2016 was a good year for TV sets sales in France, with 6.5 million units sold. Boosted by the Euro 2016 football tournament, sales jumped by 1.4 million compared to 2015, according to figures released by GfK. Sales will decrease in 2017 with 5.3 million sold units, predicts GfK – with two thirds of sales […]
France’s Canal+ Group is to broadcast a match in Ultra HD from the country’s leading football league – Ligue 1 – from the end of January at 21hrs and every Sunday thereafter. The first such fixture is PSG-Monaco on January 29. Canal+ has decided to launch production of matches in Ligue 1 in collaboration with […]
Television displays are going to get brighter, according to Dolby Labs VP/Technology Patrick Griffis. Speaking at a CES panel, Griffis suggested that the next battleground in display technology will be over brightness. Today’s high-end Ultra-HD displays generally handle up to 1000 ‘Nits’. A ‘nit’ (from the Latin word nitere, to shine) is a photometric unit […]
US entertainment trade body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group has released its year-end 2016 Home Entertainment Report compiled by DEG members, tracking sources and retail input. Preliminary figures suggest
LG Electronics is introducing the first ATSC 3.0-enabled Ultra HD TVs to support the US-wide deployment of the next-gen TV broadcast standard in South Korea. Starting spring 2017 – in advance of the 2018 Winter Olympics – new 2017 models of LG 4K Ultra HD TVs and large-screen LG smart TVs sold in Korea will […]
LG Electronics and Dolby Laboratories have unveiled the LG UP970 Ultra HD Blu-ray player, LG’s first 4K Blu-ray player which will support Dolby Vision high-dynamic -range (HDR) imaging. Dolby Vision capability for the UP970 will be available through a software update scheduled for later this year. The UP970 also offers enhanced dual format HDR compatibility […]
Dolby Laboratories and LG Electronics have confirmed that LG 2017 OLED TVs will support Dolby Vision HDR technology and Dolby Atmos breakthrough audio in a new combined home entertainment experience. For the first time, consumers can experience content with both cutting-edge imaging and state-of-the-art sound technology through one product. LG’s 2017 OLED line-up builds on […]
Samsung Electronics is in talks with LG Display about a potential liquid crystal display (LCD) panel supply deal for televisions, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported. “There are no specifics decided yet but the two companies are deliberating on the matter carefully and seriously,” Kim Hyun-suk, head of Samsung’s TV business, was quoted as saying […]
The Rohde & Schwarz R&S VTC/VTE/VTS video tester family is an innovative solution for testing the performance and interoperability of future generations of HDR/HLG-capable video consumer electronics. It is based on the recently introduced flexible T&M module for HDMI and HDR tests. The new module offers generator and analyzer functionality for data rates up to […]
Employing what it says is the most advanced colour-enhancing LCD panel technology to date, LG Electronics’ (models SJ9500, SJ8500 and SJ8000) featuring Nano Cell technology are vaunted to take LCD TV viewing to a whole new level at CES 2017 opening this week in Las Vegas The third-generation LG Super UHD TV lineup featuring Nano […]