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Visionect Aims at Education with Stampede

by Bob Raikes

Visionect has launched in the US a new E Ink-based display for room booking that runs on battery and integrates with 25Live from CollegeNET, the calendaring and publishing program that the company says is …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Meeting Rooms| Mobile Display Monitor| Visionect| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Sigmaintell Updates on TV Panels

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell Research of China said that August shipments of LCD TV reached 23.01 million in August, up 8.1% over July and 4.8% over a year ago. Area was 118 million m², up 8.1% from …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Pricing| TV Production| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Lilliput Adds Three New UltraHD Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Lilliput Electronics, which is a specialist in field monitors, has a number of new products. The A7s is a low cost 7″ IPS monitor with 1920 x 1200 resolution and 500 cd/m² and 1,000:1 …

Tags:Field Monitors| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Sydney Airport Uses Baidu for Mapping

by Bob Raikes

Sydney Airport has introduced an internal mapping scheme base on software from Baidu Maps for its International Terminal 1 and is reported to be the first location outside China to use the technology. It …

Tags:Aviation| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 39

NEC Display Updates WCG Monitor

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display Solutions of the US has announced that it is now shipping the 24.1″ MultiSync PA243W monitor which uses an AH-IPS panel with 99.6% coverage of the AdobeRGB gamut,96.9% of Adobe P3 and …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 24 - Issue 39

BenQ Releases Lamp-based S Series

by Bob Raikes

BenQ has four new projectors based on the same DLP chassis, but with a variety of resolutions. All support Brilliant Color technology and can show active 3D and are designed for installation. The lamp …

Tags:BenQ| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Molotov in France Adds 1080P and UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

French site, LesNumeriques.com, reports that Molotov.TV is offering streaming content in 720p and 1080p as well as UltraHD with the lowest resolution 720p content being free of charge. The 1080p and UltraHD streams are …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 39

LEDs in a Pincer Movement

by Bob Raikes

There was quite a lot of interesting news this week, even if there was nothing ‘earth shattering’. We have Ken’s report on the SID Automotive show in MDM and at the end of the …

Tags:DLP| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LED| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Valve Offers New Lenses

by Bob Raikes

Valve has been involved with VR by working with HTC on its Vive headset and has also been developing the SteamVR platform. The company has now developed lenses that work with standard displays for …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Backlight LEDs Likely to Increase in Number

by Bob Raikes

Although much of the discussion of smaller LEDs is related to direct display use, the technology is also being looked at as a way to improve LCD backlights. The use of large numbers of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Siemens Sells Final Osram Stake

by Bob Raikes

Siemens has sold almost all of its stake in Osram, more than 17%, for €1.2 billion according to Reuters. The company was originally listed in 2013 and Siemens said that it would keep a …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Osram| Vol 24 - Issue 38

VueReal Reveals a Little More

by Bob Raikes

We reported on VueReal of Canada when it announced that it was working on MicroLED and had developed a 6,000 ppi microLED display (VueReal Announces Super High Pixel Density Micro LED Display ). Now …

Tags:Canada| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 39