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Frank (Qun) Yan, Professor at Fuzhou University (China) & General Manager of SID China gave the first microLED talk titled MicroLED driving the third wave of technology revolution of information display. This talk was an introduction to microLEDs and all of his important points have been incorporated above. Jihoon Kang from Samsung Electronics was the … Read more
We’ve been catching up this week. We got the CineEurope report finished and Matt has worked late into his night to complete the report on Chris’s event in Hollywood last week, so for the first time in a couple of months, we’re up to date on event reports. Phew! In technology terms, we’re just about … Read more
Valve’s Head of Business Development, Jan-Peter Ewert, revealed at last weeks’ White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 conference that Steam’s monthly active users with a VR headset have grown 160% year-on-year. Ewert didn’t provide a number to signify exactly how many users that equates to, but also said that the platform’s daily active users increased to … Read more
MMD has added two new monitors to its Philips range in Europe. The 43” Philips Momentum 436M6VBPAB is the first monitor of the Philips Momentum Line and it features an UltraHD VA panel with colours enhanced by quantum dot technology. The high end monitor is the first to meet the Vesa DisplayHDR 1000 labelling scheme … Read more
MicroLEDs were a very popular topic at the QLED & Advanced Display Summit (ADS), with eight talks taking up most of the second day of the conference. One reason the topic was popular at the ADS was that it is an extremely popular topic in the display R&D community, as shown by the rapid growth … Read more
The first speaker on the HDR Cinema topic was Christopher Buchanan of Samsung Electronics America titled The (LED) Future Starts Today. His talk was mostly a pep talk about LED Cinema especially, of course, Samsung’s Onyx LED cinema system. The Onyx system consists of more than just the LED video wall from Samsung. It also … Read more
We seem to be a little late to report it, as there are only two matches left, but the BBC has been streaming UltraHD footage of the World Cup and the Wimbledon tennis tournament with HLG support of HDR through its iPlayer app. The connection has needed to be at least 40Mbps, because the sports … Read more
There were also four speakers in the Display & Mastering Tools section of the Advanced Display Summit. Mostly, the speakers discussed the tools their companies can provide to the production and post-production industry in support of advanced displays such as 8K, WCG, HDR, etc. The first speaker in this group as Florian Friedrich from FF … Read more
There were four papers at the Advanced Display Summit specifically on Quantum Dots (QDs). Since these papers covered relatively familiar ground, I will discuss them only briefly. Several of the papers referred to QD information from SID 2018 and Meko has very extensive coverage of SID (105 pages), including both the QD technical papers and … Read more
Chris Chinnock opened the ADS with his talk titled Addressing the Challenges of Selling 8K. This talk mostly addressed issues associated with UHD-2 TV, not 8K cinema systems. The transition from Standard Definition (SD) to High Definition (HD) TV was driven by multiple factors besides resolution, such as a government mandate in the US, digital … Read more
Insight Media and Samsung hosted the QLED and Advanced Display Summit (ADS) in West Hollywood on June 27 and 28. The agenda included Quantum Dots (QDs), 8K, Display and Mastering Tools, High Dynamic Range (HDR) Cinema and microLED displays. While there was discussion of QDs at the event, regardless of its title, there was no … Read more
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has published its first-ever standard addressing AR/VR technologies. “CTA-2069, Definitions and Characteristics of Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies” introduces various terms defining emerging consumer technologies such as AR, MR, outside-in-tracking, VR video and images, room-scale VR and X reality (XR). According to CTA’s Sales and Forecasts report for 2018, VR … Read more
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