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Uruguay’s national network goes HD

Television Nacional Uruguay (TNU), the nation’s main public network, has started trialling an HDTV service on its digital terrestrial TV system. The service is expected to go ‘live’ about a month from now in mid-August. The country’s Industry Minister, Roberto Kreimerman, said TNU’s signals will also be available on the nation’s mobile phone systems for […]

July 20, 2012By Chris Forrester

More popular 3D content drives 3D TV market

Growing demand for high-quality audio and video content among viewers, keen desire among television broadcasters to allow more channels in same spectrum and that too at lower costs, and stringent government mandates ordering termination of all analogue TV broadcasts, have been driving increased adoption of digital television, thereby driving the market for 3D TVs, says […]

July 18, 2012

Samsung accuses LG of technology theft

The two are South Korea’s technology giants, but it seems LG was not above a little industrial espionage, so a Seoul court has been told. Samsung has formally accused its flat-panel rival LG of being behind the theft of key OLED display technology. Eleven people, including at least 3 LG executives, have now been indicted […]

July 18, 2012By Chris Forrester

TV still dominant platform to watch Olympics

TechBargains, a deal aggregation website for electronic products, released its Olympics survey results revealing that social media is expected to play a major role during the Summer 2012 London Olympics with 87 per cent of people saying they will partake in social media or text friends about the Olympic events. While only 9 per cent […]

July 17, 2012

Sky News Arabia puts Vizrt at the core of its news graphics

Sky News Arabia, the new 24-hour free-to-air Arabic news channel, launched in May using a sophisticated Vizrt system to deliver its live news graphics. Vizrt is the sole news graphics provider for the Abu Dhabi based channel. This is a departure from the news graphics workflow used by Sky News in the UK, sister channel […]

July 17, 2012

MIT creates ‘glasses free’ 3DTV

Engineers at the MIT Labs have come up with another ‘glasses-free’ 3DTV system. Reported by 3D Focus, the MIT Labs research paper uses several layers of liquid crystal displays illuminated by a uniform backlight. However, for a convincing effect, the panels need to refresh at a speed of 360 times per second. The current highest […]

July 16, 2012By Chris Forrester

DVB approves Phase 2a 3DTV spec, DVB-S2 wideband

DVB has announced that at the 71st Meeting of the Steering Board, Phase 2a of the DVB-3DTV specification was approved. The specification will be submitted immediately to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation. An amended DVB-3DTV BlueBook is to be published to reflect the addition to the specification. The Phase 2a system, […]

July 13, 2012

EBU bids farewell to SD with Olympics

At the London 2012 Olympic Games the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will bid farewell to standard definition for all major sports events. The EBU has made a considerable long-term investment in its Eurovision satellite and fibre network, ensuring that more than 70 EBU Members holding rights can access all 12 HD multilateral signals. As part […]

July 13, 2012

France Télévisions 3D Olympics channel

France Télévisions has confirmed it will broadcast the 2012 London Olympics in 3D. France Televisions will launch a channel devoted to 3D transmissions via Orange TV. The service, branded francetvsport 3D, will have daily coverage of the Olympic games in 3D. In total, over 200 hours of 3D footage will be broadcast. The channel 333 […]

July 12, 2012

TV market to decline, 3D to grow

Shipments of LCD TVs are now expected to grow at a slower pace in 2012 than 2011, according to the latest Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report issued by global market research and consulting firm NPD DisplaySearch. In addition, the overall TV market is expected to decline this year, even as segments such as […]

July 11, 2012