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Arte Conducting HDR Tests

by Bob Raikes

SES held a series of Tech Talks in its meeting room suite up in the balcony of Hall 1. These are usually interesting and the one we went to was no exception. The topic …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Philips| SES| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Creatives Want More – of Everything!

by Bob Raikes

Christie had a big screen demonstration that compared Xenon-based projection with a full laser unit. Unfortunately, because of a schedule clash, we didn’t get to see the different demonstration, but got into the session …

Tags:6p Laser| Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Movies & Content| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Sony Moves from OLED for Monitoring

by Bob Raikes

Sony held its usual press event as the first of the show itself on its booth. I remember when the firm switched from projection to LCD as the main display for the event, but …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Cameras| Dual Panel LCDs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| sony| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 36

LG Display Investment in Nanosys is Confirmed

by Bob Raikes

We reported recently that LG had invested in QD developer and maker, Nanosys. We confirmed this as LG Display recently made the following statement in an SEC filing (in August). “In May 2018, we …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 37

The War for Eyeballs Continues

by Bob Raikes

Our issues are a bit slimmer this week, again, as we were very involved with the IBC show, which went over the weekend. Our IBC show report will be out in the middle of …

Tags:Editorial| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| ray tracing| TV Viewing| Vol 25 - Issue 36

European Monitor Market is Positive

by Bob Raikes

The European desktop monitor market was positive in Q2 of 2018, with growth of 8.5% – producing the best volume result for seven years in that quarter according to Meko’s DisplayCast market research service. …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Samsung Launches LED TVs in India

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has launched a new range of modular LED TV tiles in India called “Active LED” or alternatively, “LED for Home”. The displays are being supplied in standard sizes of 110″, 130″ (both FullHD), …

Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| LED| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Technicolor Widens HDR Support

by Bob Raikes

Although HLG, HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision (along with Sony’s S-Log for content creators) are widely reported as the current HDR technologies, there is another scheme, developed and promoted by Technicolor and Philips and …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Philips| Technicolor| Vol 25 - Issue 36

SES Downgrades Dinner to Breakfast

by Bob Raikes

SES has traditionally held a press event and dinner on the evening before IBC but this year had a more informal event at breakfast. We went along. Steve Collar has been the CEO and …

Tags:Aviation| IBC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Maritime| Networks| Satellite| SES| Transport| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Cryptera and Zytronic Introduce Secure PIN Entry Through Large Format Touch Screens

by Bob Raikes

Zytronic, which makes Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT and MPCT) touch sensors announced that a new version of its technology is now available to support secure PIN entry applications via their development partner, Cryptera. Zytronic …

Tags:ATMs| Large Display Monitor| Pcap (Procap)| Security| Touch Displays| Vol 25 - Issue 36

Philips Monitor is for Professionals, but has HDR600

by Bob Raikes

Philips has a new monitor, the 32″ Brilliance 328P6VUBREB, which has UltraHD resolution and conforming to HDR600. The VA LCD monitor also has USB Type-C, dual HDMI 2.0 ports, DisplayPort 1.4 and USB 3.1 …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 36

LDM Product Roundup Vol 25 #36

by Bob Raikes

Asus has announced its GeForce RTX 2070 graphics boards, which support the new Turing GPUs. There are seven cards. The ROG Strix has three versions, an overclocked one, an ‘Advanced’ one and a regular …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| Broadcast| Desktop Monitors| DLP Projectors| Game Playing| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Panasonic| sony| Touch Displays| UltraHD| ViewSonic| Vol 25 - Issue 36