Vol 24 – Issue 15 – Page 4

Medals for E-sports 2022 Asian Games

by Bob Raikes

The Olympic Council of Asia said that E-sports will be included in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, after appearing as a demonstration sport in the 2018 Asian games in Jakarta, Indonesia. The …

Selectronic Boosts Brightness and adds Cloud to ESLs

by Bob Raikes

Selectronic of the UK has agreed to combine its shelf edge labels with the cloud-based platform from SignStix. “We’ve been able to adapt the SignStix player software to enable up to 7 individual shelf-edge …

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Cinematography, HDR and Waveform Monitors

by Matthew Brennesholtz

A lot of the coverage of High Dynamic Range (HDR) for both the cinema and home TV has focused on one of two things: Standards for HDR content. Much of the focus here has …

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Beamr Updates its HEVC Encoding Technology

by Bob Raikes

Beamr Imaging said that it has developed a content-adaptive HEVC software encoder, Beamr 5x that is said to produce HEVC video streams that are 50% smaller than the previous version, Beamr 5. The company …

Spin Digital Plans 8KP120 at NAB

by Bob Raikes

Spin Digital of Berlin, Germany, said that it would show a new HEVC/H.265 video player and SDK at NAB that supports decoding up to 8KP120 formats with 4:2:2, 4:4:4 and RGB colour up to …

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360º Drone Has Five Mile Range

by Bob Raikes

We don’t normally cover drones – we could probably fill the newsletter every week with stories – but 360 Designs has created a new system using a Matrice 600 Pro drone combined with a …

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Vienna Gets LED Totem

by Bob Raikes

EpaMedia of Austria has installed a three-sided LED tower of 1.5 x 4.5 m and with a total area of 21 m² in an installation that is 8 metres high and weighs six tonnes. …

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Shakespeare’s The Tempest is Using Virtual Characters

by Alan Spencer

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) will be putting on a new production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” using video mapping to bring a virtual character to the stage in London this year. In the production, …

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Could Epistar Start MicroLED Production in 2017?

by Bob Raikes

Epistar is planning to start making microLED chips at about 100 micron size in the second half of 2017 and to be used in large displays according to a report from Digitimes. The bloq …

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Netflix Misses Subscriber Target

by Alan Spencer

Netflix has released its latest subscriber figures for the first quarter of this year. The US subscriber base grew by 1.42 million with international subscribers growing by 3.53 million. Netfix’s projections were for a …

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Now There are Four… as ZTE Pushes Smartphones in USA

by Steve Sechrist

Strategy Analytics updated its smartphone US market tracking, reporting strong growth for smartphones from the China-based ZTE brand. The company is now in fourth place in the USA market, edging out domestic Chinese competitor, …

LightSpace 3D Volumetric Displays Are Back

by Arthur Berman

Several years ago, LightSpace Technologies Inc. (Riga, Latvia, Twinsburg, OH and San Jose, CA) offered a 3D volumetric display product. The product was not successful and the company went out of business. The latest …

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