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3D Printing of Optical Components with Glass

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Additive Manufacturing (AM), better known as 3D printing, has taken off since a patent on the topic was issued in 1984 to Charles Hull who used a photo-crosslinkable polymer material. Most current 3D printing …

Tags:3D Printers| Glass| Large Display Monitor| MIT| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Displays and BYOD

by Matthew Brennesholtz

BYOD can mean either Bring Your Own Device or Bring Your Own Display. The first meaning is often applied in the corporate world where it means an employee supplies their own smartphone, tablet or …

Tags:Apple| BYOD| Google| Vol 22 - Issue 42

Competitor to Quantum Dots Emerging

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Quantum dots (QDs) are exactly that – microscopic balls of material that are roughly spherical and practically zero-dimensional points. Quantum dots have been hailed as a technology that can bring near-Rec. 2020 colorimetry to …

Tags:Laser| LED| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 40

United Object Shows Laser Picoprojector

by Matthew Brennesholtz

United Object (UO) is a brand name launched in Korea in May of this year by Korea’s SK Telecom for its lifestyle-related products. In July, they expanded the brand into China. Now they are …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Why Don’t We Have High Frame Rate for Cinema and TV?

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Ultra-High Definition (UHD) TV has more than just more pixels. I see it as a four-legged stool, with more pixels as one leg, wide color gamut (WCG) as a second, high dynamic range (HDR) …

Tags:HFR - High Frame Rate| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 38

HDR Coming “Real Soon Now”

by Matthew Brennesholtz

UHD TV is expected to be more than just additional pixels. It will also include wide colour gamut (WCG), high frame rate (HFR) high dynamic range (HDR) and, perhaps, other features. These additional features, …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| QD Vision| Skyworth| TCL| Vol 22 - Issue 36| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Three Steps to Better Color

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The topic of Better Pixels, not more pixels has been a hot topic recently. “Better Pixels” includes several things such as wide color gamut (WCG), high dynamic range (HDR), high frame rate (HFR), etc. …

Tags:Colour (Color)| EBU| SMPTE| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Practical 4K for Pro AV

by Matthew Brennesholtz

4k video is here, along with most of the components required to implement it in a professional AV application. That doesn’t mean it’s straightforward to implement a 4k Pro AV system, or even something …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Rental and Staging| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 33

1000 fps Projection System

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Researcher Gaku Narita and his colleagues at Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory at the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. co-developed a high-speed projector capable of projecting images with a frame rate of 1,000 …

Tags:Cameras| DLP| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 32

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Rental And Staging Roadshow Report

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On July 29th, the Rental and Staging Roadshow came to New York. The focus was on professional AV products as used by the rental and staging (R&S) industry. Two panel discussions at the roadshow …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Media Servers| Rental and Staging| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Quantum Dots: Not just for Displays Anymore

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Everyone in the display community knows (or should know) of the application of quantum dots to improve display colorimetry to near Rec. 2020 standards. The high spectral purity that makes quantum dots usable for …

Tags:Colour (Color)| MIT| Quantum Dots| Sensors| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Extreme Vis-Sim: Pluto

by Matthew Brennesholtz

As anyone with any connection to the Internet knows (i.e. all DD readers), the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to dwarf planet Pluto at 7:50AM EDT (11:50 Universal Time, as used by …

Tags:IMAX| Simulation| Visualisation| Vol 22 - Issue 29