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Todd Fender is from market research behemoth, IHS. He began by saying you need to be careful with growth data. Often there are big percentages quoted, but if you have a small market, then percentages are not difficult. Nothing happens very quickly in the public display market; transitions such as analogue to digital, resolution transitions … Read more
The fourth session of the day was on market trends and was moderated by Clive Couldwell of AV Magazine. The first presentation was by Chris McIntyre-Brown of FutureSource Consulting. After introducing his firm, he said that in recent years many of his customers have re-organised around vertical markets, rather than around technologies. Projection remains a … Read more
Seth Coe-Sullivan (who some of you know him from QD Vision where he remains on the board) is from Luminit where he is mainly working now. The company is a privately held business with around 70 staff and has dealt with many companies in the industry. It is around 10 years old. The company’s Light … Read more
David Rahn is from Alcons Audio, which was a sponsor of the event. He said that Alcons is a Dutch company that is a leader in the loudspeaker world in technology. It has a ribbon-based sound system. Film-maker, David Lynch, said that movies are 50% visual and 50% audio, but can be more than 50%. … Read more
Bill Beck returned as a representative of his employer, Barco, to talk about laser cinema going mainstream. He started by saying that all Premium Large Format (PLF) cinemas would be dominated by Laser RGB, because of image quality, operation simplicity and total cost of ownership (TCO). Laser Phosphor will also do well and that will … Read more
Jeevan Vivegananthan is from Christie and his topic was projection mapping. At the moment this is often used for large events and there are architectural mapping projects as well. Arenas such as basketball courts can be lit up and illuminated. Spaces can be changed also – there are quite a few in bars and casinos … Read more
Hiroki Masuda and Yuya Kurata are from JBMIA Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association, which has a group that looks after projection. One sub-group looks after laser and the JBMIA sees that Laser Illuminated Projection Systems (LIPS) have many benefits. When you legislate, there are three factors to consider – each has its … Read more
Bill Beck was wearing his hat as a representative of the Laser Illuminated Projector Association (LIPA). It is the fifth anniversary of LIPA and he covered the association and its development. In the 1970s, laser was seen as dangerous because of laser light shows, so they were regulated. However, lasers in projectors are different and … Read more
Walter Burgess is from Power Technology which develops laser light sources for really bright projectors, in the 50K-60K lumens range. The company won a US government project to research the removal of speckle from lasers and learned a lot in the process. The firm has been showing its laser sources with projectors from others including … Read more
Markus Ries of Lang Ag in Germany liked the slide from Compound Photonics (DS6 Compound Photonics Challenges Projector Makers) that said that projector makers do not listen to customers. He explained that Lang is a rental and A/V company based in Germany, near Cologne. The company works with flat panel displays, but is also interested … Read more
Tim Anderson is the VP of Product Management from Compound Photonics which is “the largest projection company that you have never heard of”, as it has been, somewhat, in stealth mode. The company has been developing a number of projectors including a small 1080P unit (with a volume of 2 cc), 4K engines and 4K … Read more
The last speaker in the first session was Rod Sterling, Chief Engineer of JVC Kenwood, who spoke about HDR projection. He pointed out that most of the morning had been spent on flat panels. Projectors can get up to 1 million to 1 contrast using dual modulation (an image generator and a light source modulator), … Read more
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