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Sony Focuses on New Master Series TVs

by Chris Chinnock

At the Sony press conference, President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said Sony is focused on three main areas: electronics (to capture, record, watch and listen), entertainment (music, movies, anime, TV and games), and financial …

Sharp Highlights Gen 2 8K Displays and Ecosystem

by Chris Chinnock

Sharp held a press conference at IFA and we attended. Clearly, one of the highlights was the introduction of Generation 2 8K displays. (the first generation barely shipped in Europe, despite a lot of …

Media Turmoil and the Future of Displays

by Chris Chinnock

There has a been a lot of news lately about the rapidly changing media market. This will have an indirect impact on the future of displays, so I thought I would summarize some of …

Tags:broadband| CableLabs| Light Field Displays| Netflix| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Cable Industry Gearing up for the High Bandwidth Needs of Light Field Displays

by Chris Chinnock

CableLabs, the development group funding by the cable industry, held their summer conference last week in Colorado. A number of topics were discussed, but I want to focus on their views of display use …

Sony Seeks Kando with New Master Series TVs

by Chris Chinnock

Sony Electronics used a major media event in New York on July 31th to unveil a new line of TVs dubbed the Master Series that will be offered in OLED and LED-LCD models. The …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| OLEDs| sony| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 25 - Issue 29

DCI Takes First Step to Define HDR Cinema

by Chris Chinnock

The Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) group was formed at the beginning of the film-to-digital transition to help develop the specifications and interchange formats needed for an orderly transition. Now, it has released a statement …

Tags:Cinema Projection| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LED Cinema| Testing| Vol 25 - Issue 28

8K is Right on Track

by Chris Chinnock

8K is right on track. That was the key conclusion of Michael Cioni, SVP Innovation at Panavision in a talk given at the QLED & Advanced Display Summit in Hollywood last week. He based …

Tags:IHS Markit| Samsung Display| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 26

Vuzix may be Early with a Real microLED Product

by Chris Chinnock

Vuzix, the maker of Augmented Reality smart glasses, is working with Plessey Semiconductor and Jasper Display to create a new display device to drive their AR smart glasses. The development roadmap calls for monochrome …

Tags:MicroLED| Vol 25 - Issue 24| Vuzix

Allos Semiconductor Focusing on GaN-on-Silicon for microLEDs

by Chris Chinnock

Fabrication of blue and green LEDs – whether for conventional LED signage or emerging microLED applications – has typically started with a GaN epitaxial layer on sapphire. But the limited size of sapphire substrates …

Is the Red Hydrogen One Phone the Start of Something Bigger?

by Chris Chinnock

Cinema camera maker Red is going into the smartphone business with the Hydrogen One phone that features what they call a 4V light field display made by Leia. Red disrupted the cinema camera market …

Tags:Light Field Displays| Red| Vol 25 - Issue 22

3D Display Round up

by Chris Chinnock

Coretronics was in the i-Zone with a near-to-eye light field display. The idea is to create a multi-focal plane display to avoid conflicts with vergence and accommodation. This approach can also use a microlens …

Light Field Labs Provides More Clarity on Light Field Definitions

by Chris Chinnock

Jon Karafin from Light Field Labs gave a symposium paper (25-2) and a presentation in the Immersive Conference that was very similar to presentations we have reported on recently (TS03 The Future of Cinema …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21