New light technology may improve color fidelity

[Leigh]

Can't find a section for lighting, so I'll put it here. After all, cameras need light.

A story on the BBC about a completely new lighting technology that can match the solar spectrum exactly:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553143

- Leigh

[Dr Klaus Schmitt]

Link doesn't work unfortunately...

[Leigh]

That's odd. It works fine for me. There's no registration required at the site.

- Leigh

[Walter Calahan]

link worked for me

[Mark MacKenzie]

Wow, fascinating, Leigh. Thank you. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get to market.

[Jim C.]

Interesting article, my guess is that it may first see use in flat screen TV's than lighting.

[Sevo]

Nope, still does not work, even when coming right from the BBC home page. And a couple of other Beeb links of today are dead ends as well. Looks like the Amazon/Akamai/or whatever cloud server they use has a trashed database on the end serving German providers...

[Rafal Lukawiecki]

Same in Ireland, link does not work at the moment, 404. I think Sevo is right, looks like a CDN/cache consistency issue.

[Nathan Potter]

Interesting. I'd like to see a plot of the spectral output to see how well it compares to a classic black body radiator in the visible region. A lower amount of IR heat would be welcome. I assume it would be a DC current device. Nice to know the efficiency of the experimental devices so far.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[Leigh]

It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get to market.

The article says they expect to start production in 2013. I'm sure it will just be test and evaluation runs initially.

Sevo and Rafal...
Sorry about the link problem. I and others have no problem with it.
You two might compare notes and see if you identify a common server or route that's having a problem.

- Leigh