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DS34 Nippon Seike Explains AR HUD Latency Challenges

by Bob Raikes

The final talk of the second day was from Dan Cashen of Nippon Sieke, one of the largest makers of HUDs globally. The company makes most of the HUDs in autos in Europe and …

Tags:Automotive| Display Summit 2016| Head Up Displays HUDs| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS33 TI Highlights DLP for HUDs

by Bob Raikes

Sam Martin is from TI where he works on DLP for automotive HUDs. TI has made three generations of prototype HUDs to better understand the requirements and help its customers. The field of view …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| DLP| Head Up Displays HUDs| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS32 Geo Explains Processing for HUDs

by Bob Raikes

Paul Russo is from Geo Semiconductor which makes processors for HUDs. He started by saying that once you have a remote control for your TV, you will want one for ever. The same applies …

Tags:Automotive| Blend & Warp| Display Summit 2016| Head Up Displays HUDs| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS31 Barco Happy with RP Cubes for Control Rooms

by Bob Raikes

Lutz Nehrhoff von Holderberg is from Barco where he looks after the control room business. He has been in Barco for twenty years. Barco has a new 24/7 control room projector using lasers (not …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Narrow Bezels| Projection Cubes| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS29 Digital Projection Likes LED for WCG

by Bob Raikes

Phil Laney is from Digital Projection Inc (DPI). The company invented the DLP with TI in the 1990s, Laney said. His topic was wide colour and by this he meant ‘beyond Rec. 709’. There …

Tags:Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| LED Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 24| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

DS30 Eccles Updates on Simulation Needs

by Bob Raikes

Dave Eccles is from Rockwell Collins (RC) and he said he has a great job – he gets paid to play games. Simulators are now so good that simulation counts as flight time, so …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Rockwell Collins| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS28 Mechdyne Explains Practicalities of CAVEs

by Bob Raikes

Kurt Hoffmeister is CTO from Mechdyne which is a US AV company that has been around a long time but now around 50% of its business is in 3D and immersive technologies. 30% of …

Tags:CAVEs| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Simulation| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS27 Aptovision Predicts Death of Matrix Switches

by Bob Raikes

Justin Kennington is from Aptovision and he talked about transmitting and switching video over IP. Aptovision has chips to put HDMI over ethernet networks and we covered this in some detail in our ISE …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Xplore Celebrates 12 Years of Orders

by Tom Allen

Image: Rugged PC ReviewA German car maker – which cannot be named – has chosen to use rugged tablets from Xplore Technologies for more than 12 years. Xplore is celebrating more than a decade …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Germany| Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Fox CTO: Cinemas Lag Behind TVs

by Tom Allen

The CTO of Fox Filmed Entertainment and chairman of the UltraHD Alliance, Hanno Basse, has said that cinemas need to catch up to HDR TVs. Basse was speaking to HD Guru at the Fox …

Tags:Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Infocomm Standardises Image Size

by Tom Allen

An Infocomm task group has developed a standard for sizing displayed images on AV systems. Current methods used by AV professions to calculate appropriate image sizes are not standardised, and their basis is not …

Tags:Avixa (was Infocomm)| Image Generators| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Standards| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Dolby and Lionsgate Master Content

by Tom Allen

Dolby and Lionsgate are working together to release a raft of Lionsgate titles – new and old – mastered in Dolby Vision. The content will also be mixed with Dolby Atmos audio.

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24