Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) – Page 3

Nanosys, QDs and Vacuums

by Bob Raikes

Vacuums were much on my mind when I listened to the last couple of talks in the DSCC/SID Business Conference in the TV section, given by Jason Hartlove of quantum dot (QD) developer, Nanosys …

Tags:MiniLED| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

You Can’t Describe Colour Volume in 2D. Or Can You?

by Bob Raikes

Colour has been much on my mind recently, after the recent articles on WCG and content that I published. In those articles, I talked a lot about colour gamuts and showed a 2D diagram …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Colour Management & Processing| Testing| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

So, There’s no Colour Content above P3 Gamut, is There? (Part 2)

by Bob Raikes

This is the second part of a short series on how wider colour gamut content is coming to the market. Yesterday , I looked at how the technology allows content with wider colour gamut …

So, There’s no Colour Content above P3 Gamut, is There? (Part 1)

by Bob Raikes

Mea culpa. Sometimes, you have a fixed idea in your mind and although things around you are changing, like the apocryphal ‘frog in the saucepan’, the little changes don’t register and you don’t notice …

Tags:OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| Rec 709| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Avantama qualifies its green pQD display film

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Avantama of Switzerland, a developer of quantum dots, has told Perovskite-Info that it has had its green perovskite material qualified for production use. What We Think I thought this was a …

Tags:Perovskite| Quantum Dots| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

SMPTE Publishes Study on WCG

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at Dolby and RiT in New York have conducted a project, published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, that confirms that viewers had a preference for images that had an …

Tags:Colour Quality| DCI P3| Rec 2020| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

The Six Pillars of Ultra HD

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yoeri Geutskens has written a good guide to all the features of ‘the full set’ of UltraHD technologies. UHD or Ultra HD spatial resolution – 4K or 8K HDR or High …

Tags:3D Object-based Audio| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| UltraHD & 4K| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Samsung Claims >100% of BT2020 for New Projector

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung recently announced its new UST projector. It has now confirmed that it uses direct lasers and claims to be able to support 106% of the Rec 2020 colour gamut and …

Tags:Laser Projectors| Rec 2020| Samsung| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

VitreaLab Developing Laser Backlight

by Chris Chinnock

One of the presentations from the recent SID DisplayWeek virtual event was from Vienna-based VitreaLab. They described a new RGB laser light engine that can be used as a backlight for conventional LCD displays …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Laser| Laser TVs| LCD Backlights| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

SID Display Week 2020: QD Review Part 2 (perovskites)

by Peter Palomaki

As a follow up to last week’s article SID Display Week 2020: QD Review Part 1 where I covered the business conference, this article will dive deeper into the technical progress I saw at …

Tags:LCD Backlights| Perovskite| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2020| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Sharp and the 8K Ecosystem

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On May 11, Sharp USA had a webinar on 8K titled “Beyond 4K: Exploring Sharp’s 8K Ecosystem.” Since Sharp has said it will not be a US television supplier, the webinar focused on professional …

8K TV: More Than Just Pixels

by Ken Werner

The 8K Display Summit held June 11 at the Millenium Times Square Hotel had 14 speakers and a presentation of content that was deep, broad, and frequently insightful. In yesterday’s DD, my colleague Matt …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Quantum Dots| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Visual Quality| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)