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Spin Digital Plans 8KP120 at NAB

by Bob Raikes

Spin Digital of Berlin, Germany, said that it would show a new HEVC/H.265 video player and SDK at NAB that supports decoding up to 8KP120 formats with 4:2:2, 4:4:4 and RGB colour up to …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 24 - Issue 15

360º Drone Has Five Mile Range

by Bob Raikes

We don’t normally cover drones – we could probably fill the newsletter every week with stories – but 360 Designs has created a new system using a Matrice 600 Pro drone combined with a …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Vienna Gets LED Totem

by Bob Raikes

EpaMedia of Austria has installed a three-sided LED tower of 1.5 x 4.5 m and with a total area of 21 m² in an installation that is 8 metres high and weighs six tonnes. …

Tags:Austria| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Could Epistar Start MicroLED Production in 2017?

by Bob Raikes

Epistar is planning to start making microLED chips at about 100 micron size in the second half of 2017 and to be used in large displays according to a report from Digitimes. The bloq …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Avegant Wins More Funding

by Bob Raikes

Avegant, which has so far focused on headsets for viewing video, has raised $13.7m in additional funding to further develop its ‘light field’ displays. The FT reports that Avegant has now raised around $50 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Display Week in LA in 2017

by Bob Raikes

This year’s Display Week will be in Los Angeles, in line with the policy of holding the event on the West Coast of the US to make travel and logistics easier for companies in …

New LED at T5 is Heathrow’s Largest

by Bob Raikes

8 Outdoor of the UK has launched a new LED display at Terminal 5 of London’s Heathrow airport which the company claims is both the largest exterior digital display at the airport and engages …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Outdoor Displays| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Trafford Centre Adds Four New LED Displays

by Bob Raikes

Perfect Fit Media of Manchester in the UK has set up four large displays leading into the TraffordCity and TraffordCentre in the city. Four large-scale sequential without motion media sites (two landscape 14m wide …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 15

12K Video over Three Video walls

by Bob Raikes

A project by VisionQuest Design & Production of Atlanta, USA uses three UltraHD videos on adjacent large (3 x 3) video walls which are interactive, using touch. Each display uses special speakers to provide …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Users Can Change Menu Language

by Bob Raikes

A hat-tip to Dave Haynes of the sixteen-nine blog for pointing out a demonstration by SoundGraph of Korea which showed at DSE a QSR menu board that was configured to show a second language …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Holst Puts Touch and OLEDs into Plastic Mould

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, the Holst Centre in the Netherlands released information about a demonstration car centre console that it has made based on ‘In-mold electronics’ or IME and with space for storage …

Tags:Automotive| Holst Centre| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 15

iWedia Says Teatro Doesn’t Use Android TV

by Bob Raikes

iWedia and HiSilicon issued a statement clarifying that their recent collaboration on Android solutions, running the Teatro-3.5 STB software solution from iWedia on the Hi3798MV200, the latest UHD STB chipset from HiSilicon, is based …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| Software| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 15