It is shown that the temperature of the phosphor layer influences the saturation power level and the conversion efficiency. It is also shown that the correlated color temperature (CCT), phosphor conversion efficiency and color rendering index (CRI) are dependent both on the incident power and spot size diameter of the illumination. A phosphor conversion efficiency up to 140.8 lm/W with CRI of 89.4 was achieved. The saturation in a ceramic phosphor, when illuminated by high intensity laser diodes, is estimated to play the main role in limiting the available luminance from laser-based lighting systems

http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/10/12/1407?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3B4ytT3EtcQa60Kiz%2BGPMbPw%3D%3D

Cosina Japan officially announces that the following Zeiss SLR Classic series lenses had been discontinued:

• 2.8/15mm
• 3.5/18mm
• 2/25mm
• 2/28mm
• 1.4/35mm
• 2/135mm

Let's check it out:

Baseline DisplayHDR 400

• True 8-bit image quality
• Global dimming – improves dynamic contrast ratio
• Peak luminance of 400 cd/m2
• 100% sRGB coverage NOT needed, 95% only

DisplayHDR 600

• Peak luminance of 600 cd/m2
• Full-screen flash requirement
• Local dimming
• 90% of DCI-P3 gamut. Why 90%, what 90% means actually? As each monitor can be different such way.
• Internal 10-bit image processing, but still cheap 8bit panels.

DisplayHDR 1000

• Peak luminance of 1000 cd/m2, can't retain such brightness for long(!)
• Local dimming
• 90% of DCI-P3 gamut (again 90%!)
• Internal 10-bit image processing, but still cheap 8bit panels.

Even best displays won't be able to retain even 1000 nits, except for flash. It makes backlight cheaper, as well as stupid TV energy saving rules can live longer happy.

Contrast requirements are very lazy, as making even IPS monitor with 1:1000-1500 is not hard, it is ordinal numbers now. Actually whole limits are made with IPS consideration, as for VA and OLED panels parameters can be much higher.

They also allowed to keep cheap 8bit panels, but now call them "10-bit" by adding dither.

In reality minimum must be 5000 nit peak, 2500 nit retain, 14 bit processing, 10-12 bit native panels, 1:4000 minimum contrast. 100% DCI-P3 coverage. But leading firms won't like it, as profits will be much smaller such way.

For sure we will see such standards, 2 years from now, as they ask you to change your TV and monitor again.

On July 25, 2017, the Company committed to a restructuring plan to reduce its cost structure. The July 2017 Plan included reducing the Company’s global headcount by approximately 600 employees. The July 2017 Plan was largely completed by the end of the September 2017 quarter.

Previous two plans combined was another 6800 people.

From https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1137789/000119312517323042/d432283d10q.htm#index432283_13

Intel is slashing its iconic "Intel Inside" program – a major source of funding for the past two decades aimed at helping OEMs and channel partners drive PC sales growth – by anywhere from 40 percent to 60 percent, according to multiple industry sources briefed on the cuts.

Sources said the cuts are going to reverberate through the industry, ranging from potential PC price increases from OEMs to cutbacks in marketing from systems builders and solution providers.

http://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/300096616/sources-intel-planning-steep-cuts-to-landmark-intel-inside-program-that-will-ripple-across-pc-industry.htm

October 26-28.

Paulo, US Team coverage .

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It's confirmed that the next Xiaomi phone will have this chip.

https://9to5google.com/2017/12/05/xiaomi-ceo-lei-jun-us-launch/

Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) is pushing the boundaries of 4K ultra-high definition (UHD) technology with an expanded family of chipsets to bring 4K UHD technology to new applications. Building on the introduction of the DLP660TE chipset, the first affordable 4K UHD offering in the industry, the portfolio now includes two smaller chipsets, the DLP470TE and DLP470TP, to expand the sharp image capabilities of 4K UHD into a broader range of end equipment.

