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Quanta Computer and Compal both reported sequential increases in sales last month, with Quanta rising 45.5% to NT$80 billion ($2.6 billion) and Compal seeing a 37.3% rise to NT$74.9 billion ($2.4 billion). Quanta’s sales in the first three months of the year reached NT$205.2 billion ($6.6 billion), which was almost 5% lower than the same … Read more
Analogue switch-off will begin in Brazil this November. 93% of households must have access to digital TV before switch-off can proceed.
Members of the Xbox Preview programme in the USA and Canada can now start watching live TV through their console. Xbox owners will need to buy an OTA TV tuner from Hauppauge, as well as an HDTV antenna. Microsoft says that it is developing an official tuner with Hauppauge that will debut in the coming … Read more
Jonathan Erland used the Technology Summit on Cinema to run a 30-minute video on the goals and activities of the Pickfair Institute. Most of the video is captured and available below. Erland is a 50-year industry veteran who has for decided to form the Pickfair Institute to advance cinematic options, but most particularly what he … Read more
At NAB 2015, DTS announced a new immersive sound solution aimed at theaters as well as consumer use called DTS:X. This appears to be a re-branding of the company’s previously developed Multi-Dimensional Audio (MDA) platform. In theaters, it will now compete directly with Barco’s Auro3D and Dolby Atmos, and indirectly with IMAX and its current … Read more
In July 2014, I had a chance to visit RealD’s Boulder facility and to learn more about its TrueImage processing technology (see RealD’s TrueImage Technology is Pretty Amazing). At NAB 2015, RealD announced that TrueImage is now available as an Amazon Cloud-based service through Sundog Media. The above article provides a lot of detail on … Read more
Next-Generation Technology Gives Content Creators, Cinema and Home Theater Owners More Control than Ever; Audiences Will Experience the Richest, Most Realistic Soundscape Possible DTS, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTSI), a global leader in audio technology solutions, has unveiled further details about DTS:X, its open, next-generation, object-based, multi-dimensional audio technology. DTS:X replicates a real-world sound environment that transports … Read more
With laser projectors, three very narrow primaries create a very large color gamut that is very close to the 2020 color gamut. But research has shown that with very narrow primaries, people can perceive a certain color differently – something that does not happen with displays that have spectrally broad primaries used in a Xenon … Read more
A panel discussion at the Technology Summit for Cinema featured IMAX CQO, David Keighley and Jan Yarbrough, Senior Colorist, Motion Picture Imaging at Warner Bros. Both were in agreement that theaters are often too dim and the industry should do a better job of ensuring that theaters offer the prescribed 14 FtL (48nits) of peak … Read more
The SMPTE-organized Technology Summit on Cinema at NAB kicked off with a panel on the lessons learned in the transition from film to digital. Here, panels noted that the idea of moving to digital film delivery really started to be taken seriously back in 1995, so 20 years ago. For the next five years, SVGA … Read more
That’s not exactly the message that RealD’s Pete Lude wanted to convey in his talk at the Technology Summit on Cinema, but it is was the something that exhibitors and projector makers should be considering. Why? Because in a exhaustive study of the sources of contrast degradation in a theater, having a million to one … Read more
Amazon is to follow in the footsteps of Netflix, rolling out high dynamic range content this year. Prime customers in the USA, UK and Germany will be the first to receive the HDR programming, which will initially be limited to Amazon Originals.
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