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The Online Reporter, Issue The Very Best Coverage of Internet TV - No one else tracks OTT services, broadband, home networking and the proliferation of bandwidth-hungry UHD TVs – and their coming industry-wide impact. Issue 946 September 11-17, 2015 Insider News. Outsider Views. New Apple iPhones Legitimize 4K TOP HEADLINES in a Way Nothing Else Could First Published G.hn Side-by-Side Testing - 4K Naysayers Will Disappear 4K – a resolution of 3840×2160. Apple didn’t Results - Biggest Beneficiaries: Pay TV Makers, stop there. The units have a new 12-megapixel page 2 OTT Services, Broadband & Home sensor with advanced pixel technology and Networking an Apple-developed and made image signal processor that delivers better colors in sharper Viacom Rethinks Its - Biggest Loser: Traditional Linear Pay and more detailed photos. Place in TV TV page 6 The front camera is a 5-megapixel FaceTime Any one that works in the broadband or HD camera with “Retina Flash,” which briefly Amazon Embraces home network industries should rush out and increases the brightness of the screen three- Web Video for Fire TV order an iPhone 6S and 6S Plus on September fold to help brighten selfies. page 9 12 when Apple starts taking pre-orders. The An optical image stabilization feature world’s most widely used cameras are Apple’s helps improve the video quality in low-light Endemol Unveils On- iPhones. The new iPhones can shoot video in situations. The new iPhones also have exposure line Video Platform for 4K. Who wants to shoot in 4K and watch in control, timer mode and face detection. Its Web Video Creators ordinary HD? Apple’s move into 4K legitimizes There’s more. A feature called Live Photos page 10 4K more than any maker of TV sets could ever shoots 12 megapixel photos that are part of a Celeno Teams up With have hoped, even the mighty Samsung. short video clip that captures a few seconds Intel on a STB Design Apple’s new 6S and 6S can shoot video in before and after the shutter button is pressed. continued on page two with Its Super-Fast and Steady Wi-Fi page 11 Apple’s ‘TV Redefined’ Sigma Designs’ Leaves Much to Be G.hn Prime Chips Set Speed Record Desired page 14 - Side-by-Side Tests having to send an installer into the home. Sigma Designs’ home network engineers The adapters would be used to connect STB, have developed new firmware called G.hn bridges, residential gateways, TVs and even as Prime that substantially increases the speeds the devices’ power source. of the company’s G.hn chips. We confirmed The buzz word in the home networking and that by testing the products in the same home broadband industry is “4K” (and/or UHD) where some months ago we had tested G.hn because of the bandwidth that will be need for adapters from Comtrend and Sigma as well as streaming from an OTT service or broadcasting HomePlug adapters from D-Link. from a pay TV channel to multiple devices in Sigma says the new G.hn Prime firmware the home. Expectations are that a year from “provides unmatched performance” on its now, all premium smartphones and tablets existing G.hn CG5300 and CG5200 series will have 4K-capable displays and that 1080p chipsets. The chips are intended for G.hn HD TVs in sizes 42-inches or larger will be powerline products that pay TV services, considered stone age relics. One only has to primarily the telcos, will use to provide flicker- look at the prices that 4K/UHD reached this free videos, including bandwidth intensive 4K past summer and wonder what they’ll be on this videos, on every TV in the home and without year’s Black Friday to know that the financial continued on page two September 11-17, 2015 New Apple: continued from page ONE home networking industry because of 4K increased A feature called 3D Touch detects the amount of force demand for greater bandwidth. when the screen is pressed, Retina HD displays, the For a number of months we have been predicting strongest glass of any smartphone, aerospace-grade that the next major boost to the spread of 4K would aluminum exterior and an Apple’s A9 processor. come when Apple launched an iPhone or iPad that But! The most important new feature is the provides 4K. That has now happened. iPhones’ 4K capability. It will greatly increase sales The biggest losers will be the traditional linear of 4K TV sets. Who wants to shoot in 4K and watch pay TV companies who have been caught with their “Who wants in ordinary HD resolution? Shoppers will find that 4K networks incapable of delivering 4K content. It will to shoot in 4K TV sets are very affordable and buy them. Increased take them