Philips Introduces “Safe Blue” Desktop Monitor at IFA
Philips introduced a new technology that eliminates “harmful” blue light from LED backlights, while still giving a colour balance that looks complete
Philips introduced a new technology that eliminates “harmful” blue light from LED backlights, while still giving a colour balance that looks complete
PPI Perceptive Pixel Display July 2012 shown running Win8, Source: AllthingsD.com Emerging Technology – Down Australia way it’s the end of a long winter and coming into spring, a fitting place for news of a resurgence of the somewhat dormant Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI) now owned by Microsoft (MS.) There we heard the recent revelation … Read more
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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