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CES 2015: Upon Further Review…
There’s so much to take in at the International CES every year that you need a few weeks for it all to sink it. I posted my recap of the show earlier this month. Now, I want to expound on a couple of...
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Look Out, HDMI – Here Comes Super MHL!
Yesterday, the MHL Consortium announced its newest flavor of display interface – Super MHL (or, more accurately, superMHL). MHL, which stands for Mobile High-definition Link, was original developed to...
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NAB In The Rear View Mirror
It’s been over a week since I got back from Las Vegas and edited all of my photos and videos. But once again, NAB scored big numbers with attendance and there were enough goodies to be found in all...
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4K, Collapsing Prices, and the Declining Importance of Hardware
As I write this, the 2015 season of the National Football League is about to get underway, with last year’s Super Bowl champion New England Patriots taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you’re not a...
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Display Interfacing: Welcome to Babylon
For many years, ‘interfacing’ a video signal meant plugging in a yellow RCA or silver BNC connector that carried composite video. As picture resolution went up, computers became commonplace at work and...
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InfoComm 2016 In The Rearview Mirror
Another InfoComm show has come and gone. This is my 23rd InfoComm and it’s hard to imagine when I first set foot in Anaheim way back in 1994 – ostensibly to cover the now-defunct Projection Shoot-Out –...
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High Dynamic Range: It’s Here!
Ever since the launch of high definition television in the 1990s, it seems as if some new ‘bell and whistle’ enhancement comes along every few years. First it was the changeover to flat screen plasma...
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Heads Up! Here Comes 8K TV (or, The Case Of The Amazing Vanishing Pixels)
Yes, you read that right: 8K displays are coming. For that matter, 8K broadcasting has already been underway in Japan since 2012, and several companies are developing 8K video cameras to be shown at...
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Blu-Ray: On The Endangered Species List?
One of the problems with market research is that you often wind up with conflicting data from two or more sources. Or, the data presents a “conclusion” that’s all too easy to “spin” to advance an...
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R.I.P For Home Theater Projectors?
Recent trends in large flat screen displays have me wondering if we are seeing the beginning of the end for home theater front projection. (We are already seeing pressure on front projection for...
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