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SMPTE/SID Meeting Discusses HDR, WCG and LED Signage

by Chris Chinnock

An evening meeting hosted by SMPTE and SID was held at Columbia University on February 2nd. Speaking were Gary Mandle of Sony Electronics, Norm Hurst of SRI International and Howard Witherspoon of DesignLED. Below …

Tags:Digital Signage| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 05| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Ostendo Develops First Vertically Integrated RGB LED

by Chris Chinnock

Most Daily Monitor readers know Ostendo Technologies as the company that developed LED-based light field displays with significant support from the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL). That effort has not received additional funding from …

Tags:MicroLED| Novel Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Sony Mobile Projector Suffers from Speckle

by Chris Chinnock

Sony asked if I wanted to review their MP-CL1A mobile projector so I said yes. It is based on the Microvision pico engine which consists of an RGB laser source and a 2 axis …

Tags:Laser Projectors| Pico Projectors| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Lars Borg Explains Dynamic Metadata

by Chris Chinnock

SMPTE organized a webinar conducted by Lars Borg, a principle scientist at Adobe, but who was also very active in the development of SMPTE standard ST-2094. In the webcast, Borg describes the various versions …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| ITU| SMPTE| Vol 24 - Issue 05| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

TI Releases New 0.33-inch 1080p Pico Chipset

by Chris Chinnock

If you thought pico projectors and related products were a small backwater in the projection industry, think again. PMA Research projects sales to reach close to 3.5 million units this year, which is not …

Tags:DLP| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Samsung Ties up with Calman

by Chris Chinnock

One of the key messages themes from Samsung, and I suspect will be for the whole TV industry in 2017, was color volume over color gamut. Color volume takes into account the color performance …

Tags:CES 2017| Display Calibration| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Portrait Displays| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 03| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

DigiLens Secures $22M from Key Strategic Partners

by Chris Chinnock

DigiLens, a provider of diffractive waveguide technology for Augmented Reality (AR) and Head-up Displays (HUD), announced they have closed a Series B round of investment to the tune of $22M. “The round was oversubscribed …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foxconn (Honhai)| Head Up Displays HUDs| Panasonic| Rockwell Collins| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Samsung Innovates in TVs

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung officially unveiled a number of TV-related innovations at CES 2017. We described some of them in a pre-CES article (Samsung QD TVs Could be a Game Changer), but additional details and models were …

Tags:CES 2017| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)| Wide Viewing Angles

Vivitek Debuts First 4K Home Theater Projector

by Chris Chinnock

The new Vivitek’s HK2288 projector debuted at CES 2017 is the inaugural product for its new 4K Home Cinema Projector Product Series. A second model, the DH765Z-UST, is a Full HD ultra-short-throw laser projector …

Tags:CES 2017| Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Vivitek| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Dolby Updates from CES 2017

by Chris Chinnock

We had a chance to meet with Dolby in their suite in the Wynn where they had a number of demonstrations of customer TVs with Dolby Vision along with some Dolby Atmos products as …

Tags:CES 2017| Dolby Atmos| Dolby Vision| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Technicolor Talks HDR & VR at CES 2017

by Chris Chinnock

Technicolor had their usual suite in the Venetian where they showcased a number of technologies they are working on. These are primarily related to VR and HDR. One area they highlighted was their partnership …

Tags:CES 2017| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Technicolor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

SLIDE Introduces Line of Picos at CES 2017

by Chris Chinnock

Slide is a developer of smart devices for smart consumers. At CES, it introduced three pico projectors using each using a single DLP chip and LED light sources. All models come with Android OS …

Tags:CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 02