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Samsung Display, the largest producer of OLED and LCD electronic display panels in the world, today released key details about its new Flexible AMOLED display— the most advanced in the mobile industry – now being used on Galaxy S®6 edge smartphones. A technical backgrounder immediately follows. “We are witnessing enormous interest in our leading-edge Flexible … Read more
Dolby showed off elements of its HDR production workflow at NAB 2015 as well as content playing on the new HDR TVs from Vizio. These TVs were announced at CES 2014 and are late to arrive – and, in fact, are still not available to purchase. There are two models in the UHD Reference Series … Read more
Canon used NAB 2015 to show it HDR workflow as well as some new HDR monitors. It also introduced a new 15 f-stop camera, the C300 Mark II. To showcase all of this, it set up a DI suite in a dark theater. A dimly illuminated scene was set up and acquired with the C300 … Read more
goHDR is a UK-based company that was at NAB 2015 to describe and show its HDR encoding solution. The company demonstrated real time capture, encode/decode and display of HDR content on an HDR display. goHDR is developing an approach that it will propose to the Cost Action Group (IC 105), a European union of companies … Read more
Amazon used NAB to announce that it will be among the first to offer HDR content through its Amazon Prime Video service. These will arrive sometime in 2015. Amazon is producing it own original content and is working “Hollywood studios, leading technology innovators and global consumer electronics companies to bring Prime members and customers an … Read more
We had a chance to meet with Technicolor in a suite at NAB 2015 to learn more about its plans for HDR. At NAB, the company was mainly talking about what it is doing for content creation, but it is also involved in the UHD Alliance to determine HDR distribution standards and have a stake … Read more
At NAB 2015, Canon was showing of its newest camera: the C300 Mark II that has an incredible 15 f-stops of capture range. Very little information was available, but we did see a demo of the camera capturing a scene in very low illumination. The photo below shows the scene captured on my smartphone. Ambient … Read more
SuperD CEO Michael Hsu was at NAB to talk about his company’s prowess in 3D technology and to encourage consumers to use 3D more often. In his presentation in the 3D session organized by the Advanced Imaging Society, he started out by citing some statistics about use of 3D in China. In the theatrical space, … Read more
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (Samsung), has announced that the GearTM VR Innovator Edition for S 6, compatible with both the Samsung Galaxy S® 6 and Galaxy S® 6 edge, will be available for preorder starting Friday, April 24 at BestBuy.com, and available for purchase online at Samsung.com/GearVR and BestBuy.com on Friday, May 8. Powered by … Read more
In a special session on glasses-free 3D at NAB, we had a chance to hear a presentation from China-based Global 3D Media and see some of its handheld products. While it is a Chinese company, it now has R&D groups in the US as well as Germany that have developed a patent portfolio of over … Read more
We met with StreamTV at CES where the company told us about its progress in the manufacture of glasses-free 3DTVs and new initiatives in broadcast and gaming. At NAB, we had a chance to get another update from Duncan Humphries. We started by taking a look at its 65” 3DTV. The company has done a … Read more
Christie used NAB to showcase its latest projectors and announce a new name for its RGB laser source: Freedom. This source can deliver laser illumination by fiber optics to a projector head in 5000 lumen increments up to 60,000 lumens. The three projector heads the company now offers include: The DCI compliant Cinema projection head … Read more
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