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After several years of successive gains, the MEA tablet market recorded its first-ever YoY decline in Q1’15, says IDC. Shipments fell 5.8%, to just over 3.8 million units. IDC said that the lower performance was caused by a sharp decline in Turkey – the region’s largest tablet market – where shipments were almost halved from … Read more
Italy’s communications regulator, Agcom, has said that the country is unlikely to meet the 2020 deadline for turning the 700MHz spectrum over to the telecoms sector. Agcom’s Vincenzo Lobianco said that a switch to DVB-T2 would be long and expensive. He added that even a 2022 deadline would be “challenging”.
Leaked emails from Sony show that Apple has been licensing the company’s UltraHD content for testing purposes since 2013. Although not earth-shattering, it does show that Apple is interested in the format – which is still not supported on the Apple TV STB. In fact, only the 5k iMac supports resolutions up to or above … Read more
Martin Chien is from Microlite Screen which has a new technology for projection screens for wide viewing angles. It is a new company, but Chien has more than ten years experience in screens. Projection is the cheapest display technology per diagonal inch, but there are drawbacks because of the problems of ambient light. You really … Read more
Ken Li is from Wavien and he started by introducing the company. The company develops IP in displays, especially in lamps and light sources.He talked about Wavien’s concept of putting laser-excited phosphor into liquid. Heat is an issue in laser-phosphor displays (LPDs) and liquid can help cool the phosphor. With careful design, you cold make … Read more
In questions about the different HDR formats that are being proposed, Talstra (Philips) said that standardisation is a bit slow, but everybody is worried about potential ‘format wars’ if there isn’t a clear standard for HDR. Thorpe (Canon) said that there is a big difference between the “real time” (broadcast) people who have a lot … Read more
Laurence (Larry) Thorpe of Canon gave a very “high bandwidth” talk and we hope we caught the main points! He addressed HDR but he also started by saying that Canon cannot separate HDR from wide colour gamut (WCG). Canon has been working closely within ACES, which is the format for content storage from the Academy … Read more
Miller Schuck is from RealD and he talked about contrast in the cinema. Laser projectors are here now – they can deliver good HDR, colour and really black blacks. Can 3D keep pace with 2D in this development, Schuck asked? RealD wants to make 3D cinema as good as 2D. In a cinema environment, lots … Read more
The first session at the Display Summit was on “Trends in High Dynamic Range Ecosystem” (sic). The first speaker was Joop Talstra who is from Philips where he is involved with standardisation. He started by explaining high dynamic range (HDR) and said that if you don’t have HDR, in many scenes you can clip highlights … Read more
Infocomm had a good buzz this year. It was the first Infocomm that this reporter has attended personally for around ten years. The event now sits in second place after ISE in terms of importance in the global A/V industry, which is testament to the work that the ISE team has done. However, Infocomm saw … Read more
At Infocomm, Philips announced it’s ColorSpark high lumen density (HLD) LED technology. (See the June 17 Display Daily) At the time, Philips said that both Coretronic and Hitachi would produce ColorSpark-based projectors, with the Coretronic appearing under the Optoma brand. Since then, I have learned more about both ColorSpark and the Coretronic/Optoma and Hitachi plans. … Read more
On June 17, TCL-IMAX, a joint venture formed by TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited and IMAX Corporation, held a press conference in Shanghai, China, during which it announced the launch of the IMAX Private Theatre “Palais”™. This product marks another important move by TCL Corporation in the home theatre market following the launch of its … Read more
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