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Osterhout Design Group (ODG), leading developer and manufacturer of mobile AR/VR smartglasses, today announced the closing of a $58 million Series ...
In an email to employees, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, has outlined changes to the company’s senior management team, which includes the ...
Nintendo has announced refreshed models of the 3DS and 3DS XL handheld consoles, focusing on the screen. The ‘New 3DS’ and ...
After a series of rumours, Roku has now announced a complete line of four new boxes, along with a special version ...
by Andrew Fenn
Apple has announced the costs of repairs for its latest flagship smartphone, the iPhone X. In the event that the device’s Super AMOLED display is broken out of warranty, repairs will set consumers back …
Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Repair| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Andrew Fenn
After a long and drawn out decision-making process, the South Korean government has approved the construction of LG’s Gen 8.5 OLED facility in Guangzhou, China. The government had reservations about the plans, which will …
Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Andrew Fenn
Active Matrix OLED microdisplay manufacturer eMagin has announced a new development and licensing agreement with a “tier-one consumer electronics company”, which is now authorised to use the firm’s technology. The agreement will generate licensing …
Tags:eMagin| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Andrew Fenn
Apple has rolled out tvOS 11.1 to Apple TV, bringing a range of bug and performance fixes including a fix for the Krack Wi-fi vulnerability. Additionally, the update adds the TV app to devices …
Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Kyunghan Lee from KAI Inc. and Sungmin Cho from the Korean Film Council described a VR project they are working on to model multi-screen theatrical configurations. They started by noting two examples: the Barco …
Tags:Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Tim Ryan from TI’s DLP Cinema group gave a presentation on the way DLP cinema projectors can offer variable frame rates. The projectors can run at various frame rates already, but require time to …
Tags:Cinema Projection| DLP| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Marty Richards of Dolby Laboratories presented a model for evaluating the actual contrast in a theater and then validated this model by showing data from several Dolby Vision theaters. The effort is similar to …
Tags:Cinema Projection| Contrast| Dolby Vision| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Yuji Nagata from NHK gave a presentation describing an 8K HDR broadcast workflow based on HLG. While trial broadcast of 8K content started in August of 2017 in Japan, this will expand to regular …
Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Large Display Monitor| NHK| SMPTE 2017| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Upscaling| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Cinematographer, Pierre H Routhier gave a presentation on storytelling in 8K. He wondered, for example, if there is more value from the filmmaker’s point of view in having more spatial resolution as opposed to …
Tags:Cinema| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Masayuki Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Sakiyama, Takayuki Yamashita of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) said that they have developed a Tico (SMPTE RDD35:2016) codec for 8K ultrahigh-definition TV (8K-UHDTV) production. The codec works at a compression rate …
Tags:Encoders| Large Display Monitor| NHK| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Tomohiro Nakamura from NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories described their new 8K portable camera. NHK has already developed a conventional 3-chip 8K broadcast camera, but it very large and expensive, so they developed …
Tags:Cameras| Large Display Monitor| NHK| SMPTE 2017| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 24 - Issue 41
by Chris Chinnock
Elizabeth Pieri and Jaclyn Pytlarz from Dolby Laboratories started their presentation by saying that the common color accuracy metric, delta E2000 (based on CIELAB), is actually not that accurate when used on HDR displays, …
Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Colour Quality| Dolby| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41
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