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MMD Completes Ultraclear Series

MMD has developed a new UltraHD Philips monitor, which completes the company’s Ultraclear line-up with a smaller model. The 241P6VPJKEB is a 23.8″ unit, displaying 10-bit colour (8 bits + FRC) and covering 99% of the sRGB gamut. Multiview is built into the monitor, so two sources of video content can be viewed at the … Read more

High Resolution Without High Power Draw

Japan’s Kogakuin University, working with Fujitsu, has developed software that can scale smartphone video playback to UltraHD at 30fps, without consuming extra power. The new technology has been used in the ‘Xevic’ image processor of Fujitsu’s new Arrows NX F-02H phone. Image credit: Nikkei. Fujitsu’s phones (upper) with the non-linear signal processing method-based super-resolution technology … Read more

Previewing SXSWedu: 3D VR/AR Arrives

During the last decade, the very best ideas in education and technology could be scouted by attending or listening to a TED talk. Times have changed. Move over TED, because, in the U.S., the annual SXSWedu phenomenon has rapidly outpaced the TED talk as the most innovative, fresh, and prognostic venue for envisioning the future … Read more

Volkswagen Rolls out 3D Smart Glasses as Standard Equipment

VW smartglasses

A press release from VW in Germany, identifies smart glasses as device that will become ‘standard equipment’ at VW. Of course if you think your next Golf will come with smartglasses, think again. The news addresses the use of augmented reality glasses in the logistic area of VW. As VW states, “Plant logistics personnel are … Read more

Two Thirds of Black Friday Shoppers Holding Back on Planned Purchases for the Big Day

Almost two thirds (64%) of consumers stated they were holding back on planned purchases in the hope they might grab themselves a bargain during Black Friday according to the latest results from Voice of the Customer provider eDigitalResearch. It provides hard evidence to the theory that retailer sales have suffered in the weeks and months … Read more

Global ePaper Display Market 2016-2020

This market research report includes a detailed segmentation of the global E-paper display market by application (E-book reader, mobile displays, public displays, wearable technology, and retail) and by technology (flat screen, curved screen, bendable screens, and foldable screens). It outlines the market shares for key regions such as the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. The key … Read more

Tablets: Windows fast becoming a premium OS, says Strategy Analytics

It has been a long bumpy road for Windows Tablets but 2015 proved to be the year that Microsoft and its partner OEMs finally got Tablets right, according to the new “Tablet Operating System Forecast – Shipments, Installed Base & by Price Tier” report from Strategy Analytics’ Tablet & Touchscreen Strategies (TTS) service. Windows Tablet … Read more

Could P3 Be the Next Stage for WCG?

I seem to have spent a lot of the last few weeks talking about, looking at and thinking about display colour. Although we have published a huge amount about high dynamic range (HDR), with good reason, the same increase in bit depth that will be introduced to support HDR is going to allow better colour … Read more

AWE, China’s Biggest Home Appliance and Electronics Expo Invites you to Shanghai in March 2016

Appliance & Electronics World Expo (AWE) will be held in the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from March 9-12, 2016. The exhibition then will be more than 100,000 m2, with estimated 600 exhibitors and over 20,000 products. Product categories include: consumer electronics, environmental & healthy appliances, smart products, kitchen & bath appliances, white goods, accessories … Read more

Totoku Develops Per-Pixel Gamma Scale

Totoku, a division of JVC Kenwood, will be showing a new multimodality breast imaging display at RSNA 2015 (29th November – 4th December, Chicago). The CCL550i2 is a 21.3″, 5MP monitor, and is already FDA-approved. Gamma curves can be tricky to work with in medical displays. Greyscale screens should use the Dicom curve, while colour … Read more

ICDM Works to Revise UltraHD Specifications

We were recently alerted to a move by the SID’s International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM), which we heard is considering revising its Measurement Specifications for UltraHD TVs. The aim behind the move, we heard, is to prevent TV panels without 3840 horizontal lines of resolution from being sold as UltraHD. We questioned this with … Read more