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Haier’s New TV Will be a Doctor on Your Wall

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Haier unveiled a range of new products and – as always – concepts for the future. The company has shown wirelessly-powered and thought-controlled TVs in the past; this year, it demonstrated the U9000 modular …

Tags:Haier| IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Barco Takes Board Seat in 3D Society

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Barco has become a founding member of the International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society. Wim Buyens, SVP of entertainment, is now a member of the 3D Society’s executive committee and board of governors. The …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Back Panel| Barco| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Barco’s Laser Snags BIRTV Award

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Barco’s 6p laser projector, the DP4K-60L, has won an award for its design and performance at the 2014 Beijing International Radio, TV & Film Equipment Exhibition (BIRTV). Judges particularly highlighted the projector’s high framerate …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Volfoni Chosen by Asia Cinema

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Volfoni’s Smartcrystal Diamond 3D technology has been installed in the showroom shared by Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures Releasing, at Asia Cinema’s Moscow location. The passive 3D system uses a ‘triple beam’ technology, …

Tags:3D Cinema| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Passive 3D| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

TiVo’s STB Uses Broadcom

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Broadcom’s BCM7445 SoC is being used in TiVo’s newest UltraHD set-top box. According to Broadcom, the SoC enables the display of UltraHD at 60fps, using the Rec.2020 colour standard.

Tags:Back Panel| Broadcom| Large Display Monitor| SOCs| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Sky Chooses Canon for Post-Production

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Canon’s DP-V3010 professional reference monitor (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 43) is to be installed in three of Sky’s high-end post-production suites in London.

Tags:Back Panel| Broadcast Monitors| Canon| Large Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

SID Discusses Display Tech in Europe

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SID will hold a Mid-Europe Meeting Programme on the 9th and 10th October this year, in Stuttgart. Topics covered on the first day will include OLED and liquid crystal technologies, as well as flexible …

Tags:Back Panel| Europe| Large Display Monitor| SID Society| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Samsung Passes Printing and Picture Certifications

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The 31.5″ UD970 monitor (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3), from Samsung, has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories, T

Tags:Back Panel| Colour Critical Monitors| Fogra| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Gold is the New Black for Consoles

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Do you suffer from a lack of ‘bling’ in your living room? Are your white consoles just too pass

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| PlayStation| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| xBox

DivX Makes HEVC Wins

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Several new companies have been announced with products using the DivX HEVC solution. TVs from Toshiba (see Product News); LG (UltraHD models); and TCL have been named as using the format. Additionally, Wohler has …

Tags:Back Panel| Divx| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

DivX Certifies MStar

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MStar’s HEVC TV SoC will be the first digital TV chip to receive DivX’s HEVC Certification. The Certification means that the SoC can playback HEVC UltraHD video using the DivX codec.

Tags:Back Panel| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| SOCs| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Cypress’ Controller Enables Slim Huawei Tablet

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The Mediapad X1 is Huawei’s 7″ tablet: the world’s thinnest, the company claims, at 7.18mm. USA-based Cypress Semiconductor says that the thin body is partly enabled by its Truetouch Gen5 TMA568 capacitive touchscreen controller. …

Tags:Back Panel| Huawei| Large Display Monitor| tablets| Touch Controllers| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21