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Samsung Brings Policing to the 21st Century

Samsung is supplying 4,000 Galaxy Note 3 devices to the UK’s West Yorkshire police force, replacing traditional notebooks. The phablets can ...

PC Market On Course for Slight Decline

According to a new forecast from IDC, global shipments of personal computing devices (PCDs), comprised of traditional PCs (a combination of ...

E Ink Partners With Wei Feng

E Ink’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Transcend Optronics, has made an investment in Wuxi Wei Feng Technology, of Taiwan. The investment marks the ...

Global Smartphone Demand Peaks Alongside a Leap in Average Sales Price in 2Q17, Says GfK Survey

Global smartphone demand totaled 347 million units in 2Q17, up four percent year-on-year. This makes it the strongest second quarter on ...

HannStar Results 04/11/2016

HannStar Display announced Q3 FY16 consolidated sales of NT$6.96 bn ($220.6 mn) and a net profit of NT$2.35 bn ($74.5 mn) ...

Freedeo Raises Lawsuits Against GetD and Le-Vision

Freedeo has announced that it has launched lawsuits against the parent companies of GetD and Le-Vision for patent infringement on the ...

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SpectraCal Calls for a By-Pass Mode in HDR Displays

by Chris Chinnock

Tyler Pruitt from SpectraCal/Portrait Displays started his presentation by describing a big problem with HDR displays – color volume remapping (which he said includes tone mapping as well). This is needed when the color …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Display Calibration| Large Display Monitor| Portrait Displays| SMPTE 2017| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 41

A Proposal for ACES 2.0

by Chris Chinnock

Gary Demos of Image Essence and Doug Walker from Autodesk Media & Entertainment gave a very good presentation on a new color management solution that they believe should be considered for the next version …

Tags:ACES| Colour Management & Processing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

RIT Study Tries to Determine a Just Noticeable Difference with Frame Rate Perception

by Chris Chinnock

Elizabeth DoVale and David Long from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) started her presentation (which also won an award from SMPTE) by noting that as more films consider the possibility of shooting in …

Tags:HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 24 - Issue 41

NASA Describes Live UHD Broadcast from the International Space Station

by Chris Chinnock

Rodney Grubbs of NASA MSFC described how NASA created a live UHD video feed from the International Space Station (ISS) to NAB 2017 in Las Vegas. The program featured a Red Dragon camera, a …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Display Interfacing 2017: Getting Around the UHD ‘Speed Bump’

by Chris Chinnock

Pete Putman started his presentation by noting that until 2012 or so, the existing connectivity standards like DVI and HDMI with pixel clocks up to 330MHz and data rates of 10.2 – 21.6 Gbps …

Tags:DisplayPort| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41

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On the Show Floor at SMPTE 2017

by Chris Chinnock

AstroDesign, working with NHK, was showing a real time MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) measurement using the knife-edge technique. To demonstrate this, an 8K camera was imaging a test pattern that is then processed and …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Dolby| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Next Action| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

All I Want for Christmas… (VR Version)

by Len Scrogan

As the holiday season speedily approaches, my thoughts are already drifting towards the festive and nostalgic sentiments that accompany this time of year. Two songs immediately come to mind. First, I think of Mariah …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 45

Huawei Mate 10 Teardown Reveals BOM

by Bob Raikes

TechInsights has branched out from its policy of just publishing teardowns on Apple and Samsung Galaxy phones and has published a look at the Huawei Mate 10. (Huawei Mate 10 Uses LCD, Mate 10 …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Teardowns| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Ultra-Thin Cameras for Thinner Smartphones

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Everyone has seen one of those Apple iPhone ads, “Shot on iPhone 7.” (Or iPhone 6, 7+, 8 or 8+.) Gorgeous pictures shot by professional photographers blown up to billboard size or perhaps printed …

Tags:Cameras| iPhone| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 41

What You Call VR, I Call a CAVE

by Jon Peddie

Back in the fall of 1991, when many of you were still in school, and the old guys reading this were trying to figure out how to get two or more AIBs to work …

Tags:CAVEs| Graphics Processing| Passive 3D| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41

ASUS Announces ZenFone 4 Family in North America

by Damir Lokas

ASUS today announced the availability of the ZenFone 4 family in North America: the ZenFone 4 Pro, ZenFone 4, and ZenFone 4 Max. The ZenFone 4 family is the first family of smartphones to …

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