IFA 2017 – Display Daily

QH09 TV SoC HDR Processing

by Chris Chinnock

Erwin Bellers from Sigma Designs was the last speaker of the day and he came to discuss HDR processing in TVs and how Sigma is incorporating HDR10+ in its new SoC, He started by …

QH08 ST 2094-40 for Next Generation Broadcasting

by Chris Chinnock

Bill Mandel then gave a second presentation mainly prepared by his colleague, Jon Fairhurst. This talk began with an overview of some of the benefits of the ATSC 3.0 format with the expectation that …

QH07 HDR10 Plus – Beyond HDR10

by Chris Chinnock

Bill Mandel of the Samsung Research Center in Irvine, California helped deliver a presentation co-authored with Yeong Taeg Kim that provided more insight into the HDR10+ standard. Samsung’s dynamic metadata approach has been standardized …

QH06 Overview of HDR

by Chris Chinnock

Chris Chinnock began the focused discussion on HDR10/10+ by delivering an overview on HDR for attendees who were not too familiar with the terms, principle and standards around HDR. This started with an explanation …

QH05 Current state of HDR Calibration for Post-Production, Broadcast, and Home Entertainment Displays

by Chris Chinnock

Marcel Gonska from the SpectraCal division of Portrait Displays started his presentation by noting that professional monitors with different display technologies need slight different calibration procedures. RGB OLEDs for example, use a Judd modified …

QH05 QD & OLED Supply Chain Analysis

by Chris Chinnock

Chris Chinnock returned to deliver a presentation prepared by Display Supply Chain Consultants, Ross Young and Bob O’Brien, as they were unable to attend. On the supply side, DSCC makes the point that quantum …

QH04 Quantum Dots On LEDs and MicroLEDs

by Chris Chinnock

Peter Palomaki used to work for QD Vision, but he is now a quantum dot materials consultant. His presentation started with a review of some of the quantum dot architectures along with their strengths …

QH03 Quantum Dot Color Filters for Photoemissive Displays

by Chris Chinnock

Brian Gally from Nanoco described an exciting new QD architecture where the quantum dots are placed in the color filters of the LCD and not in a sheet (and that we first reported on …

QH02 Bright Cd-free Quantum Dots

by Chris Chinnock

Hyosook Jang from Samsung Institute of Advanced Technology (SAIT) started her presentation with an overview of the history of quantum dot development, starting way back in the 1980s. Samsung started showing prototypes of QLED …

QH01 Overview of Quantum Dots

by Chris Chinnock

The QLED and HDR10+ Summit at IFA was organized by Insight Media with sponsorship from Samsung Electronics. It ran on September 1 at the Waldorf Astoria Berlin hotel and attracted over 100 industry professionals …

IFA & IBC Offer Different Views on the TV Industry

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this week’s editorial in the press room of IBC – the overload from IFA caused our production of the regular weekly issue to slip so, frustratingly, I have been head down over …

IFA Busy with OLEDs and HDR

by Bob Raikes

We’ve got to the end of another IFA. The show was interesting but is not as interesting from a technology point of view as CES – and there’s a reason for this. Because of …