Vol 25 – Issue 26 – Display Daily

MicroLEDs at the ADS – Part 2 – Individual Talks

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Frank (Qun) Yan, Professor at Fuzhou University (China) & General Manager of SID China gave the first microLED talk titled MicroLED driving the third wave of technology revolution of information display. This talk was …

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The Silly Season Starts

by Bob Raikes

We’ve been catching up this week. We got the CineEurope report finished and Matt has worked late into his night to complete the report on Chris’s event in Hollywood last week, so for the …

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Monthly Active VR Users on Steam Up 160% Year-on-Year

by Andrew Fenn

Valve’s Head of Business Development, Jan-Peter Ewert, revealed at last weeks’ White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 conference that Steam’s monthly active users with a VR headset have grown 160% year-on-year. Ewert didn’t provide a …

Tags:AR/VR| Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 26

MicroLEDs at the ADS – Part 1 – Overview

by Matthew Brennesholtz

MicroLEDs were a very popular topic at the QLED & Advanced Display Summit (ADS), with eight talks taking up most of the second day of the conference. One reason the topic was popular at …

HDR Cinema at the ADS

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The first speaker on the HDR Cinema topic was Christopher Buchanan of Samsung Electronics America titled The (LED) Future Starts Today. His talk was mostly a pep talk about LED Cinema especially, of course, …

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Display & Mastering Tools at the ADS

by Matthew Brennesholtz

There were also four speakers in the Display & Mastering Tools section of the Advanced Display Summit. Mostly, the speakers discussed the tools their companies can provide to the production and post-production industry in …

Quantum Dots at the ADS

by Matthew Brennesholtz

There were four papers at the Advanced Display Summit specifically on Quantum Dots (QDs). Since these papers covered relatively familiar ground, I will discuss them only briefly. Several of the papers referred to QD …

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8K/UHD-2 at the ADS

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Chris Chinnock opened the ADS with his talk titled Addressing the Challenges of Selling 8K. This talk mostly addressed issues associated with UHD-2 TV, not 8K cinema systems. The transition from Standard Definition (SD) …

The Advanced Display Summit 2018

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Insight Media and Samsung hosted the QLED and Advanced Display Summit (ADS) in West Hollywood on June 27 and 28. The agenda included Quantum Dots (QDs), 8K, Display and Mastering Tools, High Dynamic Range …

Consumer Technology Association Releases Its First AR/VR Standard

by Andrew Fenn

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has published its first-ever standard addressing AR/VR technologies. “CTA-2069, Definitions and Characteristics of Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies” introduces various terms defining emerging consumer technologies such as AR, MR, …

G&D Extends 8K up to 10 Kilometres

by Bob Raikes

We’ve reported German KVM maker, Guntermann & Drunck several times, most recently from the ATC event in Madrid (KVMs Important in ATC) and we spotted them in our rush around Infocomm, but didn’t have …

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Samsung Outdoor LED Signage Installed at Mall in South America

by Andrew Fenn

The Plaza Norte shopping mall in Lima, Peru is now home to LED signage from Samsung. The company’s engineers decided that the ideal LED screen product for the mall would be its XA160F outdoor …