The year of OLED, finally?

I don’t think that many people will qualify 2020 as a “great year”… I wrote a book 7 years ago titled “2020: The end of television” where I was foreseeing traditional television loosing it’s dominant media position by this year… However, I didn’t foresee that 2020 would be “The end of life as we known…

The “New” Grass Valley: Localized Content

At the press event of the “new: Grass Valley yesterday, they did formally announced that the new merged unit of Belden combining Miranda and Grass Valley will be called Grass Valley. They will however keep the Miranda purple and elliptical logo. The new Grass Valley president Marco Lopez (coming from the Miranda unit) did clarify…

NAB 2014: 4K, HEVC and Internet

The real NAB Show began this morning in Las Vegas by a beautiful sunny day. The “real” because that was the first morning of the exhibit. The conference program began on Saturday but for me, the main interest of NAB is the exhibit as the conference program seems to always be less interesting than others…

NAB 2012 Sunday: Press events marathon

“Press events” remains a tradition at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention. It’s not a place where you actually learn a lot. Today with the Internet, it’s easy enough to get all the PR material (press releases, brochures, video) and know all about the announcements. In the past, when communication was harder, it was…