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Sony’s Canvas Display – Best of Show at InfoComm 2016?

by Chris Chinnock

I can’t really crown Sony’s CLEDIS display my best of show winner, as I have only been here one day and have not seen all the cool stuff yet – but this one will …

Tags:Infocomm 2016| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 22| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

3DIcon Changes Focus – Merges with Coretec Industries

by Chris Chinnock

3DIcon Corporation, a developer of 3D volumetric display technologies that are designed to produce 360-degree volumetric high-resolution images, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to merge with Coretec Industries LLC, a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22| Volumetric Displays

3D Developments

by Chris Chinnock

At SID DisplayWeek in San Francisco, there were several demonstrations of 3D technology on the show floor, which we summarize below. We did not review any papers, however. SeeFront is a German company developing …

AR/VR/HUD News

by Chris Chinnock

We did not review the many papers on AR/VR at SID, so below is a summary of what was being shown on the exhibit floor. BOE showed a prototype panel that was 2.8” in …

Projection Advancements

by Chris Chinnock

Below is a summary of some of the projection-related news we saw on the exhibit floor at SID. Moxtek has supplied their Wire Grid Polarizer (WGP) for projection applications for a long time. This …

Fujifilm Discusses Novel Transparent Screen Design

by Chris Chinnock

Transparent screens for projection applications are not very common, but they can be quite effective for advertising, merchandising and increasingly, augmented reality applications such as Head Up Displays. At SID 2016, Fujifilm gave a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Projection Screens| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

ICDM Updates Contrast Metrology Text

by Chris Chinnock

SID’s International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) held an evening meeting at DisplayWeek. The main business was to vote on some new language that was added to one measurement technique and a second section …

LCOS Device Advancements

by Chris Chinnock

Single panel projection, HMD or HUD solutions require a very fast response time from the imager if they operate in a color sequential mode. This mode is preferred as it can increase resolution by …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Speckle Metrology Gets Attention

by Chris Chinnock

The characterization of speckle is an on-going area of development and becoming more critical as laser-based projection systems expand beyond their initial deployments in digital cinema. There were four papers in session 10 on …

SID’s Display Week Opens with Lots of Quantum Dot News

by Chris Chinnock

I have not had a chance to spend much time on the show floor or paper sessions, so I don’t have the full perspective of SID’s DisplayWeek yet. It is my turn to write …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| ROHS| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Comcast Is the First to Offer 1080p HDR

by Chris Chinnock

That’s right – High Dynamic Range is coming to Comcast subscribers this summer – and it will be implemented on 1080p video, not UHD video. This possibility has been discussed for some time, but …

Tags:Comcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Olympics

DNP Focuses on Short Throw Screens

by Chris Chinnock

One of the clear outcomes of the Display Summit China event was the wide support for short throw laser TV products in China. These need special screens that can accept the light at a …