Note: This is a highly visual episode and we recommend watching the video version on YouTube for the full experience: Hot Display Technologies from Display Week 2023 - The Display Show, Episode 21

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.

We'll see you next year in San Jose, CA at Display Week 2024!

Special thanks to:

Bryan Chan, SID Regional VP & E Ink Senior Director

Ji Jung Park, LG Display Business Team Representative

Chirag Shah, Samsung Display Director Marketing

James Kim, Sundiode Co-founder & CEO

Stephen Yi, Sundiode Co-founder & CTO

Kenichiro Masaoka, NHK Science & Technology Principal Research Engineer

Johan Bergquist, Den Consulting Consultant

Dr. Weiran Cao, TCL CSOT Director, IJP-OLED Development Center

CC Lee, Visionox Deputy General Manager

Jennifer Lin, AUO Senior Associate VP, Advanced Technology Research Center

Dean Collins, Tianma Director Marketing

Robert Dunhouse, Tianma Sr. Manager

Jeff Yurek, Nanosys VP Marketing

Links:

• SID Display Week: https://www.displayweek.org

• Chris Chinnock's technical description of Sundiode: https://youtu.be/_pybuCXxdq0

• Nanosys: https://nanosys.com

Today's guest is Paul Gray of Omdia. Paul leads Omdia’s home devices research, which spans television sets, smart homes, consumer electronics, and domestic appliances. His main research area is TV sets, focusing on the European region, broadcast technology, smart TV, and new TV features. Paul is also heavily engaged in researching the development of the Ultra HD ecosystem. Paul first joined Omdia more than 15 years ago. With over 30 years of experience in the TV set supply chain working for NXP and Philips in semiconductors and displays, Paul continues to research the TV business. Among others, Paul has been cited by the Financial Times, Korea Times, Korea Daily, Nikkei, and Le Monde. Paul holds a degree in electrical engineering and a diploma in industrial studies.

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.

Links:

*Omdia: https://omdia.tech.informa.com

*"Vergence-Accommodation Conflict Diagram" by RoseDaler / CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vergence-Accommodation_Conflict_Diagram.png

*Nanosys: https://nanosys.com

Episode 19 features Dr. Tara Akhavan, who is the founder and CEO of Faurecia IRYStec Inc., which makes eye-friendly display technology for the automotive industry. Tara is also Marketing Vice-chair for the Society for Information Display and she is active with the CIE. In this episode, Tara and Brian discuss how to succeed as an entrepreneur in the field of information display, growth prospects for displays in automobiles, the importance of resilience, especially for young female entrepreneurs, human perception, and SID.

Links:

*Faurecia: https://www.faurecia.com/

*Tara's TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnNCuylXR4

*Tara Akhavan, a perception story: https://www.faurecia.com/en/newsroom/tara-akhavan-perception-story

*ELLEvate Role Models: Tara Akhavan: https://youtu.be/k1GaEXautms

*SID Women in Technology: Moving Forward After a Setback: https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/msid.1321

*SID: https://www.sid.org

*Nanosys: https://nanosys.com

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.

Links:

*SID: https://www.sid.org

*Join SID: https://www.sid.org/New-Pages/Apply-and-Renew-Online

*SID Archives: https://www.sid.org/About-Us/Archives *Konica Minolta: https://www.konicaminolta.us

*Nanosys: https://nanosys.com

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.

Links:

*Ross on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DSCCRoss

*DSCC: https://www.displaysupplychain.com/team/ross-young

*SID: https://www.sid.org

*Nanosys: https://nanosys.com

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. Eric serves as a Senior Display Market and Technology Analyst at Yole Développement. Since 2009, Eric has contributed to numerous custom projects in the LED, sapphire and display industries and has authored multiple market reports. Eric has spoken at more than 25 industry conferences and has been interviewed or quoted by: The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, MIT’s Technology Review, and Photonic Spectra. Prior to Yole, he held various R&D, engineering, manufacturing and marketing positions with Saint-Gobain in France and the United States. Eric received his PhD in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble. 

