June 17, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—A panel looked at the issues associated with multiple screen viewing. Colin Dixon from nScreen Media moderated the panel. [panelists included Mark Adams from Accedo, Chris Cukor from LG Electronics, Will Law from Akamai, and Jim Monroe from Net2TV. Dixon opened with comments about the…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Neil Hunt from Netflix talked about a bifurcation in trends that will affect all aspects of video content. Video is moving towards higher quality; bigger, brighter, and better, while also going to mobile devices, which are smaller, faster, and cheaper. Netflix is adding about100…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—A panel considered resource allocation for developments in media delivery. Robert Kisor SMPTE past president moderated the panel. Panelists included Anne Aaron from Netflix, Wendy Aylsworth from Warner Bros., Bill Baggelaar, from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pierre Larbier from Ateme, Paul Haskell from Harmonic, and Matthew…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Lars Borg from Adobe describes some of the differences between standard dynamic range and high dynamic range workflows. These new specifications calling for wider color gamut and higher dynamic range will impact content workflows. Current HD TV is based on BT 709 to provide…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Pat Griffis from SMPTE talked about the changes coming to TV and other video images. The advent of 4k and 8k sets will change more than the basic picture. An obvious development in the higher resolution TV sets is the increase in the number…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Scott Miller from Dolby talked about the changes in standards from gamma to perceptual quantizer. These changes a greater understanding of human vision and the continuing ability of technology to provide higher performance. Human vision must be considered as a system that includes physics–optics,…
June 4, 2015, Society for information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—John Penczek from U of Colorado and NIST talked about the efforts to develop measurement methods for transparent displays. The challenges are defining the appropriate characteristics for transmissive, emissive, and reflective displays. One of the problems is that ambient illumination can have a significant impact…
June 4, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Michael Becker from Instrument Systems reviewed the activities of CIE, IEC, and ISO on display standards. The rapid evolution of the displays is creating new challenges for the standards groups. The three groups are working on the following topics: CIE Fundamentals of photometry and colorimetry…
June 4, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Karlheinz Blankenbach from Pforzheim University in Germany presented the results of studies comparing flat and curved TVs. The key parameter they measured was viewing-angle degradation and reflections. The ability to manufacture concave curved displays may provide advantages compared to flat and convex displays of the…
June 3, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Yuki Maeda from Sony described the efforts in developing a high output light source for 4k projectors. The intent is to provide an alternative to flat panel displays for in-house use. The emerging 4K market can be handled reasonably well for smaller screens on flat-panel…