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Mobile Display -LG Display said it will launch a new 0.7mm narrow bezel mobile display that boasts full HD (FHD) and with a bezel less than the thickness of a credit card it is targeting the smartphone market with its latest 5.3″ premium display. To achieve this, the company has developed what it calls Neo … Read more
4K – After Aldo Cugnini incisively dissected the question of what the 4K in 4K-TV actually means, you may have thought Display Daily was done with UHD-TV articles – at least for this week. Sorry. No such luck. UHD-TV remains in the news, in part because it is becoming mainstream much more quickly than most … Read more
4K – 4K Ultra HD TVs, as the CEA suggests calling the new TV sets, are aimed at increasing TV sales in consumer electronics markets around the world. As my colleague Aldo has explained, there is nothing straight forward about this new technology, including how we describe these new TVs. While market penetration starts to … Read more
Augmented Reality – We have talked before about applications for augmented reality in vertical markets as a potential first step into market entry. As a matter of fact, most smaller early developers of augmented reality headsets have placed most of their product focus on commercial applications. One of these vertical applications is the medical field. … Read more
Monitors – The LCD monitor market is in an interesting phase at the moment. The research division of Meko Ltd, the publisher of Display Daily, has been tracking monitor shipments in Europe for nearly 15 years. Things have changed a bit since we started. When we started, we tracked 15″, 17″, 19″ and 20″/21″ CRT … Read more
Business and Strategic: In case you missed it, Apple’s TV strategy became a bit clearer this month with the launch of its Developers’ Beta 2 version of iOS 8.1, (build 128407) as the company is now including the Apple Home Kit and targets the AppleTV as the “HomeKit hub”, (at least now as a testing … Read more
Pixel Processing & Control – At the NEC Showcase in New York on October 23rd, NEC partner Hiperwall Inc. (Irvine, CA) showed off its latest display control software. Hiperwall has a software solution for the control and coordination of multiple displays. Jeff Greenberg, CEO of Hiperwall, gave a seminar on the company’s products and gave … Read more
Broadcast & Distribution – That’s a question that Stephen Lampen, Belden Multimedia Technology Manager/Product Line Manager for Entertainment Products, is very concerned about. At the recent SMPTE Conference, he asked the audience during a presentation if anyone would install coax cabling in broadcast facilities going forward. No one raised their hands. He thinks that means … Read more
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.
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