DLP470TP, DLP470TE & DLP660TE

Developers can now design DLP 4K UHD technology into a variety of end products such as laser TVs, mobile smart TVs, digital signage displays, smart home displays, pico projectors, business and education projectors, and more. The chipsets span a wide range of power, size, brightness and performance levels to help designers achieve any 4K UHD end-equipment objective. For more information about display offerings in TI's DLP Products portfolio, see http://www.ti.com/DLP4kExpansion-pr .

Each DLP 4K UHD chipset exceeds the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) definition for 4K UHD technology, displaying over 8 million pixels on the screen.

Key features and benefits of the chipsets

• The DLP470TP is the most compact 4K UHD solution from DLP Products, and is optimized for size and power. Measuring 17 mm by 24.5 mm and supporting brightness levels up to 1,500 lumens, the DLP470TP can deliver 4K UHD quality to equipment such as mobile smart TVs and pico projectors.
• The DLP470TE is optimized for projectors needing over 1,500 lumens. This chipset is in a larger package, 22 mm by 32 mm, which enables it to withstand the heat generated by brightness levels up to 4,000 lumens.
• The DLP660TE is the most powerful of the three 4K UHD chipsets. This digital micromirror device (DMD) is designed to enable projection applications up to 5,000 lumens.

TI collaborates with the most extensive ecosystem of optical engine manufacturers in the industry. This offers developers a path to production-ready optical engines, reducing design time and helping companies get their innovative products to market faster. To learn more, please visit the optical engine manufacturer page.

Availability

Developers can get started immediately with the DLP660TE which is available now in the TI store and through authorized distributors. The DLP470TE and DLP470TP will be in production in early 2018.

12-14 October

Covered by PV India Team.

Stay Tuned.

Gibson Brands announced today that it is ceasing active development and production of Cakewalk branded products. The decision was made to better align with the company’s acquisition strategy that is heavily focused on growth in the global consumer electronics audio business under the Philips brand.

Cakewalk has been an industry leader in music software for over 25 years by fusing cutting-edge technology with creative approaches to tools that create, edit, mix, and publish music for professional and amateur musicians. Gibson Brands acquired Cakewalk in 2013.

Gibson Brands, a growing company in the music and sound industries, was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson Brands is a global leader in musical instruments, consumer electronics, and professional audio, and is dedicated to bringing the finest experiences to consumers by offering exceptional products with world- recognized brands.

More than two years ago, Lytro began focusing on Light Field video solutions for the cinema and virtual reality industries and discontinued the manufacturing and distribution of Lytro cameras for photography. As a part of our plan to further focus on these new efforts, the ability to publish from Lytro Desktop and Lytro Mobile to pictures.lytro.com will be discontinued.

On November 30, 2017 we discontinued the pictures.lytro.com website. Thereafter, the following features will no longer work and will generate an error:

• Post to pictures.lytro.com and/or Facebook from Lytro Desktop or Lytro Mobile
• View online albums or pictures
• Sign into a Lytro web account
• Check for software updates
• Why did you discontinue pictures.lytro.com?

All "local" Lytro Desktop features will continue to work: adjustment and animation tools, presentation mode and exporting as .jpg, .mov, .gif, etc. The only parts of Lytro Desktop that will no longer function will be anything specific to online sharing.

Vidme came a long way as an independent platform, but we couldn’t find a path to sustainability.

After careful consideration, the Vidme team has arrived at the difficult decision to suspend the Vidme site and apps effective December 15th at noon PT.

• New sign-ups and uploads will be disabled effective today.
• Existing videos will be playable and exportable from your video manager until December 15th at noon PT, at which point they will be permanently deleted from the Vidme servers.
• All paid channel subscripitions will be suspended immediately, and subscriber-only videos will be exclusively accessible by their video owners.
• Any outstanding earnings will be paid out upon verification within 60 days.
• All Vidme paid subscriptions will cease as of today, and subscribers will no longer be billed.

https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa

Vimeo also has lot of problems and constantly falling views and participation rates, I expect that in 2018 we will see major reorganization or even sudden closure.

