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Canon votes to dissolve and liquidate SED Inc., its for flat-panel displays based on surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) display technology. Liquidation will be completed by late December.

Why liquidation? You can read their frank explanation via the link below to their press release. But it doesn't take a genius to figure that the economy and the market changed.

And gone are the days when Japan can afford a 20-year plan to steadfastly and valiantly pursue what they believe in against the reality of cash and commercial viability.

SED was a pet project of Canon Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai, who dreamed of a Canon logo on commercial & consumer screens…a wonderful dream for a camera company if you see where digital display is headed.

Despite the tombstone photo which we made up, Canon plans to continue its SED panel-related research but the rest of industry seems to have written SED off as no longer a cost-effective entrant in display with falling prices.

Enough SED?

Go Canon SED: No More

The World Cup has just ended, but that only means the next World Cup is beginning. And why stop there? Several World Cups must surely exist in parallel universes as well as the fact that Japan is seriously working on its bid for the 2022 competition.

One of Japan's sales points hopes to be a promise that the country's AV experts can pull off live holographic broadcasts of World Cup matches.

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, a government-funded lab has already developed a system for real-time color holography of 3D moving objects. Tiny toy trucks and other objects on a rotating stand are photographed using a lens array and a 4K2K video camera with 3840 x 2160 pixels in natural light.

Holograms are generated from these images by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), adding in red, green and blue planes. An array of four PCs is used to calculate the holograms and three 4K2K LCDs, in concert with optical lasers, display the holograms in color.

The NICT teams plans to move up to 8K Super HV cameras in time for the CEATEC show this October in Tokyo, but holographic broadcasts will still require a thousand times or more (resolution) than current high-definition systems.

Can Japan win its World Cup bid by dangling technology? Time will tell if their shot is on goal… or into the crowd.

Go Japan's Looking at 2022 World Cup

Capitalising on the need for TV set designers, broadcasters and events producers to create ever more dynamic and visually stimulating backdrops, Sweden's Dataton brings its multi-image display solution to IBC.

Fredrik Svahnberg, Marketing Director at Dataton, says: "In live events production for TV, there's a revolution going on in front of the camera, as well as behind it. Set designers and content creators are under huge pressure to create compelling graphic and video images which can catch the viewer's eye without detracting attention from a show's main message or performance..."

Now at Version 4.2 of its development, WATCHOUT combines multiple projectors or other display devices with standard computer and network technology to create presentations of almost any size. The production computer uses a familiar timeline-based user interface to build each audiovisual show, then distributes the relevant media files to the display computers to run the show.

WATCHOUT preserves the full resolution of projectors, flat panels, video cubes and LED screens, maintaining image quality, regardless of the size of the total display area. Displays can also be arranged at any angle, in any shape or form, while overlapping projected images are edge-blended automatically.

Also being demonstrated at IBC is Systems Manager, a new Dataton tool that allows graphic user interfaces to be created for remote control, programming and scheduling of WATCHOUT.

This year, more than two dozen World Expo 2010 pavilions in Shanghai made use of the system (over 130 WATCHOUT-equipped computers producing the AV show in the Macau pavilion alone).

Photo: Game show (Minute to Win It) broadcast across USA by NBC uses Dataton WATCHOUT for video audience background. Image courtesy of Background Images.

Go WATCHOUT for Dataton at IBC

Teradici's PC-over-IP technology keeps large video and animation files in the server room and off the desktop.

This PC-over-IP protocol compresses, encrypts and encodes computing at the data center and transmits it "pixels only" across a standard IP network to PCoIP-enabled desktop devices.

PC-over-IP technology allows enterprise PCs and workstations to be centrally managed in a data center while providing high res, full frame rate 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB peripheral interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency WAN.

PC-over-IP is a display protocol technology that enables the practical consolidation of all IT resources into a data center, eliminates the need for desktop workstations, PCs and thin clients. It delivers user experience to each desk, anywhere, without incurring the security risks associated with transmitting data across a network or having data reside in remote PCs.

PC-over-IP technology is delivered in both hardware and software implementations. PCoIP-enabled devices are available from third party vendors, including integrated displays, desktop portals and server plug-ins.

The PCoIP protocol, as a display, encryption and remote-application technology, lets you can work with anyone, anywhere, using any 3D application without sending data files or having a workstation tied to the desk.

You can instantly share video in full HD, work with remote studios or work from home, centralize all your technology and workstations – and even offer remote collaborative post production, visual effects, and animation.

PC-over-IP technology can be applied to single monitor systems for mainstream knowledge workers to multi-monitor systems for high-end power users.

Entertainment, Healthcare, Design& Manufacturing, Financial and Government are a few of the target markets.

Go PCoIP, Video Stays in the Server