Vol 24 – Issue 13 – Page 7

Uldage Calls for Patents Essential to 4K/8K for IPTV and CATV

by Alan Spencer

Earlier this month, Uldage called for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K TV broadcasting, applicable to IPTV and CATV, in order to setup a license programme. Uldage (United License for the Digital Age), …

NTV-Plus Increases Coverage with Two Eutelsat Satellites

by Alan Spencer

Russia’s NTV-Plus pay-TV platform, has agreed contracts for two additional satellites with Eutelsat Communications. Following the launch of new services earlier this month, NTV-Plus now has full coverage across the Russian Federation. The expansion …

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Roku Gives TV Advertisers Audience Guarantees

by Alan Spencer

Roku can now give audience guarantees to TV advertisers, so that marketers can now measure campaigns using detailed demographic metrics, comparable to linear TV with Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings. With the addition of demographic …

Samsung’s 3K OLED’s Commanding Lead over Mobile LCDs

by Steve Sechrist

In the latest instalment of a seven year run at evaluating mobile displays for the smartphone market, DisplayMate Labs principal, Dr. Ray Soneira, said that Samsung’s 3K pixel ( 2960 x 1440 ) mobile …

Polymer TADF Emitters are Under Development

by Arthur Berman

Researchers from the Technical University in Dresden (Dresden, Germany) have developed a new method to produce polymer Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) emitting molecules. The new materials exhibit quantum yields substantially higher than previous …

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Magewell to Launch 4K USB Video Capture Devices at NAB Show

by Bob Raikes

A company called Magewell said that it has a new version of its USB video ingest converter that it will show at NAB and which can support resolutions up to DCI 4K (4096 x …

Japan On Track for 50% of Homes to Have 4K TV by 2020

by Alan Spencer

According to Broadband TV News, Japan is likely to meet its target of UHD TV subscriptions by 2020, according to Suga Masayuki, the deputy director of Japan’s ministry of internal affairs and communications. Japan …

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V-Nova Updates its Codec to V2

by Bob Raikes

It’s two years since V-Nova, based in the UK, made a splash with its new Perseus codec a couple of years ago. As well as promising high quality at very low bit rates, the …

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April Fool’s DOOH Campaign Run by Hotels.Com

by Alan Spencer

As part of an April Fool’s Day campaign, Hotels.com used Clear Channel’s entire UK digital estate last Saturday, and launched a fictitious range of hotel-scented perfumes. The perfumes included, ‘Touche de Fresh Sheets’, ‘Essence …

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Netflix Lobby has 13K Resolution LED Display

by Bob Raikes

D3 of the US has released a case study of an 80′ (24.4m) wide LED-based video wall with 13K resolution built for Netflix in Los Angeles. There is also a 110 piece sculpture that …

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Imagination Hit by Apple Decision

by Bob Raikes

UK technology developer, Imagination Technologies, had a bad week as it had to announce that Apple had said that it would not use the Imagination ip in its products from 2019. Imagination has been …

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BBC Online Audience Figures Lower Due to Netflix

by Alan Spencer

Viewing numbers for BBC’s online services are suffering due to Netflix. Nine years after launch, the iPlayer is used weekly by 13% of all adults in the UK, the same as for Netflix. For …