Vol 25 – Issue 15 – Page 2

TVLogic Demos HDR Grading Monitor

by Chris Chinnock

TVLogic’s LU310R is their top of the line 31” 4K grading monitor. Like the Flanders offering (Flanders Shows HDR Monitors), this monitor uses the Panasonic dual-panel approach with 2048 LEDs and a dimmable backlight. …

Sharp Highlights 8K and More

by Chris Chinnock

There were no new products in the Sharp booth but they were highlighting professional products and applications. In 8K for example, digital signage was being showcased as a 4 x 4 video wall using …

RTings Looking at LCD & OLED Static Image Performance

by Bob Raikes

The RTings.com website is conducting a long term stress test on VA and IPS LCDs and an OLED to try to assess the impact of image sticking and ‘burn-in’. The sets are the OLED …

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Scenarist Says Packaged Media is Far from Dead

by Chris Chinnock

Scenarist is a company that develops packaged media authoring tools to help with the authoring, replication and distribution of DVDs, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray disc. At NAB 2018, they told us that DVDF …

Postium Shows 4K/HDR Grade 1 Monitor

by Chris Chinnock

Korea-based Postium showed their new reference grade 4K/HDR monitor at NAB. The OBM-X310 is a 31.5” monitor based upon the dual-panel design from Panasonic. The monitor goes for the fixed (i.e. non dimmable) backlight …

Panasonic Pitches 8K Sports Acquisition

by Chris Chinnock

Most of the Panasonic booth was about cameras, but one use of an 8K camera caught our eye. In Panasonic’s view, sporting events can now be covered with only three 8K cameras instead of …

NHK’s 8K Update

by Chris Chinnock

NHK was in the Futures Park area again in 2018 to showcase what it is doing in 8K. While trial broadcasting of 8K began in Japan in August of 2016, regular programming is now …

Marshall Electronics Shows Rack-Mount Monitors

by Chris Chinnock

Marshall only had one new display, the AR-DM61BT which is specifically designed as an audio monitoring device. It also showed its M-LYNX-702W, a 7” 1280 x 720 display with HDMI and 3G-SDI inputs with …

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LED Screens at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

Absen had a very nice looking booth with a big curved LED screen above the booth providing a “sports book” atmosphere. This display featured their 2.9mm LEDs and exhibited no screen door effect from …

JVC Adds HDR Monitors

by Chris Chinnock

JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKenwood USA Corp., used NAB to announce two new 4K studio LCD monitors along with four new FullHD monitors. The 28″ DT-U28U and 31.5″ DT-U31U feature native 4K …

Ikegami Thinking about 8K

by Chris Chinnock

Ikegami says they now have HLG installed on all their broadcast cameras plus support on some for PQ and SLog. Their 8K camera, the SHK 810 is in its fourth generation as a cooperative …

Hitachi Shows HDR/SDR Camera Out Capability

by Chris Chinnock

Hitachi used a darkened room to show off what its new SK-UHD4000 broadcast camera can do. The camera can acquire using HLG (600, 800 or 1200) or PQ, sending the signal over SMPTE fiber …