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Samsung Focuses on 8K, AI, IoT and 5G at IFA

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung generated plenty of pre-IFA news when the media started reporting on the 8K TV banners hanging around the IFA fairgrounds. The company did not disappoint, revealing its plans to roll out 8K TV …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD (4KTV)| Upscaling| Vol 25 - Issue 34

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SID 2018 Show Floor Roundup

by Bob Raikes

3M was at the show to demonstrate how its films could be used to reduce the power taken by TVs and monitors, which are increasingly being made to support HDR and high levels of …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Displays| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2018| Touch| Upscaling| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Deep Image Prior Fixes Image Quality

by Bob Raikes

Deep Image Prior is an interesting technology for improving resolution and fixing images that have been damaged, for example, by having text superimposed, high levels of noise or corrupted. The technique uses neural networks, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Upscaling| Vol 24 - Issue 47

Is Improved Scaling the Key to the 8K Content Void?

by Chris Chinnock

I have been thinking more about 8K recently. Many will agree that the increase from 4K to 8K pixels will be of marginal benefit for those watching TVs at standard distances on 65” TVs. …

Tags:Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Upscaling| Vol 24 - Issue 43

8K Production using HLG

by Chris Chinnock

Yuji Nagata from NHK gave a presentation describing an 8K HDR broadcast workflow based on HLG. While trial broadcast of 8K content started in August of 2017 in Japan, this will expand to regular …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Large Display Monitor| NHK| SMPTE 2017| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Upscaling| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Epson Lowers Cost of UHD

by Tom Allen

Two new 3LCD projectors have been launched by Epson, bringing UltraHD imagery to an affordable price point. The EH-TW8300 and TW9300 (also available with wireless connectivity: TW9300W) output 1920 x 1080 natively, but use …

Tags:Epson| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| Upscaling

Marseille’s Cable Upscales to 4k

by Tom Allen

Upscaling HDMI cables, which contain chips to scale content from 1920 x 1080 to UltraHD, have been available for some time, but not widespread. We have previously reported on a $40 cable from Seiki, …

Tags:Cables| CEDIA 2015| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Technicolor| Upscaling| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Faroudja Improves Quality Algorithms

by Tom Allen

Bandwidth restoration – before. Click for a larger image. Faroudja Enterprises, founded by industry veteran Yves Faroudja, demonstrated image quality improvement technologies to ‘protect the visual beauty of content from SD to UltraHD for …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Upscaling| Video Quality| Visual Quality| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Motion on a Samsung 120Hz TV compared to the Vizio 240Hz TV.

Vizio Launches P-Series UHD TVs

by Matt Brennesholtz Don't Use

Beyond HD – At CES earlier this year, Vizio announced its new P-series of UltraHD Smart TVs. On September 23rd, the product line was launched, with the TVs starting to ship immediately. I had …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Upscaling| Vizio| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21