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Timeline Develops Europe’s First OB Truck

UK-based outside broadcast service provider, Timeline, has built what it says is the first purpose-built UltraHD outside broadcast truck (OBT) in Europe. The company has won a four-year contract from BT Sport to provide its new OBT to the broadcaster. Timeline will launch the unit in August; it will be available for rental when not … Read more

Digital TV Hits 1 Billion

The digital TV market grew by about 455 million homes between 2010 and 2014, according to Digital TV Research. The increase means that there are now more than 1 billion digital TV households across the 138 countries covered by DTVR. Penetration rose from 40.5% to 67.2%. 111 million of the new homes came from a … Read more

Rockwell Collins Does Optical Bonding – with a Curve

Optical bonding is one of the best ways to reduce reflections from a display and provide high contrast, full color viewing – even in high ambient light environments. But not all bonding methods are created equal. Rockwell Collins appears to have one of the better approaches and it stepped up its game a bit at … Read more

SeeReal Shows Electronic Holographic Display

The end game for most display enthusiasts is an electronic holographic display that provides no-glasses 3D viewing with high resolution and vertical and horizontal parallax. In other words – a display that is so good you might not be sure if it is real or not. The path to a true electronic holographic display (not … Read more

DLP Prism Design with Higher Contrast

The 1-chip DLP engine design uses two back-to-back prisms to allow light to couple light in and out of the DMD chip. The design is quite mature but it has an inherent contrast limitation. A revised design evaluated by The National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan was described in paper 35.4. The new paper builds … Read more

University of Waterloo Investigates Pixel Shifting for Projection

One of the technologies that JVC has focused on is its e-Shift technology. This uses an optical element to project one image and then shift the optical path a half pixel in the diagonal direction to project a second image. This is done at a 120 Hz rate or 60 fps per combined image. The … Read more

Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update (WF10)

Following the session and panel discussion with five speakers moderated by Jack Kent of IHS titled What are Wearables for Anyway, the Display Week 2015 Market Focus Conference – Wearables-Flexible proceeded to an overview of the market for flexible and wearable displays delivered by Paul Gray of IHS. Gray’s first graphic (below) neatly summed up … Read more

Incom Shows Innovations with Polymer Fiber Optic Faceplates

Last October I had a chance to visit with Incom, and write about this manufacturer of fused fiber optic faceplates. The faceplates are composed of thousands of tiny fiber optics densely packed together – dozens per pixel – to transport the display image from the bottom of the faceplate to the top of it. That … Read more

Sony Describes New Laser Phosphor Projector Improvements

In paper 25.2 (High-Brightness Solid-State Source for 4K Ultra-Short Throw Projector), Sony described improvements they have made to the laser phosphor material that will improve projector brightness and lifetime. This is destined for their 4K short-throw projector that is used in homes and professional applications, but it will not be implemented in products until the … Read more