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SMPTE 2017 Looks Forward to 8K

by Bob Raikes

The Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers (or SMPTE), held its annual Technical Conference in Hollywood from the 23rd to the 26th of October. The event attracted 2,500 registered attendees and there were …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Cisco Looking To Sell NDS

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg has reported that Cisco is looking for buyers for the NDS business that it bought back in 2012, after selling the STB business to Technicolor at the end of 2015. (Technicolor Completes Cisco …

Tags:Cisco| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 24 - Issue 41

The Mimo Monitors Vue Capture Touch Display has HDMI Capture

by Bob Raikes

Mimo Monitors, specialists in small touchscreen displays, have announced that its newest product, The Mimo Vue Capture Capacitive Touch Display with HDMI Capture, will be included in the new Hangouts Meet hardware kit, designed …

Tags:Collaboration| Large Display Monitor| Meeting Rooms| Vol 24 - Issue 42

MDM Vol 24 #41 Round-up

by Bob Raikes

BLU, which claims to be the largest supplier of unlocked smartphones in the US, has done a deal with Sprint and launched the 5.2″ HD (1280 x 720) IPS smartphone. The IPS LCD display …

Tags:Asus| eMagin| Eyewear| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Eizo Adds to Surgical Monitor Range

by Bob Raikes

Eizo has added two new models to its range of LCD monitors designed for surgical applications in endoscopy and operating microscope feeds. The two models are the CuratOR EX3220 and EX2620 – 31.5″ and …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Vol 24 - Issue 41

LG Display Adds Some Detail in Earnings Call

by Bob Raikes

In its earnings call, LG Display said that it has additional capacity for OLED panels for TV from Q3 and that it will increase production in Q4. At the moment, 65% of OLED TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Instrument Systems to Show Production Testing Gear

by Bob Raikes

Instrument Systems plans to show a spectrally optimised LumiTop 2700 imaging colorimeter which is a combination of spectroradiometer and RGB camera at the Productronica show in Munich in a couple of weeks. The system …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Measurement| Mobile Display Monitor| Test Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Huawei Mate 10 Teardown Reveals BOM

by Bob Raikes

TechInsights has branched out from its policy of just publishing teardowns on Apple and Samsung Galaxy phones and has published a look at the Huawei Mate 10. (Huawei Mate 10 Uses LCD, Mate 10 …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Teardowns| Vol 24 - Issue 41

ThirdEye Has X1 Eyewear and Software

by Bob Raikes

ThirdEye Gen, Inc released the X1 Smart Glasses with Enterprise Solutions Platform and announced the creation of the ThirdEye App Store. The company said that its HD (1280 x 720) display is the equivalent …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Eyewear| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

KOE introduces 10.3-inch HD Rugged+ TFT Display

by Bob Raikes

KOE (the part of JDI that looks after industrial displays) has announced the TX26D206VM0BAA ‘Rugged+’10.3″ display module with 1920 x 720 (8:3 aspect ratio) and based on an IPS LCD panel with 1,000:1 contrast …

Tags:Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 41

AMD Ryzen APUs Aimed at Ultrabooks

by Bob Raikes

AMD has released new APUs in its Ryzen series that integrate Zen microprocessors and the latest Vega GPUs and expects them to be used in high end ultrabooks. The company claims that its 15W …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Optoma Launches Laser Version of 4K UHD65 Projector

by Bob Raikes

Optoma, which claims to be the most successful brand of projector in Europe, based on data from PMA Research, has formally released the UHZ65 which we reported on from Infocomm and IFA (IFA 2017 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Optoma| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 41