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Introduction to Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

Display Summit 2018 was held on Oct. 2-4 at two facilities: Harman International in Northridge, California and at the Pacific Winnetka theaters in Chatsworth, California. A 2-day symposium on the light field ecosystem and …

Demos and Discussion at Pacific Winnetka Theater at Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

About 75 Display Summit attendees came to the bonus session at the Pacific Winnetka theater, home of the first commercial Samsung Onyx LED theater in the US. The session was kicked off by David …

Other Cinema/Large Venue Considerations Update from Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

The afternoon session of October 3rd was dedicated to a number of other technologies and considerations around next generation cinema. Speaker Joe Kane, from Joe Kane Productions, focused on the creation of a single …

HDR Cinema Screen Update from Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

The morning of October 3rd was devoted to discussing the technology and related issues around creating an HDR solution for cinema. Dan Cryan from IHS started the session by giving an overview of the …

Light Field Display Update from Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

In the afternoon session, the focus was more on advanced 3D displays. Jon Karafin from Light Field Labs started the discussion by giving a presentation most of which we have described before. It included …

Tags:Display Summit 2018| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 39

Light Field Capture and Distribution Update From Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

Yahya Mirza from Aclertic Systems began the conference with a discussion of the computational needs for rendering light field images. His company’s goal is to “better understand what it takes to create content for …

Tags:Display Summit 2018| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 39

iBeam Materials Working on GaN-on-Metal Process for LEDs

by Chris Chinnock

One of the more interesting presentations at the recent Display Summit (proceedings available soon), was a paper from Vladimir Matias at iBeam Materials. His company works closely with Sandia National Labs where they exploited …

Tags:LED| MicroLED| Semiconductors| Vol 25 - Issue 39

Nanophotonica Making Nice Strides in EL-QD Solution

by Chris Chinnock

Nanophotonica is a company that has already gotten the attention of many display developers, but they have not been too visible beyond their development partners so far. That may be changing as I recently …

Tags:Novel Displays| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 38

HDR on Projectors can be Tricky

by Chris Chinnock

You may have noticed that a lot of home theater and some ProAV projectors are now advertising HDR support. That should mean that they are able to detect and HDR signals and switch into …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Interfaces| Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Samsung Focuses on 8K, AI, IoT and 5G at IFA

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung generated plenty of pre-IFA news when the media started reporting on the 8K TV banners hanging around the IFA fairgrounds. The company did not disappoint, revealing its plans to roll out 8K TV …

Grundig TV Updates from IFA

by Chris Chinnock

Grundig (owned by Beko/Arçelik) did not highlight any TVs in its press materials at IFA, but there have been some updates. According to booth personnel, Dolby Vision has been implemented on some models. Also …

Changhong Focus on OLED TVs: Upgrades with Android

by Chris Chinnock

As is typical of Changhong, they showed many TVs and a projection solution but did not have a spokesperson who could provide more than just the basic information. After reviewing what we wrote about …