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Putting Your Eyeglasses in Your Mobile Device

by Chris Chinnock

Eyeglasses, surgery and contact lenses are great at correcting first order vision problems, but not for some of the personal variations and more complex vision disorders. One idea to address this is to thoroughly …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Ultra HD Blu-ray Authoring Group Formed

by Chris Chinnock

The new Ultra HD Blu-ray specs have been approved and new players and content are expected by the end of the year. But authoring UHD Blu-ray content is more complex than HD, so a …

Tags:Blu-ray| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 23

The Elephant in the Display Metrology Room

by Chris Chinnock

I am going to say something controversial: The way display specs are reported is a flawed system prone to marketing manipulation. And worse, the specs do not represent what the human sees in an …

Tags:Measurement| SID Display Week 2015| Standards| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Fraunhofer FEP Coatings Enable Efficient Laser Beam Expander for Holographic Displays

by Chris Chinnock

(If this story looks familiar, we covered it last week [Fraunhofer Coatings Enable Full-Laser Backlights], but Chris got a lot of extra information.) Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Laser TVs| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Crestron Continues its Investment in 4K

by Chris Chinnock

At the Sapphire Marketing event in New York last spring, Crestron talked about switching 4k/30 signals and its 4k certification program. At the same event this year, Crestron focused on 4k 60 fps describing …

Tags:Crestron| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| Switchers| UltraHD & 4K| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 21

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Asset Management is Key in AV-IT Convergence

by Chris Chinnock

So thinks Crestron, as explained by Dan Jackson at the recent Sapphire Marketing event in New York. The days of mix and match with best-in-class AV boxes that are different for every room in …

Tags:Crestron| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 21

IMAX’s New Laser Projector is Unique in Design – and Performance

by Chris Chinnock

I had a chance to visit with Imax in Toronto last Autumn where we discussed the laser projector that was in development. But the firm did not want to reveal very much about the …

Tags:3D Projection| IMAX| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Options for Wired Infrastructure Multiply Creating New Opportunities

by Chris Chinnock

It used to be that organizations would set up multiple wired infrastructure networks to handle phone, data, video, audio, control, security, KVM, etc. Now, multiple options are emerging that can allow one or two …

Tags:HDBaseT| MHL| Networks| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 20

OLEDWorks on the Move in OLED Lighting

by Chris Chinnock

The prospects for OLED lighting is getting some serious attention from a company called OLEDWorks (Rochester, NY). They have just announced deals with Corning, Philips and Universal Display to provide new momentum to the …

Tags:Corning| Large Display Monitor| Lighting| OLED Fabs| OLED Materials| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 19

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Sony Tells HDR Story

by Chris Chinnock

Did you know that Sony has had TVs in the market for a year that can display content with expanded contrast and wider color gamut? Sounds like HDR right, well it is – sort …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| sony| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 19

Barco Focuses its Efforts

by Chris Chinnock

I had the opportunity to spend the whole day meeting with many people at Barco’s Kunne facility in Belgium last week. This is a company that is on the move, pushing technology in every …

Tags:6p Laser| Barco| Laser Projectors| LED| Vol 22 - Issue 18