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NAB 2018 Introduction

by Chris Chinnock

NAB 2018 was as busy as usual (about 100K attendees), but there was little new from the display perspective. Clearly, 8K continues to be a topic of interest with an 8K displays from Sony, …

TS08The Future of Cinema Keynote

by Chris Chinnock

Chris Buchanan, Director of Business Development from Samsung Electronics Cinema group gave the keynote presentation on Sunday morning. While he is very optimistic about the future, he started his presentation by first addressing some …

Tags:Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Technology Summit on Cinema 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 15

TS07 Is VR Location-Based Entertainment Viable?

by Chris Chinnock

This session consisted of a panel moderated by Peter Lude of Mission Rock Digital. Speakers included Nancy Bennett of Two Bit Circus, Books Brown of Starbreeze Studios and Alexis Macklin of Greenlight Insights. Macklin …

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TS06 Immersive Capture Moving Toward Light Field Era

by Chris Chinnock

In the “Capturing Immersive Images” session, Pete Lude from Mission Rock Digital gave an overview of some of the techniques. This included lidar scanning, time of flight sensors, structured light capture and plenoptic cameras. …

TS05 Dolby Provides Data on Perception of Judder in HDR

by Chris Chinnock

Alex Chapiro from Dolby Laboratories presented some new data from a high frame rate (HFR) study they recently conducted. He said that the term “judder” is typically used to describe several artifacts that occur …

TS04 Expensive HDR Mastering Monitors are Slowing Adoption

by Chris Chinnock

Bill Baggelar from Sony Pictures Entertainment began his presentation with the question: Do we need EDR or HDR for cinema? He defined EDR as typical of what IMax or Dolby Cinema can produce today …

TS03 The Future of Cinema is Holographic

by Chris Chinnock

John Karafin from Light Field Labs gave a similar presentation to these we have seen and reported on previously. It highlighted some examples of three classes of displays: volumetric; holographic and fauxlographic (display architectures …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Technology Summit on Cinema 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 15

TS02 Does RGBW and Sub-pixel Rendering Work for HDR Cinema?

by Chris Chinnock

Gary Feather of Nanolumens spoke next and provided an overview of the wide performance capabilities of LED direct view displays along with their diverse use in terms of applications. He explained that LED screens …

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TS01 Pixel Representation Key First Step for HDR Cinema

by Chris Chinnock

The Technology Summit on Cinema event kicked off with the above titled session. Ronan Boitard from Barco was first to speak. He is actually from the MTT Innovation team that has been working on …

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Technology Summit on Cinema Report Introduction

by Chris Chinnock

The Technology Summit on Cinema is an annual event hosted by NAB and produced by SMPTE, takes place on the Saturday and Sunday before NAB. The focus on cinema is designed to be sure …

Tags:Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Technology Summit on Cinema 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 15

Sony Impresses with 8K CLED Display

by Chris Chinnock

In its NAB opening press conference, the media were able to get a full briefing on all of Sony’s new equipment for broadcast and cinema production. Most of the event was focused on cameras …

Google Releases “Welcome to Light Fields” for Certain VR Headsets

by Chris Chinnock

Google has been investing quite a lot into VR technologies. The latest release is what Senior Research, Paul Debevec at Google VR calls “Welcome to Light Fields”. It is a free app designed to …

Tags:Google| Light Field Cameras| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 12