBC saw attendees of 55,796 said the organisers of the event, with more than 1,800 exhibitors. That’s around the same number of visitors as last year and 2014. The organisers put a lot of …

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ViewSonic Updates ViewBoard Displays

by Bob Raikes

ViewSonic has updated some of its large format touch displays. The 55″ (CDE5561T), 65″ (CDE6561T) and 70″ (CDE7061T) ViewBoard models all have FullHD resolution and 20 infrared touch points (up from 10 on previous …

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Vudu Adds HDR10 Support

by Milos Pavlovic

Forbes has claimed an exclusive in finding that the Vudu streaming service is to adopt HDR10 in addition to supporting Dolby Vision for HDR. The service told the publisher that it had no exclusive …

Toppan & E Ink Develop 32″ Flexible Color E-paper

by Milos Pavlovic

Toppan said in a press release that it has developed a 32″ flexible colour electronic paper display in collaboration with E Ink, using E Ink’s Pearl technology and its own Mobius flexible plastic backplane …

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IPTV Shores Up Nordics Pay-TV market

by Yvette Raikes

Generally over Western Europe there has been a rise in pay-TV subscriptions and this is forecast to continue. But IPTV in particular has seen a doubling of its subscriber base and now outnumbers satellite …

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Slimmed-down TV Packages Have Mixed Results

by Yvette Raikes

Almost 70% of 18-14 year olds in the USA, who currently don’t subscribe to pay-TV, say that they would only consider “more affordable channel lineups that fit my viewing tastes”, according to Altman Vilandrie’s …

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Leyard Breaks 1 MM Pixel Pitch

by Bob Raikes

Leyard has announced the 0.9mm LED wall product that it had told us about at the recent IBC event. The new panel is the first time the company has got below 1.00mm pitch and …

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Vivitek Claims 2 Hours Life for LED Projector

by Isaac Oburu

Vivitek has expanded its Qumi Series of pocket projectors with the introduction of the Qumi Q3 Plus, an ultra-portable LED smart projector with Android designed to provide entertainment on the go. The projector offers …

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Christie Phoenix EP OPS Runs Dual Displays

by Milos Pavlovic

Christie announced a new OPS module that allows a second display to be connected to the host display via an HDMI output. The second display can be up to 1920 x 1080 resolution and …

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Fraunhofer Working on Light Fields and Lici

by Isaac Oburu

A couple of years ago, one of the highlights of our visit to IBC was the demonstration of light field capture for video by the Fraunhofer IIS. Since then, the institute has been developing …

UltraHD Forum Updates its Phase 1 Guidelines

by Chris Chinnock

At NAB 2016, the UHD Forum issued a set of guidelines designed to help broadcasters make decisions on the deployment of 4K and HDR services in the near term. At IBC 2016, it announced …

NEC Wireless Presenter Uses HDMI

by Milos Pavlovic

NEC Display Solutions Europe has launched the MultiPresenter Stick MP10RX, a wireless presenting solution for use with NEC’s projectors and large format displays that don’t already have a multipresenting function, but also works with …

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