CIOPH : New era of Home Entertainment Starts Now- One closer to my youth's dream

[Peter CINERAMAX]

CINERAMAX IMMERSIVE OVERLOOK PENTHOUSE- My Childhood dream since watching the Jetsons with Their big screens that could be seen while looking out at the clouds is now materialising. 50 years late. Better Late than never.







I have really grown to HATE the current state of Home Theater, with the stupid cinema decoration, the low hdr screens, the blu laser projectors, and ATMOS SO SO BAD it sounds like glorified 7.1. I CALL IT QUITS. IT HAS GONE COMPLETELY DOWNHILL AND THE WHOLE INDUSTRY NEEDS A FRESH RE-START.

NO MORE STUPID DARK CAVERNOUS HOME THEATER with it's horrendous low contrast unrealistic images. THAT DARK CHAPTER IS NOW KAPUT Thanks to Samsung LED CINEMA Wall.

This completely enlightening paradigm shift has been made possible only because the cameras have begun capturing what i saw growing up in the spectacular vistas of the caribbean.




For 40 years I have toiled to be able to recreate the vistas such as those of Drake's Seat atop USVI. It just happens that the most powerful executive in the world of LED WALLS agrees that Samsung is aspiring to recreate that very same image reference that said executive has been travelling to yearly for 30 years precisely in the right month of the year.

[donaldk]

Peter Sony and mobile communications telco NTT Docomo just publized it is replacing vehicle windows with 4K LCD displays, fed by 35mm imagers. It is a three person bus that does 19 KmH guided by the camera's and lidar. Yup the claim is we can make LCDs that rival looking out a window.



https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2017/1102_01.html

[Peter CINERAMAX]

2 full months before launch my SOLFAR Immersive Overlook Penthouse in Beautiful and traffic free San Diego California will be the very first double (or partial double wall 5.6k) THE WALL.

I took my supervillain 007 nemesis client Ernst Stavro Blofeld to check out The Wall, his opinion see here.

https://youtu.be/9cW-D5Mj2ZU

I can now tell what a 8 bit videowall and 10 bit videowall looks like in color volume, seen enough of them to pinpoint from afar, the wall looks to me closer to like 12 bit video, perhaps due to the HDR10+ that good it is.

[donaldk]

Will the Wall be at ISE next week?

[Peter CINERAMAX]

Yes my friend the director of NADO display will be there, go say hello Steven Choi.

[MrPixels]

It is sounding like ISE is going to be a good show. Peter have you seen or heard about the Stewart screen material designed to be placed in front of the video wall. The intent is to hide the panel borders and blend the pixels allowing for closer viewing distance.

[donaldk]

Last year Stewart showed an anti moire front of led wall screen. It came up wih something else? Blended pixels=larger pixels=lower resolution= greater viewing distance

[Peter CINERAMAX]

The team at Samsung was laughing about the Stewart AM screen at CES as there is no way to keep it up close to the led wall and as it separates the air gap is inconsistent severely degrading the image quality, This was invented by Grant Stewart about 1 year before he passed away mainly to depixelate large calibre led walls.

Yes it is interesting that you will be able to compare samsung, vs silicon core which are the 2 best units. Also that nec projector I would be interested in opinions. HDFURY will be there. Donald Can you ask them if a dolby vision players output can be fed into their unit and convert dynamic metadata to HDR10+ that is something i need here, i do have their new unit just have not played with it.

After seeing the large 2.4mm samsung I am not worried about seeing seams, at first I was alarmed but those koreans that got there xmas day dialed in PERFECTLY WHERE IT WAS TOTALLY SEAMLESS, same type of display that concerned me so much on the first trip to samsung, now the Wall was a pre production sample and on the upper right corner we did see one dark line, meaning a z axis misadjustment. It did have a contrast enhancing glass in front but i believe that with practice the final production tiles can be made to look excellently uniform.

