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Barco Shows New F80 and LED Projectors at I/ITSEC 2017

by Chris Chinnock

Barco used I/ITSEC 2017 to launch the new F80 series of projectors. It joins the F70 and F90 versions with the F80 essentially the entry level model ideally suited to applications such as virtual …

Barco’s AudioCue is Really Nice Innovation for Training and Simulation

by Chris Chinnock

One of the new technologies being showcased by Barco at I/ITSEC 2017 was what they called “AudioCue.” This was demonstrated with 20 audiokinetic speakers surrounding the sweet spot on a large 3D Perception screen …

Tags:3D Object-based Audio| Barco| I/ITSEC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Highlights from I/ITSEC 2017

by Chris Chinnock

The Interservice/ Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training conference. Held near the beginning of December in Orlando, Florida, USA, I/ITSEC consists of peer-reviewed paper presentations, …

News Appetizers for Thanksgiving

by Chris Chinnock

Yes, it is Thanksgiving tomorrow in the U.S. In thinking about a topic to cover for the day before Thanksgiving, I reviewed some recent news for ideas. Rather than expand on one of the …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| MicroLED| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Is Improved Scaling the Key to the 8K Content Void?

by Chris Chinnock

I have been thinking more about 8K recently. Many will agree that the increase from 4K to 8K pixels will be of marginal benefit for those watching TVs at standard distances on 65” TVs. …

Tags:Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Upscaling| Vol 24 - Issue 43

VR Solution for Reviewing Multi-Screen Theatrical Configurations Described

by Chris Chinnock

Kyunghan Lee from KAI Inc. and Sungmin Cho from the Korean Film Council described a VR project they are working on to model multi-screen theatrical configurations. They started by noting two examples: the Barco …

TI Describes Method to Achieve Variable Frame Rates in Cinemas

by Chris Chinnock

Tim Ryan from TI’s DLP Cinema group gave a presentation on the way DLP cinema projectors can offer variable frame rates. The projectors can run at various frame rates already, but require time to …

Dolby Describes Theater Contrast Model and Measurement Data

by Chris Chinnock

Marty Richards of Dolby Laboratories presented a model for evaluating the actual contrast in a theater and then validated this model by showing data from several Dolby Vision theaters. The effort is similar to …

8K Production using HLG

by Chris Chinnock

Yuji Nagata from NHK gave a presentation describing an 8K HDR broadcast workflow based on HLG. While trial broadcast of 8K content started in August of 2017 in Japan, this will expand to regular …

Storytelling in 8K?

by Chris Chinnock

Cinematographer, Pierre H Routhier gave a presentation on storytelling in 8K. He wondered, for example, if there is more value from the filmmaker’s point of view in having more spatial resolution as opposed to …

8K-Tico Codec for Miniaturized and Simplified UHDTV Production Systems

by Chris Chinnock

Masayuki Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Sakiyama, Takayuki Yamashita of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) said that they have developed a Tico (SMPTE RDD35:2016) codec for 8K ultrahigh-definition TV (8K-UHDTV) production. The codec works at a compression rate …

Tags:Encoders| Large Display Monitor| NHK| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41

An 8K Full Resolution 60-Hz/120-Hz Camera System

by Chris Chinnock

Tomohiro Nakamura from NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories described their new 8K portable camera. NHK has already developed a conventional 3-chip 8K broadcast camera, but it very large and expensive, so they developed …