years and billions of dollars to get those and watch in sales of 4K-capable TV sets will increase demand for networks ready to deliver 4K content to the home – ordinary HD 4K movies and TV shows. The biggest beneficiary except over an Internet connection, of course. resolution?” of that will be the 4K OTT services, who are today Oh! One more thing! It’s too bad that Apple won’t the world’s largest suppliers of 4K content. And the benefit from the coming surge in sales of 4K TVs it is biggest beneficiaries of that will be the broadband and causing. It still hasn’t launched an Apple 4K TV set. Sigma: continued from page ONE networking problems caused by “real home justification for making and buying 1080p HD TVs is environments that are plagued with interference disappearing just as it did for large standard definition obstacles such as surge protectors and appliances and (SD) TVs. There are no 42-inch or larger SD TVs in the congestion challenges of MDUs.” the stores, are there? Sigma said G.hn Prime uses on-chip acceleration Q and A with Sigma Designs engines and algorithms “to move data at twice the We asked Sigma Designs several questions. speed of the next-closest competitor’s product under The Online Reporter: Will there be in the near TCP protocol which is the dominant delivery protocol future retail adapters with G.hn Prime chops? for today’s streaming content.” Sigma Designs: Yes, it’s in the works Nadav Katsir, VP of the home connectivity The Online Reporter: Is “G.hn Prime” Sigma’s business unit at Sigma Designs, said, “G.hn Prime proprietary extension to the ITU G.hn standard? “Chips running is a unique technology from Sigma Designs that… Sigma Designs: G.hn Prime complies with the G.hn standard. The Prime is a very smart implementation - G.hn Prime can dramatically increase throughput on the current generation of Sigma Designs’ CG5200 solutions. Our a combination of hardware and software. have a major chips running G.hn Prime have a major performance The Online Reporter: Because the Sigma adapters performance edge where it counts, overcoming the limitations for we tested are not retail products, how do we know edge where it achieving high transmission rates in the home. G.hn that the devices don’t exceed FCC limits and gain counts, over- Prime is highly scalable, supporting the largest number performance with extra transmission power? coming the of devices, and the highest number of simultaneous Sigma Designs: Our Power Spectral Density (PSD) limitations for video streams including multiple 4K video services, complies with the HomeGrid PSD mask limits. As a achieving high ensuring an outstanding consumer experience.” side note, Sigma’s G.hn communication frequency transmission The case for a fast, dependable powerline is obvious band is half that of the AV2 version of HomePlug. rates in the — not only does every room in first world homes Hence we also are lower power than AV2. home.” have an electrical outlet, so do most walls in those rooms — especially the wall where the TV is plugged First Published G.hn Side-by-Side Testing Results in. MoCA over coax has long been regarded as the We had also received the retail version of Comtrend’s gold standard for home networking in both speed and G.hn powerline adapters from Comtrend (they are reliability and developers of powerline technologies available from Amazon). They use Marvell’s G.hn have striven to match MoCA’s speed and reliability. chips rather than Sigma Design’s. The pre-production The latest G.hn technology attempts to solve G.hn adapters we received from Sigma Designs are Sigma: continued on page THREE Page 2 ©2015 May not be copied or forwarded by e-mail, posted to a web site, faxed or copied in whole or in part. September 11-17, 2015 Sigma: continued from page TWO for a powerline-based or coax-based Wi-Fi extender manufactured for service providers to test and evaluate. of the sort that Comtrend announced this week. We set up the same test home that we had used in The Sigma Design adapters consistently outperformed July to compare powerline adapters from Comtrend the Comtrend adapters with the exception of one room. and Sigma as well as HomePlug adapters from We asked Sigma about that inconsistency and they did D-Link. There were two differences between these not have enough information to answer the question. tests and the one we conducted in July: Both the Sigma Design and the Comtrend adapters 1. We used jperf v2.0.2 testing software this time clearly outperformed D-Link’s HomePlug adapters in instead of the Atmos software we used in July.
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