{"title":"Business Conference Looks Toward Future Technologies","authors":"Bob Raikes","doi":"10.1002/msid.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Business Conference returned to SID leadership and a panel-driven format, placing greater emphasis on display technologies while broadening analyst participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 5","pages":"62-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148974945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alex Henzen, Todd Rockoff, Rob Hannebauer, Siddhartha Chatterjee
{"title":"Sampled Analog Video Transport: High Accuracy, Zero Visible Compromise","authors":"Alex Henzen, Todd Rockoff, Rob Hannebauer, Siddhartha Chatterjee","doi":"10.1002/msid.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Technology delivers 10× greater bandwidth efficiency than conventional display drivers, enabling future high-performance displays within existing power and cost constraints.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 5","pages":"6-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148974871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate Members and Index to Advertisers","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/msid.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148974898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MicroLEDs: Many Markets, One Hard Problem","authors":"Chris Chinnock","doi":"10.1002/msid.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From AR glasses and transparent dashboards to stretchable skins and the data-center interconnect pivot, microLEDs are finding new applications faster than a path to volume production.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 5","pages":"38-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148974965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Season of Innovation and Insight","authors":"Stephen P. Atwood","doi":"10.1002/msid.70093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>AFTER A BUSY SUMMER, WE ARE PLEASED TO BRING YOU ANOTHER</b> issue filled with interesting reading as you return from your summer vacations and settle in for the shorter days and longer nights of fall. Writing this in early August from New England, talking about autumn feels a bit premature, but such is the reality of our publishing calendar. I am still enjoying the last weeks of summer at our camp and looking forward to a few more outdoor adventures before the season changes.</p><p>By the time you read this in September, the November/December issue will already be in review, and we are developing editorial content for early 2027. This is the time of year when we plan the 2027 content, so if you have ideas for a technical theme you would like to see in these pages or if you have an innovative story to share, we would love to hear from you. We are always eager to consider new topics and perspectives from across the display community.</p><p>This issue contains our traditional Display Week (DW) 2026 reports carefully developed by our extraordinary team of “roving reporters,” as we like to call them. They look for the most noteworthy achievements and groundbreaking demonstrations and bring them all to you in their comprehensive articles.</p><p>This year we have nine contributions (a new record!) covering everything notable, including the keynotes, business conference, panels and roundtables, I-Zone, and all the major technology topics. I am extremely excited about this package that features content from Bob Raikes, Tom Fiske, Rasha Hamze, Dave Eccles, Karlheinz Blankenbach, Chris Chinnock, Glen Dickson, and Lori Wilson. Give them all a tip of your hat! I can't find enough words to truly thank them for all their great efforts and dedication to this very important mission.</p><p>If you attended DW this year, much of what follows may be familiar. But you may also discover important developments you missed amid the event's packed schedule. If you were not at DW, these articles offer comprehensive overviews of all the important headlines and themes you missed. Display Week is notable because the content and exhibitions include so many categories of technology and innovation as well as provide an important barometer for the health and prospects of many display applications. It is a crucial component in the success path for our industry, and hopefully these review articles will help you see how valuable attending DW can be for you and your teams.</p><p>Display electronics is an important area of innovation that underpins many of the industry's recent advances, yet it rarely attracts the attention given to displays themselves. Some of the most important contributions have been creating high-speed digital video data channels to deliver the extremely high bandwidth pixel data required by today's high-resolution and high-refresh-rate displays. Once received, the data are processed by display driver ICs (DDICs), which convert the digital signals into the a","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 5","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148974900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augmented Reality Leads the Next Wave of XR Innovation","authors":"Dave Eccles","doi":"10.1002/msid.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Advances in microLEDs, waveguides, and AI are bringing XR eyewear closer to mass adoption, but standardization and scalable manufacturing remain challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 5","pages":"46-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148974966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SMPTE Panel Identifies Great Progress and Significant New Challenges","authors":"Chris Chinnock","doi":"10.1002/msid.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A standing-room-only audience for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) panel on the Center Stage in the Exhibit Hall at Display Week 2026 convened three voices with distinctly different vantage points on the display ecosystem: Michael Zink, vice president of Strategic Partnerships at LG Electronics; Jeremy Hochman, CEO and cofounder of Megapixel; and Matthew Brantley, CTO of 6P Color. Moderated by Juan Reyes, president of Tech Align Group and chair of the SMPTE Hollywood Section, the 45-minute session—titled <i>Beyond the Screen: How M&E Innovation Is Shaping Next-Gen Displays</i>—spanned topics from the intensifying consumer TV brightness race to deeper questions around creative intent in an era defined by increasingly heterogeneous display environments (<b>Fig.</b> 1).</p><p>What emerged was a picture of an industry that has achieved extraordinary technical progress over the past decade, even as that progress has introduced new—and often more difficult—challenges for both content creators and display manufacturers.</p><p>The panel's most important contributions were conceptual rather than technical. Concepts such as the shift from static to differential creative intent, the distinction between calibration and characterization, the reframing of high dynamic range (HDR) as a perceptual tool rather than a peak-luminance specification, and the case for decoupling color data containers from display primaries carry meaningful practical implications. Together, they offer a framework for navigating the industry's transition toward a display ecosystem that is more capable, heterogenous, and inherently complex.</p><p>Zink opened by stepping back to frame the past 10 years of TV development. He noted that roughly a decade ago, the UHD Alliance was compelled to split its Premium Ultra HD specification into two separate tracks: one for high-brightness LCD panels and the other for high-contrast OLED panels. The two technologies occupied fundamentally different positions on the brightness-versus-contrast axis, and no single display could satisfy both at once.</p><p>That constraint, Zink argued, has effectively dissolved. The convergence of miniLED backlighting, local dimming zone densification, OLED panel efficiency gains, and the emergence of microLED as a self-emissive technology means that multiple display technologies can simultaneously satisfy both the high-brightness and high-contrast requirements that once forced the specification split. OLED peak luminance, he noted, has roughly tripled over the past five years—a figure that would have seemed implausible at the time the original UHD Alliance specs were written.</p><p>Zink was careful to note, however, that the proliferation of display technologies has produced a consumer-facing nomenclature problem that the industry has largely failed to address. The current landscape—LED, miniLED, RGB LED, micro-RGB, OLED, quantum dot (QD) OLED, and microLED—presents shoppers with a t","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 4","pages":"46-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Display Week 2026 Highlights","authors":"Editorial Staff","doi":"10.1002/msid.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This key event for the display industry brought together the brightest minds, breakthrough technologies, and leading companies shaping the future of innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 4","pages":"39-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}