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Planetcast to showcase ‘Cloud.X Turbo’ at NAB 2020
MUMBAI: At NAB 2020, Planetcast will showcase its latest and most powerful cloud platform ‘Cloud.X Turbo’. The event will take place from 18-22 April at Las Vegas Convention Center. As a part of the live demo, Planetcast will highlight the latest technological advancement in its cloud platform. Cloud.X Turbo has been successfully deployed for reputed global broadcasters and is garnering positive customer reviews. Cloud.X Turbo offers immense flexibility to broadcasters as they can make critical changes at the operations level, which is a great power to have. It has an excellent capability to integrate legacy platforms on any third party playout solution to provide a super high quality and delivery.
The new wave of technology is sports broadcasting
The company will also showcase it latest sports broadcasting media asset management software Media.X sports which is capable of handling complex workflows of sports broadcasters. Media.X sports is equipped to handle large volumes of content and operated on direct to customer model. Online viewership is rising rapidly for sporting events and our latest product can deliver the linear streams to online platforms in a highly secure and efficient manner.
Content delivery over IP
At the event, it will reveal the latest version of its IP delivery solution ‘Recaster’. The indigenously developed proprietary technology developed by Planetcast can delivery your content from anywhere to anywhere in any format. Broadcasters can create their own content delivery network completely managed by Planetcast. Recaster is a highly affordable and reliable delivery mechanism for the broadcast world. Recaster is also suitable for live sports and other live events which involves picking and dropping of signals or a group of signals from event location to MCR for live distribution.
B2B online marketplace for content related services
Making content related services like editing, dubbing, subtitling, content enrichment, translation etc a completely online experience is the vision behind our latest offering ‘Planetshare’. Planetshare offers complex content related services online, just like shopping from ecommerce website. Planetshare is all set to change the way content is treated around the globe. At NAB 2020, visitors will get world exclusive preview of Planetshare.
Also on the show
Planetcast, a global leader in digital broadcast technologies offers technology led managed broadcast services. Planetcast operated one of the largest Teleport in this part of the world uplinks 280+ television channels from its premises. Planetcast manages playout for reputed Indian and
Global broadcasters by engaging its latest cloud technologies.
Planetcast has recently entered into a long term service provisioning arrangement with Intelsat for Inflight and maritime communication services in India to provide uninterrupted internet connectivity to cruise ships and airplanes while sailing in Indian waters or flying in Indian airspace respectively.
SEOUL: In the eternal battle between gamers demanding lightning-fast refresh rates and professionals craving pixel-perfect clarity, LG Display reckons it has found détente. The South Korean display titan is unveiling the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor panel that marries an RGB stripe structure with a blistering 240Hz refresh rate—a combination previously thought incompatible, like oil and water or fashion and function.
The breakthrough lies in how the pixels are arranged. RGB stripe structure lines up red, green and blue subpixels in neat rows, banishing the colour bleeding and fringing that plague lesser screens when you park your nose close to the display. It is the difference between reading crisp text and squinting at a rainbow-tinged mess. OLED panels using this method existed before, but they topped out at a sluggish 60Hz—fine for spreadsheets, useless for fragging opponents in first-person shooters.
LG Display’s engineering wizardry changes the game. By cranking the refresh rate to 240Hz whilst maintaining that pristine RGB stripe layout, the company has produced a panel that works equally well for colour-critical design work and twitchy gaming sessions. Better still, the panel incorporates Dynamic Frequency & Resolution technology, letting users toggle between ultra-high-definition at 240Hz and full-HD at a frankly ludicrous 480Hz. That is fast enough to make your eyeballs sweat.
The specs are suitably impressive: 160 pixels per inch for exceptional detail, optimised performance for Windows and font-rendering engines, and colour accuracy that should please the Photoshop brigade. LG Display achieved this by boosting the aperture ratio—the percentage of each pixel that actually emits light—and applying what it coyly describes as “various new technologies.” Translation: years of R&D and probably some sleepless nights.
Existing high-end gaming OLED monitors have relied on RGWB structures (which add a white subpixel) or triangular RGB arrangements. Both work, but neither delivers the sharpness that professionals demand. LG Display’s new stripe pattern is tailored specifically for monitor use, a recognition that staring at a screen from two feet away demands different engineering than watching telly from across the room.
The company is betting big on this technology, targeting the high-end monitor market where it already commands roughly 30 per cent of global OLED panel production. Among gaming OLED panels in mass production, LG Display claims world-leading specs across refresh rate, response time and resolution—a trifecta that sounds like marketing bluster until you check the numbers.
“Technology is the foundation of leadership in the rapidly growing OLED monitor market,” says LG Display head of the large display business unit Lee Hyun-woo. He promises to keep pushing “differentiated technologies compared to competitors”—corporate-speak for staying ahead of Chinese rivals snapping at LG’s heels.
The new panel will debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where LG Display plans to woo customers and expand its lineup. Initial rollout targets high-end gaming and professional monitors, the sweet spot where people actually pay premiums for superior screens rather than settling for whatever came with their laptop.
Whether this technology reshapes the monitor market or remains a niche luxury depends on two things: pricing and production scale. But for now, LG Display has pulled off something rare—a genuine technical leap that solves a real problem. Gamers get their speed, designers get their clarity, and LG gets bragging rights. In the cutthroat world of display tech, that counts as a win.
