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IHS: 32 Million M² of WCG Displays by 2020

by Tom Allen

Wide colour gamut displays (including OLED and quantum dot technologies) will reach a shipment area of 32 million m² in 2018, says IHS: 17% of total display shipment area. According to senior analyst Richard …

Tags:AMOLED| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 23| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)| Worldwide

Sony’s Canvas Display – Best of Show at InfoComm 2016?

by Chris Chinnock

I can’t really crown Sony’s CLEDIS display my best of show winner, as I have only been here one day and have not seen all the cool stuff yet – but this one will …

Tags:Infocomm 2016| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 22| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Dolby Proposes New Color Standard for Color Remapping

by Chris Chinnock

One of the more important needs as HDR and WCG content and displays become available is the need to do color remapping. That means taking content from the rec 709 content and expanding it …

Tags:Dolby| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

A Closer Look at a QD Monitor

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the Philips E-line 27″ 276E6 monitor at IFA last year. The monitor is unusual in that it uses QD Vision’s Color IQ quantum dot technology to give a wide colour gamut. …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 23 - Issue 12| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

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New Test Content Available for HDR Tone Mapping Evaluation

by Chris Chinnock

With the advent of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) displays, a new need to do conversions of color volume and gray scale has arrived. That is because there will be …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 11| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Sharp Has Plans for Colour

by Tom Allen

Sharp has pushed two of its large-format products, introduced at ISE (Sharp Enjoying the Big Pad), to market: the 70″ Big Pad PN-70TW3 and 80″ PN-H801. The Big Pad is Sharp’s first interactive (10-point …

Tags:Colour Quality| Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| sharp| VA (Vertical Align)| Vol 23 - Issue 10| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Ericsson Ensures QoE

by Tom Allen

Ericsson had what might have been the largest stand at the show, taking up one entire end of a hall by itself. However, the majority of the space was invitation-only, and only open to …

Tags:Automotive| Ericsson| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 08| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Sony Shows Latest HDR/WCG UHD TVs

by Chris Chinnock

At a special Sony press and installer meeting in New York in early February, we had a chance to get some updates and demos of the latest Sony UHD TVs sets. Picture quality was …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| sony| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 06| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Insight Media Covers Better Pixels in New White Papers

by Isaac Oburu

Insight Media, a source of in-depth technical news and analysis for the display trade, has published several new white papers covering the ‘Better Pixels’ movement (registration required). The first white paper, ‘The Status of …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| Projectors| UltraHD| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

HDR and WCG to Become Mainstream

by Chris Chinnock

I spent almost the entire time at CES looking at the High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) ecosystem. One tutorial white paper on these technologies, along with a table of current …

Tags:CES 2016| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Vol 23 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Ambilux Coming to Philips This Year

by Tom Allen

Funai is the licensee for Philips’ TV brand in the USA, and is responsible for showing the company’s new TVs every CES, as well as its own products. Two sets were being shown under …

Tags:CES 2016| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| Philips| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Better Pixels and Cheaper Tech Coming to Vegas

by Tom Allen

CES is almost here again – in fact, it will only be a couple of days away by the time you read this piece. Cue a week of meeting and greeting, some (hopefully) fascinating …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2016| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Smartphones| tablets| UltraHD| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)