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Blackmagic Design Announces New Cintel Scanner Light Source

by Artem Alekseenko

Blackmagic Design announced a technology demonstration at NAB 2022 of a new high intensity light source for Cintel film scanners that lets customers get better quality from scanned film and much higher film scanning …

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Some Canon Projectors Still Lamp-Based

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Canon WUX5800 projector The external appearance of all six new projectors is identical. (Credit: Canon) Canon Europe unveiled a portfolio of LCOS projectors featuring a revamped, compact design with higher luminance and WUXGA resolution. …

Philips’ HLD Technology Offers Compelling Value Proposition

by Chris Chinnock

In lower lumen projection solutions, there are two common illumination options. One is the laser phosphor solution which uses a blue laser and a yellow phosphor wheel to create RGB light and the other …

Digital Signage Week in New York

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Digital Signage Week in New York was like a trade show without a convention center – every company supplied its own venue. I managed to make it to four different companies’ locations during the …

US DoE: LED Superior to OLED in Energy Efficiency Stakes

by Andrew Fenn

The US Department of Energy has released its Solid-State Lighting R&D plan for 2017, containing its estimations regarding improvements in energy efficiency and projected power savings. The document states that the DoE expects warm-white …

RIP HID Lamps

by Matthew Brennesholtz

In honor of it’s 50th anniversary, Photonics Spectra conducted a poll of its readers. One of the questions was what technologies did the readers believe would be outdated or no longer in use a …

Epson 975W Projector Has 10K Hours Lamp Life

by Bob Raikes

Epson US has announced the PowerLite 975W projector – Epson’s first classroom projector to offer up to a 10,000-hour lamp life in Bright Mode1. The unit features 3,600 lumens of color brightness and 1280 …

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DS08 Power Technology is Developing Light Farms

by Bob Raikes

Walter Burgess is from Power Technology which develops laser light sources for really bright projectors, in the 50K-60K lumens range. The company won a US government project to research the removal of speckle from …

Sony Digital Cinema Not Ready to Embrace Laser Projection Yet

by Chris Chinnock

Sony’s Digital Cinema group was at CinemaCon 2016, but it did not announce any new projection products. While the company says it is working on laser-based solutions for cinema, it says the current lamp-based …

The End of More Glass and Vacuum Technologies

by Bob Raikes

I made reference in my talk at the Nuremberg conference to Paul Gray’s “end of glass, vacuum and metal” (GVM) technology and over the last couple of weeks, I have seen lots of stories …

TREASORES Develops Thin, Flexible Electrodes

by Tom Allen

The TREASORES project ((Transparent Electrodes for Large Area Large Scale Production of Organic Optoelectronic Devices) is a European project, established in late 2012, aiming to develop technologies to reduce the production costs of certain …

Cree Achieves ‘Incandescent’ LED Quality at High LPW

by Tom Allen

Cree has demonstrated a high- brightness and high-efficiency LED, which delivers almost 1,600 lumens at 134 lumens-per-Watt (LPW). Colour quality is said to be similar to that of an incandescent light bulb. The result …