February 2016, Electronic Imaging, San Francisco—Carlos Eduardo Rodriguez-Pardo from the University of Rochester described a procedure for calibrating displays with more than the standard 3-color displays. The challenge is to provide a display that still has a continuous color spectrum. The current mode of 3-color displays has some issues with realistic matching to human vision….
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 2, 2015, San Jose, CA—James Thielen from 3M described the latest products and technologies at the SID exhibition. The new releases include quantum dot enhancement film and lighter weight direct lit FHD TV, single backlight TV film, no film backlight TV, and thin profile TV solutions. They also introduced a new methodology and measurement…
March 3, 2014, US Flat Panel Display Connected Devices Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Paul Gray from NPD DisplaySearch moderated a panel on the emerging 4k TV segments. Panelists included Rob Tobias from Silicon Image, Joe Kane from Joe Kane Productions, Ken Lowe from Vizio, Amine Chabane from Marseille Networks, and Brian Markwalter from the Consumer Electronics…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Charles Annis from NPD DisplaySearch moderated a panel on materials and manufacturing. Panelists were Jeff Yurek from Nanosys, Margaret Hines from Nanoco Technologies, and Conor Madigan from Kateeva. Yurek noted that the NTSC broadcast color gamut is only 35 percent of possible colors in the human…