[donaldk]

I was intrigued by Bob's remark in his Display Daily article yesterday:

Analyst Comment
I'm pleased to see that Yole shares my view that what Samsung (with 'The Wall') and Lumens showed at CES is not really microLED, but just very good examples of the current leading edge in conventional LED. It's not the first time that Samsung has used its marketing money to hijack a perfectly useful technical term for its own purposes. I doubt it will be the last! - Bob Raikes<\q>

Of course the explaination is in an to be paid for article:  Lumens Idea of MicroLED is not Really MicroLED.

Nigel was very impressed with the 1.1mm LG at ISE last year he posted/said at the time, together with the SiliconCore.

Absen will be showing COB.

I am sure there will be other goodies, as everyone with an LED Wall is there. But you are no longer concerned with rec. 709 limit?

We need someting like this for these 'tiles', lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4eD1OMnFOI

HDFury is circumventing the no sales restrictio by taking orders at its booth with pick-up in a truck outside;-).

[Peter CINERAMAX]

Sorry Donald i do not find that video useful.

In my opinion rear service is something a videophile would want to have. Not All systems have that luxury, the installation then becomes quite laborious as you have to instal gauge the z misadjustment ( black line), remove the tiles do a full turn on 1 to 4 screws , re-install and assess again. Isolating the frame is a good idea, the frame needs to be perfectly leveled of course, tilting forward may complicate the adjustments a bit more.

The fact is however that I have seen a samsung system and deemed it improbable to get perfect and then 3 months later the same system was absolutely perfect. I am talking about the large wall that will likely be outside the samsung booth at ISE. there were huge swaths of perfectly lined up panels at CES.

Not so when i went up to corporate in October.

I did catch one z misadjustment on the upper right corner of The Wall at CES, in my opinion if you see the same at ISE, based on Samsungs track record with the 2.4mm that should be outside the booth, the wall should be equally perfect if installed by the right hands and eagle eye.

I think you will find that the tile structure consistency is superior in The Wall than in Silicon Core, but then again the Wall will have a contrast enhancing glass pane in front of it, as in CES.

Anyways good luck at ISE and those that attend please report your findings.

[MrPixels]

Good work Peter, its coming together. It will be the Icing on the Cake when they offer wider aspect ratios.

[donaldk]

I find it noteworthy to hear you stress the requirement of rear access, as the trend in LED Wall, commercial application, is the complete opposite. Manufacturers are stressing how they now offer front servicability. As it reduces not only space requirement, structural requirements, heat removal requirement, and of course ease service access and service time.

Are we going to see a discongruence in requirements again, like we saw in high-end projection, where on-off, dynamic contrast, black floor, HDR were never as important in the primary markets.

Samsung has a smaller hall all to itself. Somewhat enclosed. The advantage for Samsung is that there is a lift going to office rooms above, this offers complete control of who gets to go up and see the new stuff.

I don't know if we will see all the big stuff Samsung brought to Las Vegas. But I hope the Wall will be there. The big moving display you saw at CES was not there either. Would be too much to expect Samsung fly this huge freight over straight after CES. So, Peter do you have confirmation that the Wall will be there?

[Peter CINERAMAX]

yES IT WILL BE THERE.

[donaldk]

Indeed it was, with the shiny glass surface in front. 0.84mm equivalent. I asked Bob Raikes what he meant by saying it is not really micro-LED. LEDs too large in his book, others say anything below 100 micron is micro, and the Samsung LEDs in the Wall are 80 micron.

Also an HDR labelled 1.2 mm display on the wall at the entrance of the booth. Samsung must also have an 0.9mm in its product line up somewhere. But on show was the well known IF line mostly 1.5mm.

Guess what they also managed to rough in with black walls under a white ceiling... The LED Cinema! 2K version that the Samsung representative expects to be DCi certified around May. There will also be an 4K 45 Ft version with larger pitch (3.0?). The 8K will be 64 Ft.

[donaldk]

HDFURY will be there. Donald Can you ask them if a dolby vision players output can be fed into their unit and convert dynamic metadata to HDR10+ that is something i need here, i do have their new unit just have not played with it.<\q>

It took some searching, but I found the booth and "yes you can" "So you don't have to buy a new LG". So you are prepared for the 'The Donald TV'.