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Lang Dims LED to Raise Contrast

Lang AG has improved black levels on its Leyard LED displays. At ISE this year, the company showed the Leyard TV ...

Apple Voted ‘Coolest Wearables Brand’

A survey by Juniper Research has found that Apple was voted the ‘Coolest Wearables Brand’ by consumers – regardless of the ...

SMPTE Announces New Team for 2016

SMPTE has announced that its board of governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large: Chris ...

Dolby Vision comes to Vestel OLED and Ultra HD TVs

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) and Vestel announced Dolby Vision™ will be featured across the entire range of Vestel’s Ultra HD (UHD) ...

AGON – AOC Launches Premium Gaming Monitor Line-up

Derived from ancient Greek, AGON stands for competition, clash and antagonism. These are the strong characteristics that AOC, a market-leading display ...

Rumour: Apple Passes UltraHD With New iMac

9to5Mac claims that Apple will launch a high-resolution 21.5″ iMac within the week. ‘Multiple reliable sources’ have told the site that ...

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Metamerism Updates from David Long

by Chris Chinnock

It is possible for a variety of spectrally unique (and different) stimuli to produce identical visual responses. Spectrally variant color stimuli that are perceived identically are known as metamers. With display-­rendered imagery, the objective …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Rec 2020| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

ST 2094 Focuses on Dynamic Metadata (part 2)

by Chris Chinnock

ST 2094 is quite flexible allowing the use of windows to do specific transforms. That means a window may be used to apply a different transform for a bright highlight or dark region of …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Colour Quality| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

ST 2094 Focuses on Dynamic Metadata (part 1)

by Chris Chinnock

One of the big areas of focus at the SMPTE conference was the need to ensure that the wide range of luminance and color carried in HDR signals will map correctly in SDR displays …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

UHD Capture and Lighting Impacts

by Chris Chinnock

A paper from Panasonic and NHK looked at the effects of LED lighting on the color reproduction of UHD images in a broadcast environment. The table below provides a nice summary of the type …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Sources & Lamps| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Grass Valley Gets Ready for HDR Live TV Production

by Chris Chinnock

Grass Valley’s Sr. product Manager for Cameras, Klaus Weber, recently hosted a webinar on HDR (High Dynamic Range) for live TV production and also gave a paper at the SMPTE conference covering similar ground. …

Tags:Cameras| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Measuring Cinema Contrast – an Update

by Chris Chinnock

Miller Schuck from RealD also gave a presentation on work they have done to understand the real contrast in a theater and how that might impact the design of a HDR projector. Schuck gave …

Tags:Cinema Projection| Contrast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

China Developing Cinema Image Standards

by Chris Chinnock

One of the papers delivered at the SMPTE conference focused on what the Chinese government and exhibitors are doing about image quality – both 2D and 3D. There already exists a Chinese standard, GD/J047-2013, …

Tags:3D Cinema| China| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

VR Gets Full Attention at SMPTE Conference

by Chris Chinnock

A special symposium on Virtual Reality (VR) was held to open the 2015 SMPTE fall conference here in Hollywood, California. There were a number of good papers, a nice panel and some demos that …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 44

New SMPTE HDR Report Offers a Roadmap for Future Activity

by Chris Chinnock

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has published a new study group (SG) report on the high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging ecosystem. 170 top international experts contributed to the report, which summarizes an …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

A Booth Tour of the TCL Chinese RGB Laser IMAX Theater

by Chris Chinnock

When in Hollywood, you should do some sightseeing. For me, that meant a booth tour at the IMax theater adjacent to the SMPTE conference. This is located in the TCL Chinese theater (formerly the …

Tags:3D Cinema| 6p Laser| Cinema IMAX| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Qualcomm

Qualcomm Result 05/11/15

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Qualcomm Inc. reported Q4 and full year results of operations with a 12 month net profit of $5.27 billion, or $3.26 per share, down 34% YoY from $7.5 billion. The 12 month turnover was …

Tags:Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 22 - Issue 44