#21 Hot Display Technologies from Display Week 2023

We're back and live from the show floor! Join host Brian Berkeley to tour the most exciting displays and display technologies at Display Week 2023 in Los Angeles, California. This year we take a look at the latest rollable/flexible and ink jet printed displays, new developments in OLED/ microLED/ mini-LED displays, display metrology tools, and everything in between.

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#20 Paul Gray of Omdia

Today's guest is Paul Gray of Omdia. In this episode, Paul and Brian talked about how the viewing experience is more important than specsmanship, lifestyle effects on viewing patterns, differences between the European markets versus North America, what vinyl records have in common with displays, and the fact that viewers watch content, not screens.

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#18 Takatoshi Tsujimura of Konica Minolta

Today's guest is Takatoshi Tsujimura, who is the most recent past-president of the Society for Information Display and is Technology Fellow at Konica Minolta in Tokyo, Japan. Brian and Taka-san discuss recent important developments at SID, how SID supports both commercial and academic interests for the display world, the recent Display Week held in San Jose, California, key goals for SID, how OLEDs were potentially considered dead in 2008, and some hints about exciting OLED development activity at Konica Minolta.

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#17 Ross Young of DSCC at SID Display Week 2022

Today's guest is Ross Young. In this episode, Ross and Brian discuss the new technologies shown at SID Display Week 2022 right from the show floor. Ross Young is co-founder and CEO of DSCC. Previously, he started, ran and sold DisplaySearch which he started with less than $500 in capital and grew to over $10M in revenues. He has also worked throughout the display supply chain including at a TV brand, panel supplier, multiple equipment suppliers and a materials supplier.

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#16 MicroLEDs with Eric Virey of Yole Développement

Today’s guest is Dr. Eric Virey. In this episode, Eric and Brian discussed Mini-LED and especially MicroLED displays. They covered the definition of mini versus microLEDs, the importance of microLEDs to Apple and their disruptive approach to microLED displays, the Cambrian Explosion in technology including QD-microLEDs, and microLED display adoption trends and product forecasts. MicroLED displays are a hot topic in the display industry and there are very few people in the world who know more about this field than Eric Virey.

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#14 Florian Friedrich of FF Pictures

Today’s guest is Florian Friedrich. Florian lives and works in the Munich area of Germany, where he is CEO of his company, FF Pictures. He is an expert on display testing, color grading, and high dynamic range technology just to name a few areas. Among many roles, he is chair of the HDR Subcommittee of the ICDM. Prior to FF Pictures, he ran an ISO-certified test laboratory, AVTOP, for about 20 years. Florian has collaborated with measurement device manufacturers such as Teledyne and Quantum Data, he’s HDR-remastered over two dozen movies, and he has unique understanding of display requirements for modern content.

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#13 Michael Zink of WarnerMedia

Today’s guest is Michael Zink, who works in Burbank, CA at WarnerMedia, where he is Vice President of Emerging & Creative Technologies. In today's discussion, Michael and Brian talk about colors in outer space, looking beyond Pointer’s Gamut, display requirements for Hollywood content, some of the more challenging movie scenes, the importance of maintaining creative intent, the origins of “Filmmaker Mode”, and a call to action to display makers.

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#11 Jason Hartlove of Nanosys

The DisplayWeek episode features special guest Jason Hartlove, President and CEO of Nanosys. Jason and Brian go way back, long before Jason took over the reins at Nanosys. The two talk about developing the world’s first optical mouse, discussed life in Korea, and focus on the significant role that quantum dots play in the display industry today.

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#10 Helge Seetzen on Building Start-ups

Episode 10 features Helge Seetzen, a serial entrepreneur, a recent past-president of SID, and CEO of Tandem Launch which is based in Montreal, Canada. In this episode, Brian and Helge talked about what it takes to run a technology incubator, we heard the rest of the story about burning display demos that we first learned about from Ajit in Episode #9, and we spoke about SID’s current and future path.

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#9 Ajit Ninan of Dolby Labs

Episode 9 features Ajit Ninan, Vice President of Engineering at Dolby Labs and an early pioneer of everything from Full Array local dimming HDR, to Quantum Dot displays, to Augmented and Virtual Reality. In this episode, Brian and Ajit talked about the origins of Dolby Vision (did you know that it started as a 2,000 nit taillight simulator for automobiles?), melted LCD films, burning display demos in early HDR displays, introduced the critical "potted palm" display quality metric, Ray Dolby’s involvement in HDR, solving for director’s intent across a range of technologies and products, AR/VR, and more.

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#8 Roland Wooster of Intel and VESA

Roland Wooster joins Brian Berkeley for an update on VESA's popular DisplayHDR certification program. DisplayHDR has been used to certify the HDR performance of over 600 PC, monitor and notebook products to date. Roland shares some of the history of the HDR certification efforts within VESA, the most recent updates to DisplayHDR version 1.1, and what to look for in future versions.

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