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SRI International Shows Visual Broadcast Test Methods at SMPTE

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

Unparalleled Learning in Stereo 3D

Professor Vikash Patel

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

Aries Epica Launches Autostereoscopic Products

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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

NanoMarkets Issues Report on Transparent Displays

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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

Pebble Has Sold 250,000 Smartwatches So Far

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

4K and UHDTV Confusion Calamity

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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

Vefxi Designs ASIC for 2D to 3D Conversion

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3D – VEFXI the Oregon-based 3D technology company is changing direction to address the 3D entertainment market. So far the developer of 2D to 3D conversion software has been focused on aftermarket boxes aimed at the consumer market. In the current market for home entertainment, 3D TV sets are not exactly a marketing highlight, however … Read more

Dolby Atmos for Home Theater Now Available

Dolby Atmos enabled integrated speakers include both traditional front-firing speakers and upward-firing speakers. Both sets of speakers have their own binding posts to connect to your AVR.

Display Accessories – Last June after CE Week, I wrote an article on Dolby Atmos coming to home theater. While it was demonstrated at CE week, it was not actually available then. At the recent CEDIA Expo 2014, September 10 – 13 in Denver, Colorado, the availability of the Audio/Video Receivers (AVR) and speakers needed … Read more

Epson Introduces 4K Laser Phosphor Projector at CEDIA

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Projectors – Home Entertainment – At the recent CEDIA Expo 2014, September 10 – 13 in Denver, Colorado, Epson introduced two new projector series for home cinema. One series is laser phosphor and the other uses a conventional lamp. Epson R-HTPS device The first series includes the Pro Cinema LS9600e or LS10000 projector. These projectors … Read more

Klatz Shows Smartbracelet

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Wearable – We have talked about wearables in all forms and functions but now Klatz, a Delaware-based start-up company, is proposing a smartbracelet that acts not only as a timepiece, but also as a smartphone handset. The device is also called Klatz and works via a bluetooth connection as an extension of the users smartphone. Source: … Read more