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Oculus Rift: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?

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Personal Eyewear – Since 2012, Display Central has published roughly 60 articles that discuss the Oculus Rift. I’ve reviewed most of them and not one of them mentions the terrible image quality produced by the head mounted virtual reality (VR) system. A more common type of headline is “Oculus Rift at SXSW: Is Virtual Reality … Read more

Update on 4K Cameras from CCW

Camera/Camcorders – I had a chance to visit several manufacturers of 4K cameras at the recent CCW 2014 (Content and Communications World) in New York November 12 – 13 and get updates on cameras I had written about before, after the presentation for SMPTE. The JVC representative said the GY-LS300 camera, a compact 4k camera … Read more

New Metric for Absolute Color Accuracy

Display Metrology – A new display color accuracy metric was developed by DisplayMate and used by the lab, to help identify the mobile display panel with absolute color accuracy. The lab made famous by its Industry Display Shoot-Outs, tested AMOLED and LCD display panels from a field of the Top Six Mobile Display Devices and … Read more

Samsung Note 4 Wins Display Color Accuracy Shoot-Out

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Mobile Display – Once again Samsung OLED display panel struts its stuff claiming the top Display Color Accuracy prize in the latest shoot-out data from Dr. Ray Soneira’s DisplayMate labs. Soneira announced: “The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is the winner in Absolute Color Accuracy, coming in first place in all categories in its Basic Screen … Read more

Adder’s IP-based KVM Solutions Solving Post Production Problems

Broadcast & Distribution – At CCW (Content and Communications World), we had a chance to take a more careful look at Adder’s KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) extension solutions. KVM extension is needed when computers or servers are located in one location and the keyboard, mouse and monitor are located somewhere else. For example, edit … Read more

Acer’s October Sales Down MoM

Acer saw sales for October drop 9.25% sequentially to NT$28.2 billion ($921.6 million), though this was slightly higher year on year. Sales for the period from January to October were 9.5% lower than the same period of 2013 at NT$272.4 billion ($8.9 billion). The company has also released its third quarter results, recording its third … Read more

Large Panel Shipments Fell 1% MoM

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A total 22.5 million large panels were shipped in October from Taiwan’s four major panel manufacturers. This was just under 1% lower than the previous month but represented a year on year improvement of 14.4%. The total number of large panels shipped so far this year from Taiwan reached 217.4 million, a 1.7% increase from … Read more

Quantel Introduces Live Touch for Instant Replay

Broadcast & Distribution – Quantel has a nice presence in the sports broadcasting segment where its Enterprise sQ servers are used to store live video feeds on a frame by frame basis. This allows for instant editing. And, since these servers are networked over fiber Ethernet connections, editing can be done in one location, content … Read more

ATSC 3.0 Could Make Broadcast Spectrum Auction Attractive to Broadcasters

Broadcast & Distribution – At CCW, a panel of experts discussed the details of the ATSC 3.0 development program – an effort to replace the existing over the air system with a new one that will provide the features and technology to last for another 20 years. And as panelists noted, they are seeing broad … Read more

An Interesting Display Application: Virtual Balconies

Large Displays – Apparently, cruise ship passengers having an interior room can sometimes find their in-cabin experience a bit claustrophobic. Not surprisingly, one reason for this is the lack of an outside view. Royal Caribbean is addressing this issue in a unique way: with the instillation of so-called virtual balconies. A virtual balcony is based … Read more

October Sales Suggest Record Christmas

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) says that its findings in the latest BRC-KPMG Online Retail Sales Monitor for October suggest another record online Christmas this year. Online sales represented 18.2% of total sales in the non-food category last month, its highest penetration level since Christmas 2013. The overall electrical sector performed strongly, though the AV … Read more