The CineForm codec, initially developed in 2001, was designed to enable real-time consumer video editing. CineForm, Inc. was a team of engineers that knew image and video processing, but very little about codec design (which likely helped.) Back then, DV (remember mini-DV tape?) was popular but too slow on the consumer's Pentium III and Pentium 4 desktops for software based video editing. We had worked out that the Intel processors had plenty of speed for editing without dedicated hardware, but the camera's compression, DV or MPEG based, were too difficult to decode. So in 2001, the CineForm codec became the first "visually lossless" intermediate codec (not a proxy) that replaced the source with a new file with much more speed. We didn't know this was a somewhat new idea. While there were other performance optimized codecs, like HuffYUV, CineForm was the first to offer significant compression, balancing quality, speed and performance like no other before it. Since then, Avid DNxHD and Apple ProRES have followed similar strategies. As CineForm Inc (the start up), the codec became a core differenciator, open source was never felt to be a viable option (we were probably wrong.)

In 2017, the production market changed again, with new opportunities for the CineForm codec to provide solutions… particularly for greater than 4K sources from premium 360° products, like GoPro's own Fusion and Omni cameras. The new Fusion Studio desktop software defaults to CineForm for all the greater than 4K exports. But unlike GoPro Studio, where CineForm was primarily an internal format, Fusion Studio is not an editor. The CineForm files are meant to be edited in external tools, like Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve and HitFilm. While many video tools do have native CineForm support, not all do… and some can’t. This gives GoPro more compelling reasons to make CineForm open source to help support our high resolution cameras.

The CineForm SDK is now open sourced, dual licensed under Apache 2.0 or the MIT license (integrator's choice.) You are now welcome to build new applications around the CineForm SDK, build it into existing applications, and extend its abilities with new performance optimizations and explore new image formats. I would love to see it go into many new places and new markets, but in particular, into popular open source players and transcoders. While the CineForm wavelet engine might be simple, 16 years of coding and optimization have complicated the source. So, to help with new upcoming compression-ists, the open source includes a simplified wavelet compression modeling tool -- simplified CineForm -- for education purposes and some codec design and tuning.

GitHub: https://gopro.github.io/cineform-sdk/

Hasselblad’s New Online Store is Now Open To The USA, China, UK, Germany and France

Hasselblad, the leading manufacturer of digital medium format cameras and lenses, is pleased to announce the launch of its new online ‘Hasselblad Store’. The online store will broaden availability of Hasselblad’s iconic high- performance cameras and lenses to photographers in the USA, China, UK, Germany and France.

“The launch of the ‘Hasselblad Store’ is one of our core initiatives derived from our strategy that focuses on not only making our products more accessible to photographers seeking hands on experience with the Hasselblad product line-up, but also to inspire fans with great images and stories” said Bronius Rudnickas, Hasselblad Marketing Manager.

The online store follows closely behind the new Hasselblad website and the ‘Rent a Hasselblad’ program that was launched earlier in November.

‘Rent a Hasselblad’ is a global online reservation service for Hasselblad cameras and lenses. Whether renting a Hasselblad system for a speci c photoshoot, booking a camera to try it out before purchasing, or reserving gear to pick up and use at their next travel destination, the rental service provides photographers with more freedom and greater accessibility to Hasselblad systems.

During the opening week of the online store, customers will be eligible to receive a ve percent (5%) discount on the award winning X1D and the XCD 45mm and 90mm lenses. In addition, for every customer purchasing an H6D-50c or H6D-100c camera, an H System Camera Hard Case will be included. This offer will end on December 7th, 2017.

Access to the ‘Hasselblad Store’ at:

https://store.hasselblad.com/

According to Consumer Technology Association (CTA) market research presented at the annual CES 2018 Unveiled media event in the New York Metropolitan Pavilion Thursday, retailers are competing furiously throughout the month, before and after Thanksgiving, with special deals, many of which involve some sort of technology device.

From a CTA consumer study conducted just last weekend, 44 percent of those surveyed said they plan to shop now through the beginning of Thanksgiving week; 33 percent are shopping on Black Friday, and 51 percent are shopping on Cyber Monday.

http://www.nikon.com/100th/

Make sure to check https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/18113/black-friday-2017-topic#Item_41

We now support 10-bit video, which means the image quality is strikingly clear and cleaner than ever before. The precision and nuance of 10-bit allows us to upgrade from 16 million colors to 1 billion colors.

