Sony 65A9F Master Series 4K OLED Wins 2018 ‘TV Shoot Out’
Sony’s new Master Series 65A9F 4K Ultra HD OLED TV narrowly beat out a field of the four top-performing 4K flat-panel televisions for 2018 in voting by a panel of “expert” judges to win the annual “TV Shoot Out” presented by Scarsdale, N.Y. high-end electronics…
Calibration Expert: `Is 10,000 Nits Of Brightness Enough?’
Although some experts have warned against going too far with peak luminance in next-generation televisions designs, Tyler Pruitt, technical evangelist with display calibration specialist Portrait Displays/SpectraCal and a SMPTE member, said existing standards aren’t nearly high enough. Speaking at the Insight Media/Samsung-sponsored QLED and other…
Review: Hisense 50R7 Roku TV Offers 4K/HDR At A Value
For the past several years, televisions based on the Roku TV platform have offered some of the best values for big-screen LED-LCD TVs at affordable price points, and the 2018 Hisense R7 Roku TV series is no exception. Like most Roku TVs, this series offers…
CEDIA Gives ISF’s Joel Silver Lifetime Achievement Award
Joel Silver, a founding member of the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) has been given the Custom Electronics Designers and Installers Association (CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization announced Monday. Silver founded the ISF in 1994, to introduced video image quality calibration services into consumer electronics….
DisplayPort Welcomes Use Of DisplayHDR Certification Beyond PC Monitors
Roland Wooster, Intel Desktop Products Group and DisplayPort representative The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) recently introduced its DisplayHDR certification program to help consumers quickly discern between good, better and best 4K Ultra HD LED-LCD PC monitors with high dynamic range (HDR) capability, but member executives…
DisplayHDR Spec Helps Clarify HDR Performance Levels
VESA Certified DisplayHDR brand logo representing the entry level of HDR system performance for PC displays. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) revealed Monday what it is calling the industry’s “first fully open standard specifying high dynamic range (HDR) quality, including luminance, color gamut, bit…
EPA Issues `Final Draft’ Of Energy Star V.8 For TVs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week issued the Final Draft Version 8.0 of its Energy Star TV specifications, which are to take effect April 16, 2018. In the process of completing the draft, the EPA offered industry stake holders an opportunity to…
LG 4K OLED TV Wins TV Shootout For 4th Consecutive Year
ISF President Joel Silver discusses the 2017 TV Shootout Criteria during CE Week Wednesday. LG’s OLED TV technology, represented this year by the 65-inch OLED65E7P, continued to take top honors in the Annual TV Shootout during the CE Week Show in New York by sweeping…
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