March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—A panel from industry looked at the issues in flat panel development and product feature specification. Paul Gagnon from NPD DisplaySearch moderated the panel. Panel members were Jim Sandusky from Sharp, Tim Alessi from LG Electronics, Ken Lowe from Vizio, Henry Hauser from Panasonic, Dan Schinasi…
October 24, 2012, Renesas DevCon, Anaheim, CA—We talked with Cathy Dotson, Dale Maunu, Dean Collins, and Yuji Kondo from NLT Displays about their various display products. The displays are from the former NEC LCD Technologies company and geared for industrial use. The context for the display group is that they are not in the consumer-grade…
May 2012 – The Connectivity Week events included a panel discussion on testing, certification and quality of the reporting methods and data. One of the issues regarding smart meters and the reliance on their data is the accuracy of the meters and the data being reported. The panel consisted of Doug Houseman of EnerNex, Rudi…
We talked with Richard Duval from Tektronix about the latest releases in the TV and broadcast product lines. The test equipment and software releases cover all areas of technical work from field, to post, broadcast, and cable. For production, they have waveform monitor WFM7200 and rasterizer WVR7200—a waveform monitor without a display for rack use—to…
March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– we talked with First Media about their video quality evaluation tools. They believe their tools can improve the quality of experience for viewers by detecting where video stream degradation occurs. Video delivery requires evaluation of signal quality along the entire distribution channel. Some of these channels include multicast…