With BT.2020 (or Rec.2020) support and wider color gamuts (WCG), your image will now represent over 75% of the color that the human eye can see.

We can now unlock your 5K, 6K, and 8K videos for your fans to watch on their Ultra High Def devices, or you can download them for file sharing.

As we evolve our platform to display even more visual data, we now leverage HEVC/H.265 transcodes in addition to the H.264 set we currently use. This enables us to unlock next-generation features like HDR, and improve efficiency, so you can view a higher quality video with the same bandwidth.

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/luminous-colors-stunning-high-quality-hdr-arrived

Sony

• Translation - http://www.ustream.tv/sony
• Blog - http://blog.sony.com/ces/

Samsung, LG and other streams

• http://live.cnet.com/#ScheduleEvents

https://www.nature.com/articles/am2017163

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) today announced a major update to its Display Identification Data (DisplayID) standard. The new version 2.0 of this universal display standard simplifies connecting and configuring modern display products, including PC monitors, consumer TVs and embedded displays (e.g., display panels within laptop and all-in-one systems). The result is a best-in-class plug-and-play experience. Advanced capabilities supported include 4K-and-higher resolutions, high dynamic range (HDR), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and refresh rates of 120Hz and above.

The DisplayID standard was originally launched in 2009 to enable the widely adopted Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) standard to keep up with newer-generation display technologies. However, with the EDID standard nearing the end of its effectiveness, a standard with new standalone structures, unencumbered by legacy architecture, is needed to properly and efficiently communicate modern display capabilities, thus ensuring an optimal user experience for future display technologies.

What’s New with DisplayID 2.0

The key difference between DisplayID 2.0 and EDID predecessors is its modular structure, based on the concept of “data blocks” – individually defined, self-contained data formats that each provide a specific set of related display information in a clear unambiguous manner. This benefit affords unprecedented flexibility, as entire content can be constructed from any number of elements, predefined data blocks or descriptors. The specification addresses head-mounted and other types of wearable displays; provides a clearer way to define Adaptive-Sync (i.e., dynamic refresh rate); extends field sizes to support higher pixel counts; expands the magnitude of parameters needed to enable HDR; and supports high luminance, to name just a few of the advanced technologies that DisplayID 2.0 covers.

“What version 2.0 of the DisplayID standard facilitates is a true ‘it just works’ plug-and-play consumer experience,” said Bill Lempesis, VESA executive director. “With advanced display technologies becoming more widely available, DisplayID 2.0 – by stripping out legacy capabilities – provides a crisp, succinct way to describe optimized connectivity while carrying forward structures that remain relevant today. This ensures the standard will expand to accommodate user demands.”

“EDID remains viable for lower-resolution devices, and the current framework allows for the smooth transition from EDID to DisplayID as modern displays migrate over time,” commented Syed Hussain, VESA board vice chairman and AMD Senior Display Domain Fellow. “While DisplayID 2.0 is a future-focused specification incorporating support for higher resolution and refresh rates as well as HDR and Adaptive-Sync, it can also co-exist with older products supporting EDID, further enabling us to help guarantee full-plug-and-play ability for consumers regardless of the type of display they own.”

If you have lot of people who want to eat and live well, sooner or later you will get ton of complex standards and most of them are not needed by anyone.

http://cweb.canon.jp/canon-official-fan-goods/index.html

Nikon Inc. has formally announced the appointment of Bo Kajiwara as the new President of Nikon Inc, the subsidiary of Nikon Corporation for the Americas. Kajiwara transitions from his role as the Senior General Manager, Sales and Marketing for Nikon Europe. During his 29-year tenure with Nikon, Kajiwara has overseen many major product and marketing efforts including the launches of industry changing DSLR cameras, multiple NIKKOR lenses and compact camera options. Previous to his position at Nikon Europe, Kajiwara held the role at Nikon Corp. in Japan of General Manager for the Communications Department, with the responsibility for International Sales Strategy and Communications. Kajiwara is no stranger to the US, having worked in Nikon Inc. from 2004 to 2013, rising to the role of Vice President of Marketing, Planning and Customer Experience from head of the Imaging Division.

