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NEC USA Enjoying New Products

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display Solutions had its traditional place on the show floor at the event and because we recently reported from the Showcase in London, there was not a lot of new hardware for us …

Tags:Infocomm 2018| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Tianma Still Bullish on Smartphones and Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes in Taiwan has published a substantial interview with Tianma President, Sun Yongmao which is enjoying its position as the largest supplier of LTPS panels by the end of 2017, usurping JDI and with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Tianma| Vol 25 - Issue 25

ALi and iWedia Promote Joint Hybrid DVB+OTT STB

by Bob Raikes

ALi Corporation, the developer of Set-Top Box (STB) chipsets and iWedia, a provider of software solutions for TV devices to service operators and CE makers, announced that they have joined forces to provide a …

Tags:4k| DRM & Content Protection| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| STBs| Vol 25 - Issue 25

DPI Introduces its 8K Projector

by Bob Raikes

Digital Projection Inc held a special press event before the show on the Thursday morning. We dragged ourselves out of bed early to get there. There were five new projectors and a new LED …

Tags:Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| DLP Projectors| Infocomm 2018| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 23

LG Has Lots of OLEDs at Infocomm

by Bob Raikes

We started off on the LG booth looking at the company’s LED technology which was being shown with a 1.5mm pitch. The technology is also available at 1mm and 2mm and the company told …

Tags:Infocomm 2018| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| Thin Clients| Video Walls| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Hitachi Booth is ‘All Laser’

by Bob Raikes

Hitachi’s booth was ‘all laser’ although the company is still, of course, selling lamp-based products. The first product we looked at was the KP-AW4001 which was shown at ISE (Hitachi Shows First UST L/P …

Tags:Education| Hitachi| Infocomm 2018| Large Display Monitor| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| Vol 25 - Issue 23

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ZTE Trump Deal Stopped by US Senate

by Bob Raikes

Although Donald Trump said that he would help ZTE to get over the decision by the FTC to ban the company from buying components from US suppliers (ZTE is on Again, But For How …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 25| ZTE

Eizo 5 Megapixel Monitor uses LTPS

by Bob Raikes

Eizo Corp announced the RadiForce GX560, a 21.3″ which is a 5 megapixel (2048 x 2560) monochrome medical monitor designed for viewing mammography and breast tomosynthesis. Eizo said that it comes with space saving …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Samsung To Double Down on LED

by Bob Raikes

Samsung had an area on its booth that was showing future products. We spotted a number of competitors that had got onto the booth by borrowing badges from other companies! The amount of information …

Tags:Display Controllers| Infocomm 2018| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Outdoor Displays| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Aoto Moves MiniLED to Generation 2 for HDR

by Bob Raikes

Just as Unilumin uses the ROE brand for its rental business, Aoto has acquired GTek and that means that AOTO can focus on fixed installation projects. Aoto showed us its ‘2nd generation’ miniLED displays …

Tags:Infocomm 2018| Large Display Monitor| MiniLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 25 - Issue 23| Waterproof Displays

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AAC Technologies and Elliptic Labs to Partner on Ultrasound

by Bob Raikes

Elliptic Labs and AAC Technologies have done a deal that will see AAC delivering designs that will support ultrasound which are used by Elliptic for gesture recognition. The companies said that AAC’s technology is …

Tags:audio| Gesture Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Appotronics Creates Brighter Single Chip DLP Projector

by Bob Raikes

Appotronics has been one of the key companies in the development of the laser phosphor development that is taking over the higher end of the mainstream projector market. The first product we looked at …

Tags:Infocomm 2018| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 23