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Barco Upgrades Prometheus 3 Chip DLP Projector

by Bob Raikes

Barco’s high end home cinema group, Barco Residential, has launched the latest version of its high end, three chip DLP Prometheus III projector which has a laser light source. The unit supports native 4K …

Tags:Barco| DLP Projectors| Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Parade Introduces USB Type-C Retimer for DP HBR3

by Bob Raikes

Parade Technologies has a new USB Type-C 10 Gigabits/sec retimer, the PS8818, that supports both USB 3.1 Gen 2 and DisplayPort 1.4a Alternate Mode. The PS8818 is designed to drive the USB Type-C receptacle …

Tags:Chips| DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| USB| Vol 25 - Issue 34

Asus Expands Use of ScreenPad

by Bob Raikes

Asus had plenty to show us and the company, this year, was back in the Messe after being just in the centre of Berlin for some years. We were pleased, as it is hard …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| GPUs| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 34| WiGIG

IFA 2018 Catch Up

by Bob Raikes

After major shows, there are always a few items that slipped by us at the time and we report some from IFA. Huawei impressed with its new Kirin 980 chip and the Honor sub-brand …

Tags:Huawei| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 34

Epson Supports Drones with Moverio

by Bob Raikes

Epson announced the Epson Drone Soar app, claimed to be the first full-featured AR app for DJI drone pilots using the Epson Moverio AR Smart glasses. The app is said to deliver ‘never-before-seen’ AR …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Aviation| Epson| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 33

PRN Has Three New Digital Solutions for Pharmacies

by Bob Raikes

PRN Health, which is part of the Stratacache group of companies, showed three new display solutions for pharmacies at a trade show in the US. The Lift process makes special offers on related products …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Medical| POS| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Ray Tracing Explained

by Bob Raikes

Over the last couple of weeks, since the announcement of the Turing GPU at Siggraph and Gamescon, we have talked to a number of people that really didn’t know what we meant by ray …

Tags:Back Panel| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| ray tracing| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Optoma Launches New Ultra Short Throw Series

by Bob Raikes

Optoma has just launched a new range of bright ultra short throw DLP-based projectors designed for businesses, schools and colleges. The new range includes Full HD 1080p, 1280 x 800 (WXGA) and 1024 x …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| UST Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Fitbit Charge 3 Has Upgraded OLED

by Bob Raikes

Fitbit has upgraded its fitness tracker to the Chrge 3. It has an enhanced PurePulse heart rate sensor in addition to the SpO2 blood oxygen sensor that’s present in the Versa and Ionic smartwatches …

Tags:Fitbit| Fitness Trackers| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 33| Wearables

IFA and IBC Beckon….

by Bob Raikes

I have a brief moment of pausing for breath on the news side today, as I have finished the Siggraph report and IFA is still six days away, although the number of meeting requests, …

Tags:Editorial| GPUs| IBC 2018| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 32

LDM Product Roundup Vol 25 #33

by Bob Raikes

LG Electronics is now making an ‘open frame’ version of it 55″ commercial curved OLED panel available to integrators. The panel has output of 400 cd/m² and FullHD resolution. The curve can be convex …

Tags:HDBaseT| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Siggraph 2018 Immersive Pavillion Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Although the announcements from Nvidia and StarVR were highlights of the show, and there were plenty of vendors on the floor, there was also an ‘Experience Hall’ for start-ups and research projects as well …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Augmented Reality| Codecs| Human Visual System (HVS)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Projectors| Siggraph 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 32