QD Vision Highlights Quantum Dot Advantages
Interview between Matt Mazzuchi of QD Vision and Bob Raikes of Display Daily at IFA 2014 on the TCL stand. Mazzuchi explains the advantages of QD Vision’s technology.
A New Means to Display 3D Images at a Long Distance
3D – A team of researchers at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (Kanagawa, Japan) headed by Masahiro Suzuki are addressing an interesting issue in 3D technology: development of a display system that is capable of presenting 3D imagery at a long distance. In the context of this work, a “long distance” means up to hundreds … Read more
IMID by the Numbers
Technology – The Korean Information Display Society’s International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) has been held each year since 2001, mostly in Daegu, South Korea — a large commercial city known, a tour guide said, for apples, beautiful women and being the place where Samsung got its start. The venue this year, as it has … Read more
The End of ITO Dominance is in Sight
Materials, Manufacturing and Components – Indium Tin Oxide, or ITO, is a key material for making displays. It is a transparent conductive material that applies voltage to the clear aperture in the LCD and provides the transparent electrodes for touch screens as well. Alternative solutions by a number of companies are in development, and these … Read more
Raising the Ante: Smartur3D
3D in Education – To date we have counted 33 major software producers of stereo 3D educational content, worldwide. Now there are 34. A new arrival to the 3D educational software scene, Smartur3D, turned some heads at the recent ISTE conference and is raising the ante for educational 3D with both their unique educational value … Read more
Neuroscience Altering the Way Moving Images are Produced
Technology – One of the human factors that has always been extremely relevant to display technology is the way that images are perceived in the brain. In addition to the art and technology of producing static and moving pictures, the neuroscience of perception has slowly caught up in film and video production. Recent studies, however, … Read more
How Many Pixels are Enough?
TV makers and retailers are revving up their ultra-high definition (UHD) awareness programs. Thus, as night follows day, critics are intensifying their argument that UHD (or 4Kx2K) television cannot be distinguished from today’s full-high-definition or FHD (or 2Kx1K) television at the distances American and European viewers typically watch TVs in their rooms. This argument is … Read more
Telstra to acquire Ooyala for cloud-based TV and video
Telstra to acquire Ooyala to build leading personalized cloud-based TV and video platform company Telstra’s investment enables Ooyala to accelerate growth and extend market lead as highly capitalized, independently operated business SYDNEY and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (August 7, 2014) — Telstra, one of the largest telecommunications and information services companies in the world, and Ooyala, … Read more
TV TEM in Brazil Expands Over-The-Air DTV Network with GatesAir
Broadcast & Distribution – GatesAir, a global leader in over-the-air broadcast solutions for television and radio, is expanding TV TEM’s ISDB-Tb digital television network to cover an additional 139 cities in the state of São Paulo. The current installation marks the third phase of an aggressive single-frequency network (SFN) rollout that will bring exceptional HDTV … Read more
NHK to show High Frame Rate 8k TV at IBC2014
Beyond HD – NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is planning to show high frame rate (HFR) 8K (UHD-2 7680 x 4320) TV at the upcoming IBC2014 in Amsterdam September 12 – 16. NHK has shown 8K many times before, including an exhibit at IBC 2006. ITU Rec. 2020 calls 8K UHD-2, which has 4x the pixel … Read more
AMOLED Market will grow rapidly by annual average of 32% from 2016
It is forecast that the AMOLED market will show rapid growth with an annual average growth rate of 32% from 2016. According to “H1 2014 Half AMOLED Report” by market research firm, UBI Research, (we don’t know this analyst – Man. Ed.) the AMOLED market will be about $10 billion in 2014. With an average … Read more
Nielsen says DOOH Beats TV!
A new analysis of reported Nielsen data, conducted by the Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA), reveals that digital place based (DPB) networks deliver more impressions among 18-49 year-olds on a monthly basis compared to the top 25 network primetime shows and top 20 basic cable networks in the US.
