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Acer Adds Totem & Stretched Display

by Bob Raikes

Acer has added a 55″ dual sided totem display and a 37″ 32:9 stretch display to its LFD product range. The DD550Abi has a 55″ FullHD 700 cd/m² on each side with contrast of …

Tags:Acer| Large Display Monitor| Stretched Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Vudu Converts DVDs & Blu-rays to Digital

by Bob Raikes

Vudu, Walmart’s streaming service, is offering a DVD and Blu-ray-based service to convert content to allow viewing into ‘digital’ copies. The service is available for around 8,000 movies from Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, Twentieth Century …

Tags:Blu-ray| DVD| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Dell Starts to Take Orders for 8K Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Dell has started to take pre-orders for the UP3218K 8K monitor that it showed at the recent CES show. (Dell 8K Monitor Available Soon) The price has been confirmed at $5,000 and it will …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Poster Comes to Life with Kinect

by Bob Raikes

We were intrigued to see a video taken at the recent SXSW event that showed an ‘Uncle Sam’ recruitment poster that uses Kinect technology to track the viewer and point ‘I want you’ in …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Lightvert Now On the BBC

by Bob Raikes

We reported on UK-based Lightvert (Lightvert Has Large Displays… or not…) which has developed a system for creating huge LED-based displays on tall buildings that exploit the persistence of vision. Now, the BBC has …

Tags:Back Panel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 12

VR and AR are Everywhere You Look

by Bob Raikes

This week we seem to have lots of stories about VR and with more to come, as I was at Laval Virtual this week. We’ll have our report next week, mainly in MDM. In …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Iiyama PCap Display Uses AMVA+

by Bob Raikes

Iiyama has a new open frame 27″ PCap touch display, the TF2738MSC-B1 designed for in-store retail, digital signage and interactive presentations – either on-wall or on-table. The display joins the 34 & 38 series …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Iiyama| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Scientists Improve Colour Vision

by Bob Raikes

Metamerism is an interesting problem of colour vision and the term is used to describe situations where a colour looks the same as another, but measures as something different. Sometimes, colours measure the same, …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

AUO Ships Square OLED

by Bob Raikes

OLED Info reports that AUO has started to ship a new 1.3″ square OLED with 240 x 240 for wearable applications. The size is 23.28mm square (261ppi) and the displays have on-cell touch.

Tags:AUO| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Samsung Pushed Resolution at MWC

by Bob Raikes

We were banned, along with the rest of the media, from the Samsung Display booth at MWC, as the company has for several years, following the leaking of some information several years ago which …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 12

JCD UK Brings Roadside Displays to 50

by Bob Raikes

JCDecaux has added another outdoor display, the west Hill Tower, that is in the affluent South West corridor of London by the South Circular and A3, so will have good exposure and brings the …

Tags:JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Amino Has Android UltraHD STB

by Bob Raikes

At the show, Amino Communications showed its new UltraHD Android-based STB that is intended for operators (it’s not a retail product). Features include support for the 802.11ac Wi-fi protocol. Amino CTO Mark Evensen said: …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| TV Connect 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 13