Although admitting it is “early days” in the consumer life-cycle of 4K viewing, Jim Underwood, Executive VP, Worldwide Digital and Commercial Strategy, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, says its progress has gone beyond the point of wondering whether it can become a reality. Delivering a keynote speech at PEVE Entertainment 2013 in London, he told delegates: […]
Electronics giant Panasonic is to cease R&D and shortly production of its famed plasma displays, reckoned by many to be amongst the best in the business. Instead, Panasonic will switch to OLED developments. Panasonic is not the first high-end manufacturer to admit that it’s tough to maintain a profit margin on the increasingly price-squeezed High […]
Free-to-air instrumental music channel LandscapeHD has launched what it describes as a “revolutionary” new technology for modern television delivery. Designed to avoid prohibitively expensive broadcast costs that inhibit the growth of niche music television channels, the new generation server can deliver a highest quality 1080p television signal (in an 8Mb or 10Mb feed) into any […]
Dolby Laboratories and Royal Philips Electronics in association with CAMERON | PACE Group (CPG) announced at NAB in Las Vegas that they have signed an agreement to integrate the Dolby 3D format into CPG’s 3D video content production workflow and to collaborate on the use of the Dolby 3D format. All parties believe that glasses-free […]
Stung by plunging sales in Japan and declining demand in North America and Western Europe, global television shipments in 2012 fell, marking a major inflection point that will have a lasting impact on the market, according to an IHS iSuppli Worldwide Television Market Tracker Report from the IHS TV Systems Intelligence Service at information and […]
Ericsson has provided Canadian telecommunications carrier Telus with an MPEG-4 AVC HD compression solution for its Optik TV IPTV service. The deployment enables Telus to enhance the consumer experience by providing the best HD video quality possible while observing the government mandate for advertisement loudness control. “Video is such an important part of the at-home […]
HBO tech guru Bob Zitter told the TV Connect conference in London that he believes 3D TV is dead. “We (HBO) never thought that 3D with glasses was ever going to get off the ground,” he said. “Consumers have shown they do not want to wear glasses in the home. 3D with glasses is dead.” […]
LG Electronics is launching the 100 inch Laser TV – a throw projector system which requires just 22 inches of clearance from the wall – in the US next month. The LG Laser TV creates a giant 100-inch class HD 1080p resolution picture. The LG Laser TV will be available in mid-April with a suggested […]
While there’s a sense of growing enthusiasm for 4K/Ultra-HDTV transmissions from equipment vendors, display manufacturers, satellite operators and perhaps even some well-heeled early adopters, some experts are urging caution while almost pleading for various industry elements to pull their fingers out in order not to disappoint the public. Thomas Wrede, SES’ VP/Reception Systems, speaking on […]
The ‘big four’ of top satellite operators at the Washington Satellite 2013 show, through their CEOs, exhibited some considerable differences in their timetables for the introduction of Ultra-HDTV. SES’s Romain Bausch was the most bullish of the quartet, and he said he expected 4K/Ultra HD to make a meaningful market entry starting in 2015 or […]