Vol 25 – Issue 36 – Display Daily

IBC Still Beats IFA for Interesting Displays

by Bob Raikes

So, the end of another IBC. It’s always an interesting show and, even for display technology, it is often more interesting than IFA which takes place just before it. This year, there was a …

UltraHD Forum is Positive on Progress

by Bob Raikes

The UltraHD Forum was at the event to talk about the developments in UltraHD and the development of the Phase B recommendations. We spoke to Ian Nock of Fairmile West, which works with the …

Tivo Looking for Metadata to Feed AI Engines

by Bob Raikes

We met up with Tivo and had a wide ranging chat about the impact of IP technologies. However, we also got an update on Tivo’s developments which continue to revolve around ‘amplifying value’ and …

Tags:Big Data/AI| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Tivo| Vol 25 - Issue 36

8K, HDR and LED Drones in Future Zones

by Bob Raikes

We kept our visit to the Future Zone until the end of one of our last days at the show as a reward for slogging around the rest of the show! Of course, NHK …

Telechips Android TV SoC is Low Power

by Bob Raikes

We’ve mentioned Telechips a few times over recent years, but IBC was the first time that we had met with the company. The firm, which is a fabless chip company based in Korea, had …

Synaptics Exploits Marvell SoCs at the Edge

by Bob Raikes

Meeting only several times a year, it can be hard to keep up with Synaptics which started out with touch pads and then bought the display driver business from Renesas. That meant more display …

HHI Explains 360 degree Video Capture

by Bob Raikes

Planning to meet someone, we dropped into a second session at the IBC conference, after the Immersive Media session (Immersive Media at IBC). It turned out to be quite an interesting session that followed …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Ruwido Extends TicTacTile Approach

by Bob Raikes

Ruwido of Salzburg was at the show in its usual immaculate booth and with the very established team that the company has had for a number of years. We spoke first to Regina Berghaupt …

Immersive Media at IBC

by Bob Raikes

Rob Koenen, VP of the VR Industry Forum gave a talk about immersive media and we had gone along to hear about lightfields. Unfortunately, the event over-ran and we had another commitment, so we …

Ikegami Addresses Entry Level and ToneMaps HDR to SDR!

by Bob Raikes

Ikegami was showing a range of UltraHD cameras and monitors. There were also two new entry level monitors in 31″ and 17″. The larger one has 4096 x 2160 resolution with 350 cd/m² of …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Lilliput Adds 12G SDI Support

by Bob Raikes

Lilliput is a supplier of good value monitors for broadcast and content capture applications. A big story for the company was a range of 12G SDI monitors in 15.6″ (BM150-12G), 23″ (MN230-12G) and 28″ …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Field Monitors| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 36

JVC Extends to DCI-4K

by Bob Raikes

JVC had a couple of new broadcast monitors although we had some language challenges in getting details. The new monitors are the DT-G27, a 27″ unit and DT-U31. The DT-U31 is an UltraHD alternative …