Links:

* Yole Développement: http://www.yole.fr

* i-Micronews: https://www.i-micronews.com

* MicroLED Displays – Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2021: https://www.i-micronews.com/products/microled-displays-market-industry-and-technology-trends-2021/

* MicroLED Displays – Intellectual Property Landscape and Analysis 2021: https://www.i-micronews.com/products/microled-displays-intellectual-property-landscape-and-analysis-2021/

* iPad Pro miniLED backlight teardown and reverse costing analysis: https://www.systemplus.fr/deep-dive-into-apples-ipad-pros-miniled-backlight-how-the-company-balanced-cost-and-performance/

* Nanosys: https://www.nanosys.com

Note: This is a super visual episode so you may want to check out the YouTube version which features lots of video and animation: https://youtu.be/fgcl92y7HtU

Today, we’re going to be talking about Samsung’s new QD-Display, which was introduced at CES in January in new products from Dell, Samsung and Sony. Sometimes called "QD-OLED," Samsung's new QD-Display technology combines the Quantum Dots with OLED technology to create a new category of display.

This month's guest is Chirag Shah of Samsung Display. Chirag is speaking to us from South Korea, where he leads the go-to-market team for QD-Display at Samsung Display Company. He is a graduate of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management as well as an Electrical Engineer from Georgia Tech, and he’s passionate about bringing new technology to market. Chirag lives in Seoul with his wife and two boys. When not tinkering with tech, he loves to recreate ancient tandoori recipes in the kitchen.

Links:

• Sony A95K QD-OLED TV

• Dell Alienware QD-OLED Gaming Monitor

• Download IDMS v1.1

• Learn more about gamut rings (video)

• Learn more about QD-Display

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.

Links

• Schnelltest on YouTube

• Download HDR10+ Schnelltest MP4

• HDR for Nerds (YouTube)

• HDRmaster 8k (YouTube) 

• Download HDRmaster 8k software

• InformationDisplay article on IDMS-HDR: A Modern Guide to HDR Display Metrology

• Download IDMS v1.1

• FF Pictures website

• Sponsored by Nanosys

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.

Links

On the Calculation and Usage of HDR Static Content Metadata SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, August 2021 DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2021.3090176

Tested Perceptual Difference Between UHD-1/4K and UHD-2/8K SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, July 2020 DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2020.2999946

UHD Alliance Interoperability White Paper: https://bit.ly/3o0AIEN

Inside Out: https://youtu.be/OOO1DF1xIH0

The Great Gatsby: https://youtu.be/2zHHkSu1br4?t=63

WarnerMedia: https://www.warnermedia.com/us

Sponsored by Nanosys: www.nanosys.com

About Michael Zink

Michael is responsible for exploring emerging technologies to enhance Warner’s storytelling capabilities across different platforms. His work includes assessing the latest technologies, developing innovative experiences, and integrating new solutions into creative production workflows. Michael started with Warner Brothers in 2014, and he is the first representative of the content creation community to join us on the Display Show. Prior to joining Warner, he was at Technicolor Incorporated for over ten years, where among other roles he was Vice President of Technology Strategy. Earlier in his career, Michael worked for several media production facilities in Germany. In addition to his VP role at Warner, Michael is also President and Chairman of the UHD Alliance, and as of this year he is Education Vice President at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, or SMPTE for short. Michael is a SMPTE Fellow and a major influencer within and around the creative community.

Episode 12 features Paul Gagnon, Senior Research Director for Consumer Devices at Omdia. Paul has had a long-term focus on the TV market among other areas. At Omdia, he leads a team of analysts who study the consumer electronics and digital signage industries.

In this episode Paul and Brian discuss what's important to consumers, premium market, and migration of features to the mainstream. The two also touch on how in terms of the display industry, recent past performance is not a guarantee of future results.