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PTE 2018 Is Lively

by Bob Raikes

Although we were told by one brand (that didn’t attend) that they feared that PTE might be quiet this year as they didn’t consider Stockholm a good destination, the show seemed fine to us …

Tags:Aviation| Large Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Samsung Exhibits at PTE For the First Time

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has not been at the PTE show before, although it has been active in the airport market segment for some time. The company has an established team that focuses on the applications and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 12

LG Shows Transparent OLED in Ground Control

by Bob Raikes

LG was at PTE for the second time. The company has been interested in the aviation market for some time, but started to really develop a full sales and support organisation to address the …

Tags:Aviation| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2018| Transparent Displays| Transport| Vol 25 - Issue 12

NEC Looking at Pressure Points

by Bob Raikes

NEC has worked for a long time on the aviation market and has developed a strong business in recent years and Richard Wilks is the specialist who looks after the business as Business Development …

Tags:Aviation| Digital Signage| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| Outdoor Displays| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2018| Transport| Vol 25 - Issue 12

NEC LP Projector Solves a Colour Challenge

by Bob Raikes

Sometimes, it’s interesting to see how the same challenges come up for different display technologies, and despite the differences between the core technologies, similar ways of achieving the same effect are used. Getting a …

Tags:Laser| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 14| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

New Tech Promises Live VR QoE

by Bob Raikes

NBC did a lot of work to cover the Olympics, including support for VR viewing. However, those that tried the technology seem to have been widely unimpressed, although the slow pace of curling seemed …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Tiled Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 12

LG Takes Press to Hollywood

by Bob Raikes

LG hosted an event in Hollywood for a group of journalists from the ‘AV Enthusiast’ press and highlighted the features and quality of its OLED TVs. As well as a demonstration of calibration using …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Sad News

by Bob Raikes

We’re sad to have to report the death of Michael James who for many years was a well known figure in the display industry, from his days at Radius to Portrait Displays, which he …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Vol 25 - Issue 12

OLEDs in Automotive – Or…..?

by Bob Raikes

Another week and another trade show. This week, I had (in every sense of the word) a flying visit to the Passenger Terminal Expo show in Stockholm. I was undecided whether to go, as …

Tags:Automotive| Editorial| JOLED| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Wearable Technology Show More Interesting than Expected!

by Bob Raikes

The Wearable Technology Show took place at London’s Excel Centre and also included AR & VR topics which it labelled as the AVR360 Show, although it was effectively just a few of the booths …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 11| Waveguide Display| Wearable Technology 2018| Wearables

Digital Projection L/P Projector Supports Dicom

by Bob Raikes

Digital Projection has released the E-Vision Laser 5000 projector which is a laser phosphor DLP unit with 5,000 Ansi, 5,500 ISO Lumens and using a 0.67″ DarkChip DMD and an RGBY colour wheel. The …

Tags:Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Varjo and Socionext Collaborate

by Bob Raikes

In digging out a story about a new 8K media server to be shown by Socionext for LDM, we found an interesting report that the company is working with Varjo of Finland which is …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 11