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Protec Projection Maps on Moving Surfaces

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Object tracking technology supplied by CAST BlackTrax Ltd (Toronto, Canada) was used by Production Technology LLC (Protec, Dubai, U.A.E.), at the Hamdan bin Mohammed Programme for Smart Government awards (HbMPSG) in late 2014. Protec is said to …

Tags:Beacons| Christie| Large Display Monitor| Mapping & Cartography| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Pro AV| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Sensio Announces 4K 3D TV Distribution Format

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On January 5th, Sensio  (Montreal, Québec, Canada) announced a new 3D format at CES 2015 for streaming 3D content to UHD televisions called the Sensio 3D/4K format. According to the company, this format is compatible with …

Tags:3D TV| HEVC (H.265)| LG Electronics (LGE)| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 05

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Epson Projectors at Sean Kelly Gallery

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Currently there is an installation of the Chinese artist Sun Xun’s work using four Epson G6750WU projectors at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. Meko has posted the Epson press release on this installation but I wanted …

Tags:Epson| Large Display Monitor| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Emmy Awards for Familiar Names

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Two companies familiar to Display Daily readers won engineering Emmy Awards recently for their work on JPEG2000 (J2K), intoPIX and Barco. Each company received a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for its work on JPEG2000 standardization and interoperability within …

Tags:Awards| Barco| JPEG2000| SMPTE| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Primeview Introduces Industrial OLED

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On Christmas Eve, Primeview USA Inc. (New York, NY) announced it was introducing an OLED monitor targeting industrial applications. The product is being introduced in partnership with LG Display (LGD) and, of course, uses LGD glass. The …

Tags:Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Christie Acquires Coolux

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Left: Coolux Pandoras Box quad server. Right: Quad HD-SDI card I first became acquainted with Coolux Media Systems (Cologne Germany) as a major supplier of controllers to the Pro AV industry at last summer’s Rental and …

Tags:Blend & Warp| Christie| Large Display Monitor| Media Servers

Are We Connected Yet?

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Connectivity – The plaintive cry from the back seat of “Are we there yet?” is familiar to any parent who ever took a child on a car trip, even a short one. Perhaps this …

Tags:Radio| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 01

3D Omnia Introduces Cinema Polarization Modulator

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Projection – Digital Cinema – 3D Omnia (Gwangmyeong, South Korea) has introduced an improved polarization modulator for 3D digital cinema that the company says will significantly increase the efficiency of polarized 3D systems, thereby …

Tags:3D Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Polariser-based 3D| Polarisers

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Userful Uses Ethernet to Drive 4K Videowalls

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Controllers/Scalers/Processors – Userful Corporation (Calgary Alberta) announced today the availability of its software solution to the videowall problem, which had initially been announced in October. The solution leverages the company’s background in desktop virtualization …

Tags:Blend & Warp| DAAS (Display as a Service)| Retransmission| Video Walls

Dolby to Take on IMAX in Large Format Theaters

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On December 3rd, Dolby Laboratories announced Dolby Cinema, a branded premium cinema to compete with IMAX. It will offer moviegoers an experience that combines, Dolby says, “spectacular” image and sound technologies with “inspired” design …

Tags:Cinema IMAX| Dolby| Dolby Atmos| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Disney Preserves (Some) HDR for Consumer TV

by Matthew Brennesholtz

High dynamic range (HDR) content, such as Dolby Vision, has two major problems. First, how to generate it and second, how to display it. Disney Research in Zürich has a proposed solution to the …

Tags:Disney| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49