Most courts throughout North America have failed to keep up with visual evidence presentation technologies, even though the source image quality continues to march forward.

In today’s surveillance environment, it is common for investigators to recover large format video with pixel matrices above 1920 x 1080 pixels, some exceeding 5000 pixels in both height and width. Yet, most courtrooms are still limited to presenting their digital video files on low-resolution flat-screen monitors, or worse, on projection systems that significantly alter the visual evidence. Litigators who rely on projection systems to display their video images are very likely depriving the court’s trier of fact of the full value and meaning of their evidence. Likewise, deploying undersized flat-screen monitors removes image detail and can often obfuscate the most critical aspects of evidence in a case.