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Sharp Highlights 8K for TV and Professionals

by Chris Chinnock

Sharp kept a low profile at CES 2018, meeting with media and customers in a small suite in the Wynn. The Sharp TV brand was licensed to Hisense for the US market in early …

Tags:CES 2018 TV| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| sharp| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

LG Display Shows Rollable & 8K OLEDs

by Chris Chinnock

LG Display is the OLED and LCD provider to many TV brands including LG Electronics. As usual, they have a special meeting room at CES where they showcased a wide variety of new and …

Tags:CES 2018 TV| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Sony Impresses with Highest Dynamic Range to Date

by Chris Chinnock

Key Messages One of the key messages from Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s CEO, speaking at their press conference was the company’s TV focus. “We have really shifted our product focus to more high-end [products] with …

Tags:CES 2018 TV| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| sony| Vol 25 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Hisense Aiming To Compete with Samsung, Sony and LG

by Chris Chinnock

Key Messages The main items Hisense stressed at CES 2018 were their Laser TV and their FIFA sponsorship. In their press conference for example, a Chinese-language address by Hisense president Lui Hong Xin started …

Tags:CES 2018 TV| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

LG Electronics TVs at CES 2018

by Chris Chinnock

Key Messages At the LG Electronics press conference at CES 2018, company executives stressed that going forward, artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way we interact with products. Three things will be driving this. …

Tags:ATSC| CES 2018 TV| Display Calibration| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 25 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

HDR PC Monitor Market Coming

by Chris Chinnock

High Dynamic Range (HDR) is now becoming well established in the TV market, but it is now as well established in the PC segment. Here, HDR-capable PCs and monitors can be useful for gaming, …

Tags:AUO| Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 01| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

New Philips Adobe RGB Monitor Supports USB Type C Docking

by Bob Raikes

MMD has released the 328P6AUBREB under the Philips brand. The 32″ (31.5″) QuadHD (2560 x 1440) monitor has HDR support (HDR400) with a 10 bit panel and 12 bit processing. Colour support is 99% …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Philips| Vol 24 - Issue 45| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

A Proposal for ACES 2.0

by Chris Chinnock

Gary Demos of Image Essence and Doug Walker from Autodesk Media & Entertainment gave a very good presentation on a new color management solution that they believe should be considered for the next version …

Tags:ACES| Colour Management & Processing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

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On the Show Floor at SMPTE 2017

by Chris Chinnock

AstroDesign, working with NHK, was showing a real time MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) measurement using the knife-edge technique. To demonstrate this, an 8K camera was imaging a test pattern that is then processed and …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Dolby| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Next Action| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Highlights from the 2017 SMPTE Conference

by Chris Chinnock

As has been the case for several years, the SMPTE conference was held above the Dolby Theater in Hollywood California. There was a record turnout this year and because of the growth of the …

Tags:Cinema| Colour (Color)| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 24 - Issue 41| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Is a Wide Color Gamut the Wrong Thing?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent press release Corning and Healthe announced their collaboration on protecting eyes against damage from digital device blue light exposure. This collaboration is based on Healthe offering Eysafe covers for smartphones, tablets, …

Tags:Blue Light| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 40| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

HDR/WCG TV Messaging is Going to be a Mess

by Chris Chinnock

I had a feeling that the education and selling of consumers on the idea of HDR/WCG TVs was going to be problematic. After seeing what the major TV brands are saying about their TV …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 34| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)