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Every Business is in the Information Business

Phew…. I have just finished my write up of Infocomm, bringing to an end the peak of news activity in June, ...

UK Retail Sales in January Up 1.6%

Total UK retail sales rose 1.6% in January, according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. This compares with a 5.4% ...

Cynora Promises Blue TADF in 2017

OLED Info has conducted an interview with Dr. Andreas Haldi, the CMO of Cynora, the German start up that is working ...

Leader Adds HDR Support to Waveform Monitor

Leader Instruments showed its new high-dynamic-range (HDR) features for our LV5490 4K waveform monitor and LV7390 4K upgradeable rasterizer. The LV5490SER07 ...

InstaVR Speeds App Creation

A new tool was recently bought to our attention, which can be used to develop publication-ready VR apps. InstaVR, from Candlify ...

PSCO Prepares for PLASA

UK distributor PSCO will be showing a variety of LED and LCD displays at Plasa 2015 this October. The show, from ...

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Domed Theater Demos at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

Canon was showing a dome theater in its booth at NAB that was frankly, not very good. Content was captured with seven Canon C-300 Mark II DSLRs in a Radiant Images rig. Time lapse …

Tags:Canon| Dome Projection| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Future of Cinema Conference Round up

by Chris Chinnock

Frank Poradish of Brass Roots Technology gave an overview of the evolution of digital projection in the cinema touching on the latest trends in resolution, higher contrast, laser illumination, higher frame rates and wide …

Tags:Cinema| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

SpectraCal and LG Developing Better HDR Calibration Solution

by Chris Chinnock

Tyler Pruitt from SpectraCal, now part of Portrait Display, said that calibrating an HDR display is much harder than an SDR display. With HDR content, there is almost always a color volume remapping function …

Tags:Display Metrology| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Portrait Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 17

ICtCp Better than CIELab for Measuring Color Differences with HDR

by Chris Chinnock

Liz Pieri of Dolby Labs gave a presentation explaining why in HDR displays, one should really use the ICtCp color space instead of the Lab space. The reason is that using the DeltaE2000 metric …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Metameric Failure Not an Issue in Cinemas

by Chris Chinnock

Matt Cowen of Entertainment Technology Consultants, talked about metamers. He explained that when you move from broadband primaries, for example, from a Xenon lamp, to very narrow band primaries, as seen in RGB laser …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Metamerism| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Volumetric Capture Gaining Acceptance

by Chris Chinnock

For virtual reality capture, there are two basic techniques: Inside out features an array of cameras on a single rig looking outward. This is most common type of VR capture Outside in features dozens …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Light Field Lab, Inc. Taking Ecosystem Approach

by Chris Chinnock

NAB 2017 was the official debut of a new company: Light Field Lab. It is composed of the top engineers from Lytro who led the light field cinema camera initiatives, debuted at NAB 2016 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Light Field Ecosystem Improving

by Chris Chinnock

One of the sessions at the “Future of Cinema” conference organized by SMPTE at NAB focused on the light field ecosystem. Speakers talked about what they are doing and progress is definitely being made …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17

OLED Pain = LPTS Gain

by Sweta Dash

A few weeks back I wrote an article in the Display Daily, titled, “Can the magic of OLED display bring strong growth to smart phones?”. I said in the article that OLED display is …

Tags:LTPS TFT| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 18

China TV Shipments Down 14% in Q1

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell said that shipments of TVs in China fell 14% in Q1 to 11.69 million units. The market was hit by high inventories and high set costs combined with weaker demand. The top six …

Tags:Large Display Monitor

Android UltraHD to Come to Finland

by Alan Spencer

The Finnish telco, DNA, is to launch an Android-based open ecosystem 4K-enabled box, the DNA TV-hubi. The launch will be in the spring, and will enable users to bring online video services to their …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Nordics| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Tobii Introduces PCEye Plus

by Bob Raikes

Tobii Dynavox has released the PCEye Plus is a new eye tracker that incorporates a four array microphone for voice input. The device also allows the use of a switch and can be used …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 17