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Lytro, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) encountered difficulty in achieving adoption of light field technology in consumer cameras. None-the-less, the technology still has great potential for imaging in cinema and visual effects applications. To address these applications, the company developed and has just debuted a new camera product called the Lytro Cinema. If the basics of … Read more
Looking to improve the passenger in-flight entertainment experience, aerospace company Thales (France) has developed a 21.3-inch HD LCD touchscreen display system that is designed to fit into the back side of an airplane seat. The system is called Digital Sky. A working prototype of the system has been demonstrated in a mock-up cabin. It was … Read more
Christie has released four new projectors in a GS series which we reported on briefly at the Prolight & Sound event (Christie Highlights Reduced Noise of L/P Projectors). These are single-chip DLP models with a laser phosphor light source. What is a bit different about them is the color gamut, which meets the Rec. 709 … Read more
Christie Digital was at CinemaCon to showcase it projectors, signage solutions, managed services and audio solutions. Christie, Barco and NEC – the primary cinema projector suppliers, are all now offering in-lobby signage solutions and expanding products and services in the cinema market – a trend that has been on-going for a few years and is … Read more
Visual collaboration pioneer InFocus Corporation (www.infocus.com) announces Kangaroo Mobile Desktop Pro, the new smart-phone sized desktop PC. The Windows 10 Home Kangaroo Pro revolutionizes the PC market by taking the original Windows 10 Kangaroo Mobile Desktop PC and adding expanded features and connectivity to unlock a variety of new uses, making it unique from any … Read more
Imagine Communications, empowering the media and entertainment industry through transformative innovation, today introduced Selenio™ One, a unified software-based platform designed to empower today’s service providers and content distributors with the ability to control, manage, scale and evolve current and future compression operations and capabilities across multiple target applications. Innovatively designed to handle a broad spectrum … Read more
John Archer is a writer for Forbes, specialising in home entertainment technology. Recently, he reviewed Samsung’s 55″ KS9500 TV – not a flagship SUHD model, but still a new set for 2016. In the process, Archer discovered issues with Samsung’s edge lighting that, combined with HDR, have a negative impact on the viewing experience. In … Read more
To celebrate the arrival of its transparent OLED Lucid Vue display, Crystal Display Systems will hold a roadshow in London at the end of the month. Interested parties should email Meghan Mudge on [email protected].
I made reference in my talk at the Nuremberg conference to Paul Gray’s “end of glass, vacuum and metal” (GVM) technology and over the last couple of weeks, I have seen lots of stories that feed that idea. The first of these technologies to be (largely) replaced by transistors was the thermionic valve (or tube … Read more
Nanosys has brought the legal system to bear against QD Vision in the USA, for patent infringement. Nanosys’ lawsuit alleges that QD Vision’s products infringe upon its photoluminescent QD materials and related methods. The suit also claims that QD Vision’s ‘inferior copies’ threaten the quantum dot market, by creating confusion amongst customers and casting doubt … Read more
Click to enlargeFairlight, the University of Salford and DTS have worked together to develop a new approach to assist sound engineers with live sports productions. The SALSA (Spatial Automated Live Sports Audio) tool is a real-time automated mixing process, which identifies the location of specific sound events from a grid of pitch microphones. The algorithm … Read more
Acer’s new P-Series consists of four DLP projectors, three of which will go on sale in the UK. Designed for board rooms, the range can reach a 144Hz refresh rate when showing 24fps content. Each model (P6200, P6200S, P6500 and P6600) has an ambient light sensor and six-segment colour wheel. They also use Acer’s ColourSafe … Read more
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