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by Chris Chinnock
At InfoComm, Canon was showing a 4K projector but with no information available for the media. At the Canon Expo, it was in plain sight and powering several demos. In fact, according to Canon …
Tags:4K DCI| Canon| Canon New York 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 37
by Chris Chinnock
Canon held their special EXPO in the Javits Center in New York last week. Over 9,000 people attended the cavernous exhibit. There were so many different aspects of Canon on display, it was a …
Tags:3D printing| Canon| Canon New York 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 37
by Chris Chinnock
The new UHD TV specification calls for an expanded color gamut called BT2020. But no current TVs can meet the specification because the red, green and blue primaries are specified without a tolerance. And, …
Tags:3M (MMM)| AUO| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Hisense| Rec 2020| Vol 22 - Issue 35
by Chris Chinnock
The standards organization, VESA, has developed a compression codec that it calls Display Stream Compression (DSC). Now, silicon to support the encoding and decoding of video has been developed and should enable products to …
Tags:Codecs| Display Stream (DSC)| VESA| Vol 22 - Issue 35
by Chris Chinnock
That’s the message that Gary Bailer, Sharp’s Director of Product Management, Information Display Products told us in a phone interview. “It is important to communicate this message to our customer base following a lot …
Tags:Hisense| LFD - Large Format Display| Manufacturing| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 31
by Chris Chinnock
Netflix has grown by leaps and bounds from a distributor of DVDs to a major content creation and distribution powerhouse. It is leading the pack in the distribution of UHD content and now looks …
Tags:Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 22 - Issue 33
by Chris Chinnock
One of the earliest pioneers in AR and VR, Tom Furness, has just signed on as a senior advisor of a new company called EnvelopVR (not envelope). To see why, I was able to …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality
by Chris Chinnock
InfoComm has issued (July 9, 2015) a new draft standard called “Direct View Display Image Systems Contrast Ratio”. It can be reviewed here. But some believe the system contrast specification for watching movies is …
Tags:Avixa (was Infocomm)| Standards| Vol 22 - Issue 30
by Chris Chinnock
DDD, a company that has been involved with stereoscopic 3D for over 20 years, has released a new product called TriDef SmartCam. It is essentially a virtual green screen application that allows you to …
Tags:Cameras| VideoConferencing| Vol 22 - Issue 30
by Chris Chinnock
The RGB laser projectors pioneered by Christie and Barco are very expensive solutions – rumored to be close to a million dollars for very large venues. With very low volumes for these specialized lasers, …
Tags:6p Laser| Laser Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 28
by Chris Chinnock
France-based Dreamvision has announced a new projector called the UST25-4000HDi that it claims is the world’s first ultra short throw (UST) FHD laser projector. Sony has a UST laser projector at 4K resolution, so …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 27
by Chris Chinnock
What if you combined a luminare with a projector? Imagine replacing rows of fluorescent lights or recessed lighting with LED-based luminare-projectors. You could illuminate with white light, colored light or projection-mapped images on tables, …
Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 27
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