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.

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.

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: https://electronics.sony.com/tv-video/televisions/all-tvs/p/xr65a95k • Dell Alienware QD-OLED Gaming Monitor: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22855531/alienware-curved-34-inch-qd-oled-samsung-gaming-monitor-specs • Download IDMS v1.1: https://www.sid.org/Standards/ICDM#8271483-idms-download • Learn more about gamut rings: https://youtu.be/ZGT1UADx-rA?t=485 • Learn more about QD-Display: https://innovate.samsungdisplay.com

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. Links Dolby Labs: https://www.dolby.com​ Paintings of the Moulin Rouge: https://fineartamerica.com/art/painti...​ Nanosys: https://www.nanosysinc.com​​ Contents 00:00​​ – Intro & Credits 02:20​​ – Ajit Intro & current work at Dolby 04:18​​ – Isn't Dolby an "audio" company? 05:20​​ – Origins of HDR at Dolby 09:42​​ – Creating Dolby Pulsar: melted diffusers and liquid cooling 11:49​​ – Ray Dolby involvement in HDR? 12:23​​ – Early HDR demos & burning displays(!) 14:13​​ – Dolby Vision: delivering director's intent 16:58​​ – Future Strategy for Dolby Vision 18:22​​ – Importance of Standardization for Dolby 20:48​​ – Qualifying Dolby Vision displays 21:51​​ – 4,000 nit displays are impossible? 25:53​​ – Ninan's Nine: top 9 most important visual quality & comfort display metrics 28:37​​ – Introducing the "Potted Palm" display test 30:16​​ – Future of BT.2020 color gamut: Nature is limited to Pointer's Gamut, stories are not 33:56​​ – Quantum Dot movie screens + lasers?! 36:23​ – AR/VR work at Dolby 38:25​ – Future display technology needs: brightness and color gamut 41:06​ – A 10,000 nit Quantum Dot display?! 42:06​ – Who's Jeff? 42:59​ – Wrap-up + Moulin Rouge? Ajit Ninan's full bio: Among many activities, Ajit has been one of the key drivers of Dolby’s transition from an audio-only company into the world of video. He has been instrumental in Dolby’s development of high dynamic range imaging technologies, which includes HDR hardware, specifically the Pulsar 4000-nit monitor which was one of the first HDR monitors ever, and importantly, the development of Dolby Vision from its inception with a small team to where it is today. Ajit built one of the first locally-dimmed quantum dot TVs to enable delivery of HDR with wide color gamut. HIs educational background is in computer science and computer engineering. He authored the JPEG-XT documents, aka JPEG HDR, and worked on network protocols such as 802.17. I hear he has also been doing some amazing work on Augmented and Virtual Reality. He holds over 400 patents in fields related to imaging, color, video, audio, and networking. He is also a Fellow of the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers, or SMPTE for short, and he got the AIS Lumiere award for “Pioneering HDR in Hollywood”.