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Timeline Develops Europe’s First OB Truck

by Tom Allen

UK-based outside broadcast service provider, Timeline, has built what it says is the first purpose-built UltraHD outside broadcast truck (OBT) in Europe. The company has won a four-year contract from BT Sport to provide …

NHK to Record Superbowl in 8k

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeAfter trials at the FIFA Women’s World Cup (NHK tests 8k at World Cup), NHK has said that it will be capturing more sporting events in 8k this year. Several Major League …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| NHK| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sigma Designs Result 11/06/2015

by Helen Vince

Sigma Designs Inc. narrowed its first quarter net loss to $382,000 from $9.9 million in Q1 of last year, while turnover increased 51.6% to $55.9 million from $36.9 million in the previous year.

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sigma Designs| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Digital TV Hits 1 Billion

by Tom Allen

The digital TV market grew by about 455 million homes between 2010 and 2014, according to Digital TV Research. The increase means that there are now more than 1 billion digital TV households across …

Rockwell Collins Does Optical Bonding – with a Curve

by Chris Chinnock

Optical bonding is one of the best ways to reduce reflections from a display and provide high contrast, full color viewing – even in high ambient light environments. But not all bonding methods are …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Optical Bonding| Rockwell Collins| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

SeeReal Shows Electronic Holographic Display

by Chris Chinnock

The end game for most display enthusiasts is an electronic holographic display that provides no-glasses 3D viewing with high resolution and vertical and horizontal parallax. In other words – a display that is so …

Tags:Holographic Displays| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

SeeFront Sees Success with Eye-Track 3D Display

by Chris Chinnock

SeeFront is a German company we have tracked for a number of years. The company develops eye-tracked autostereoscopic 3D displays for commercial applications. At SID 2015, we had a chance to catch up again …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

DLP Prism Design with Higher Contrast

by Chris Chinnock

The 1-chip DLP engine design uses two back-to-back prisms to allow light to couple light in and out of the DMD chip. The design is quite mature but it has an inherent contrast limitation. …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

University of Waterloo Investigates Pixel Shifting for Projection

by Chris Chinnock

One of the technologies that JVC has focused on is its e-Shift technology. This uses an optical element to project one image and then shift the optical path a half pixel in the diagonal …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pixel Processing| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update (WF10)

by Phillip Wright

Following the session and panel discussion with five speakers moderated by Jack Kent of IHS titled What are Wearables for Anyway, the Display Week 2015 Market Focus Conference – Wearables-Flexible proceeded to an overview …

Incom Shows Innovations with Polymer Fiber Optic Faceplates

by Chris Chinnock

Last October I had a chance to visit with Incom, and write about this manufacturer of fused fiber optic faceplates. The faceplates are composed of thousands of tiny fiber optics densely packed together – …

Tags:Fused Fibre Optics| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sony Describes New Laser Phosphor Projector Improvements

by Chris Chinnock

In paper 25.2 (High-Brightness Solid-State Source for 4K Ultra-Short Throw Projector), Sony described improvements they have made to the laser phosphor material that will improve projector brightness and lifetime. This is destined for their …

Tags:Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 24