April 2016 – At the 2015 NAB, Vnova introduced the Perseus compression solution. At this this years show they were showing off the industry adoption and success of the solution. The product was first introduced as a lossless video compression engine. The current manifestation of the product is a universal data compression and transport technology….
April 2016 – NAB 2016 was the first big public announcement and push for the new combination of Harmonic and their acquisition of Thomson Video Networks. The combined company presented their new unified vision for agile video delivery. This new push leverages the Harmonic expertise in the appliance marketplace and compression for traditional broadcast into…
April 2016 – One of the themes of the 2016 NAB show was the workflows and products for High Dynamic Range content. As content moves to 4K and 8K resolutions, they are also observing the ITU-R Recommendation BT.2020, specification. Known as Rec. 2020, it specifies two resolutions of 3840 × 2160 (“4K”) and 7680 ×…
January 2016 – In a show that was dominated (in square footage) by televisions, now supporting up to 8K images, Dish Network rolled out new platforms to deliver content. Dish showed off their new Hopper 3 with Sling. They also introduced a companion device the HopperGO. The Hopper 3 from Dish is a next generation…
October 2015 – Continuing their push into the combined CPU/GPU designs, AMD released the R Series SOC for embedded applications. The new chip, called the “merlin falcon”, is smaller than previous designs in this family by over 30%. The reduction in area and package size comes from the use of the Excavator architecture for the…
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Hong Jiang from Intel talked about the improvements in the GPU functions that will enable a better user experience for 4k TV. The changes to the graphics engines and functionality are also important for the newest graphics APIs that have fine-grained and direct GPU access and control. The…
August 2015 – At SIGGRAPH 2015, the focus on mobile devices and computers were workstation class machines that are the core of the content creation industry. Unlike consumer applications where data can all be sent up to the cloud for processing and restarting a task due to a crash or bad data is just annoying,…
July 2015 – The next generation of mobile devices and notebooks are moving to a thinner form factor. This thinner body design is the driving force behind the rapid adoption of the new USB type C connector which is reversible plug/ receptacle providing multi-function single cable solution for the USB 3.x interface. The interface is…
June 17, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—A panel looked at the issues associated with multiple screen viewing. Colin Dixon from nScreen Media moderated the panel. [panelists included Mark Adams from Accedo, Chris Cukor from LG Electronics, Will Law from Akamai, and Jim Monroe from Net2TV. Dixon opened with comments about the…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Neil Hunt from Netflix talked about a bifurcation in trends that will affect all aspects of video content. Video is moving towards higher quality; bigger, brighter, and better, while also going to mobile devices, which are smaller, faster, and cheaper. Netflix is adding about100…