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Barco Introduces X2O for Corporate Comms

by Bob Raikes

Barco in the US said that it would show a new X2O mobile app to extend visual communications beyond the desktop. The platform is designed to broadcast real time information across ‘all displays and …

Tags:Barco| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Apple Refreshes iPad, Cuts Price

by Bob Raikes

Apple has launched a new version of the 9.7″ iPad, the most popular in the range and with pricing starting at $329 (32GB Wi-fi only) and $459 (32GB Wi-fi + cell model). The new …

Tags:Apple| iPad| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Matrox Makes Encoder into an Appliance

by Bob Raikes

Matrox has announced the Maevex 6150 quad 4K encoder appliance which puts a Maevex 6100 PCI card into a box with a supporting system and allowing capture and encoding. The appliance is programmed with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Matrox| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Simplay Can Test HDMI Alt Mode

by Bob Raikes

Simplay Labs, LLC, a Lattice Semiconductor company said that its Shanghai, China lab is now ready to test HDMI Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) for USB Type-C Specification. Similar services will be available at Simplay …

Tags:HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Barco Has Dental Screens For DACH

by Bob Raikes

Barco is introducing special displays for the dental market and will be initially be distributed in the DACH countries. There are recent standards (DIN 6868-157)for six different classifications of displays for medical displays, which …

Tags:Barco| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Vol 24 - Issue 11

New Amazon Device Between Stick and STB

by Bob Raikes

AFTVNews has said that Amazon is to introduce a new UltraHD HDR streaming STB that would sit between the current Fire Stick product at the low end and the current Fire TV box. It …

Tags:Amazon| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 12

OLED Looks to Automotive as a Stepping Stone for Lighting

by Bob Raikes

Dr Mark Philippens is from Osram OLED and he talked about non-display applications for OLED. He started by looking at the differences between OLED displays and lighting. His talk was mainly on OLED for …

Tags:Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Osram| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Prof Kathirgamanathan Sees QDs Important for Rec. 2020

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker was Prof Poopathy Kathirgamanathan (PK) who is a display technologist from Brunel University in London. He was originally very involved in OLED and is now involved in Quantum Dots (QD) and …

Tags:Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Perovskite| Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Embedded World Buzzes – ED Conference is Bigger

by Bob Raikes

Prof Karlheinz Blankenbach kicked off the 31st Electronic Display conferece in Nuremberg. The event takes place alongside the Embedded World exhibition and we usually get around that show. We were unable to attend more …

Tags:Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Mitsubishi Extends LCD Life and Operating Conditions

by Bob Raikes

Mitsubishi had plenty of news at the event, as it has most years when it shows its range of industrial displays at this event. First we had a look at a range of transflective …

Tags:Automotive| Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mitsubishi| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Embedded World 2017 – Round Up

by Bob Raikes

4D Systems has developed ‘microLCDs’ that are complete display systems including controllers that use 0.7″ 80 x 160 displays. The displays are driven using SBI cost $4.95, one off and the company, which is …

Tags:Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 11

HDBaseT Takes Aim at Automotive with Multistream

by Bob Raikes

HDBaseT and Valens were showing the HDBaseT interface being used for automotive applications. In this application simple UTP (or coax) cables can be used and simpler/cheaper cables can be installed in autos with a …

Tags:Automotive| Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| HDBaseT| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11