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Emerging Technology – A cooperative group of scientists in South Korea from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Components and Materials Research Laboratory at ETRI, and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has developed a new graphene-based transparent film that is conductive and also stretchable. The new film contains a … Read more
MPEG-H is a new about-to-be adopted standard that offers object oriented audio for TVs and mobile devices. It was demonstrated at the SMPTE Fall conference and is vying to be included in the next generation broadcast standard – ATSC 3.0
Dolby was at the SMPTE Fall conference in Hollywood demonstrating its High Dynamic Range (HDR) solution — from camera through post, distribution and to the home. HDR was a topic of great interest at the event, including the new SMPTE standard to map the gray scales of HDR content to a display (ST-2084)
Virtualization means different things to different people. At Harmonic, the idea is to move away from dozens of dedicated hardware boxes in a broadcast facility to a topology where the Harmonic IP and functionality reside in standard server compute platforms that can sit in the facility and/or the cloud.
Central China Development Labs (CCDL) was at the SMPTE Fall conference where it made a big impression with its 3D LED screen using polarization.
SRI International offers test patterns that can look at bit depth, chroma sampling, frame rates, conversions, audio sync and much more – and provide visual feedback on compliance and errors.
SRI International offers test patterns that can look at bit depth, chroma sampling, frame rates, conversions, audio sync and much more – and provide visual feedback on compliance and errors. Driving the system is their newly introduced Sarnoff TG-400 test sequence generator for content creators, broadcasters, and distributors to verify the quality of 4Kp60 digital … Read more
3D in Education After penning Nevada State College Flies High with 3D, I decided to pay a site visit to the venerable college. That’s because it’s always good to test one’s assumptions against hard reality. So, hoping to see 3D in action, hoping to determine if these undergraduate classrooms were indeed using stereo 3D in … Read more
3DTV – The Aries Epic Group (Dubai) is a consortium of independent firms with global headquarters in the Middle East and subsidiaries in India and Singapore. Under the Aries Epica brand name, the company is introducing a range of autostereoscopic display products. According to Jeemon Pulley, managing director at subsidiary Epica, the company launched a … Read more
Market Intelligence – Transparent displays are certainly not on the top of the list of exciting display technologies. However, with Samsung and LG introducing transparent displays for professional markets, there is some question of the market potential for this technology. So far the transparent panels were marketed toward applications in retail or appliances like refrigerator … Read more
Smartwatch – Pebble was one of the first smartwatch devices from a start-up company that got into the wearable business early on. Since then Pebble has become a smartwatch made for the technology enthusiast. At a recent developer retreat, CEO Eric Migicovsky spilled some of the beans about his company’s development. Migicovsky mentioned that the company has … Read more
As with any new technology, there is often a clash between the engineering developers and the marketeers. (To this day, one my pet peeves continues to be the way audio amplifier power is defined, but that’s another story.) Ultra-High Definition Television, unfortunately, continues that trend. What the term actually means, and how it is modified, … Read more
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