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Dave Eccles is from Rockwell Collins (RC) and he said he has a great job – he gets paid to play games. Simulators are now so good that simulation counts as flight time, so you can qualify as a commercial pilot without ever flying a real plane. He explained that some simulators often need collimated … Read more
Kurt Hoffmeister is CTO from Mechdyne which is a US AV company that has been around a long time but now around 50% of its business is in 3D and immersive technologies. 30% of the overall business is outside the US. He explained what VR is and he said that CAVEs were invented in 1992 … Read more
Justin Kennington is from Aptovision and he talked about transmitting and switching video over IP. Aptovision has chips to put HDMI over ethernet networks and we covered this in some detail in our ISE report. (Aptovision Developing Plethora 10Gb End-Point Chip) He started by drawing an analogy with phones. Phones used to use dedicated wires … Read more
InfoComm International®, the trade association representing the commercial audiovisual industry worldwide, is pleased to announce the release of a new standard for sizing displayed images for audiovisual systems: ANSI/INFOCOMM V202.01:2016, Display Image Size for 2D Content in Audiovisual Systems. Displays are essential to the working process in many environments, and viewers depend on the displayed … Read more
It has been a “head down” week, catching up with routine things that had built up in the three weeks that I was away in the US at SID, AWE, the Display Summit and Infocomm, getting some more data done and writing up the Summit. I’m nearly done with that, but, unfortunately, I was not … Read more
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. and Lionsgate today announced they are partnering to release a slate of Lionsgate new release and catalog titles mastered in Dolby Vision™ and mixed in Dolby Atmos® to offer a premium cinematic experience to the home entertainment market. As a result of this collaboration, consumers with Dolby Vision enabled televisions and Dolby … Read more
The HDMI Forum quietly released an update to the HDMI 2.0 standard – HDMI 2.0b – earlier this year, although we did not cover it at the time. HDMI 2.0a (HDR Formats Come to HDMI) added support for HDR to the HDMI standard. v2.0b, however, was not a major release, but just a minor editorial … Read more
Image: Rugged PC ReviewA German car maker – which cannot be named – has chosen to use rugged tablets from Xplore Technologies for more than 12 years. Xplore is celebrating more than a decade of continuous orders for its Xplore XC6 and Motion F5M tablets, which are used to replace paper-based processes in factory and … Read more
The CTO of Fox Filmed Entertainment and chairman of the UltraHD Alliance, Hanno Basse, has said that cinemas need to catch up to HDR TVs. Basse was speaking to HD Guru at the Fox Innovation Lab in California, and had several interesting points to make about production, colour, grading and the HDR workflow. We encourage … Read more
An Infocomm task group has developed a standard for sizing displayed images on AV systems. Current methods used by AV professions to calculate appropriate image sizes are not standardised, and their basis is not verifiable. The new standard (‘ANSI/INFOCOMM V202.01:2016, Display Image Size for 2D Content in Audiovisual Systems’) aims to establish universal methods and … Read more
Dolby and Lionsgate are working together to release a raft of Lionsgate titles – new and old – mastered in Dolby Vision. The content will also be mixed with Dolby Atmos audio.
DarbeeVision has joined the UltraHD Forum. DarbeeVision focuses on digital image enhancement and is the developer of the Darbee Visual Presence (DVP) technology; it plans to release an UltraHD DVP chipset this year.
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