“I am very eager to help lead the charge in the Americas; It’s an exciting time in the imaging industry, and as Nikon celebrates our 100th anniversary, the company’s outlook for innovation is positive, which is great news for our customers, partners and retailers,” said Kajiwara. “We just announced Nikon’s most powerful DSLR ever, and the highly acclaimed D850 DSLR is just the start of great things to come. Nikon is leveraging its legacy and experience to create exceptional products and solutions for a wide range of applications.”

In his new position as President and CEO of Nikon Inc., Kajiwara will oversee markets in the Americas, including the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central Latin America, with a concentrated effort on marketing, product development and customer satisfaction. Kajiwara will continue to promote the drive to optimize “focus and efficiency,” which has become a core pillar of Nikon Corp’s. worldwide plan for restructuring to drive profitability.

Due to the earthquake of April 14, 2016 and subsequent earthquakes in the Kumamoto region, Sony Corporation ("Sony") expects that it will be unable to formulate the forecast for its consolidated results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017 in the usual timeframe.

The survey of damage to the Kumamoto Technology Center conducted so far has revealed damage to certain parts of the building, clean rooms and production equipment. The timeframe for resuming operations has yet to be determined. The Kumamoto Technology Center is the primary manufacturing site for image sensors for digital cameras and security cameras as well as for micro-display devices.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201604/16-043E/index.html

• Square image sensor of aspect ratio 1:1
• Excellent image quality by large pixel size equivalent to DSLR (APS/35mm)
• High sensitivity using BI technologies
• Digital Overlap High Dynamic Range function

• Super high resolution (100-150 Million pixels) image sensor using microfabrication technologies
• High Dynamic Range function (HDR)
• Rich graduation expression (High resolution AD converter - Max.16bit)

Datacolor®, a global leader in colour management solutions, has announced its current winter sales. Until December 22nd, customers can save over £130 on Spyder products through qualified retail stores as well as Datacolor’s online shop.

Datacolor’s savings this winter:

• Spyder5PRO + FREE SpyderCUBE – for accurate RAW conversion on a calibrated display
  Promotional price: £157 incl. VAT
• Spyder5ELITE + FREE SpyderCHECKR24 – for accurate camera calibration on a calibrated display
  Promotional price: £228 incl. VAT
• SpyderCHECKR – Datacolor’s premium calibration chart with replaceable colour cards, FadeCHECKR and tripod mount
  Promotional price: £87 incl. VAT
• Spyder5CAPTURE PRO – the ultimate bundle for photographers that provides all the essentials needed to manage colour from capture to editing in a photographic workflow; camera calibration, colour balance control and monitor calibration – this bundle, presented in a solid aluminium case, offers it all.
  Promotional price: £263 incl. VAT
• Spyder5STUDIO – a comprehensive toolkit for fine art printers, offering SpyderCUBE as the smartest grey card on the market, display calibration and printer profiling in a solid aluminium case.
  Promotional price: £262 incl. VAT

These promotional prices are valid until December 22, 2017 and can be obtained at a qualified reseller or in Datacolor’s online shop.

http://www.datacolor.com/winter-savings-2017-ema-en/?afftid=7011M00000137dh

TITAN Xp is the most powerful GPU you can put in your PC, and now we’re enabling even better performance with our latest TITAN drivers.

We built TITAN Xp for people who design and create — and, of course, play games. And it’s always getting better.

Our latest driver — available today — delivers 3x more performance in applications like Maya to help you create and design faster than ever.

You can now also use TITAN Xp with more PCs, including thin & light laptops, than ever before, and with external GPU chassis from a wide range of manufacturers including Asus, HP, Powercolor and Razer

Nvidea removed some artificial limits existing in driver.

Nvidia also mentioned premiere Pro among apps gaining big boost.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/121776/en-us