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tvOne Coriomaster Drives NEC 16K Video Wall

by Bob Raikes

tvOne said that its Coriomaster mini video wall processor is being used to drive a ’16K’ video wall in the University of Warwick. The processor was installed by GV Multimedia and drives four NEC …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 09

DisplayLink Extends Wireless to VR

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink was close to the HTC Vive booth and was getting a lot of attention for its reference design which uses the firm’s implementation of Wireless VR which uses the 60GHz radio band and …

Tags:DisplayLink| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

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Sharp Boosts OLED Investment…. A Bit…

by Bob Raikes

Sharp is reported by the WSJ to have said that it would boost its investment plans on OLED to around ¥100 billion ($880 million), a boost of almost 75% compared to the original announcement …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| sharp| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Kyocera 6.2” LCD Display has 16:6 Format

by Bob Raikes

Kyocera has a new 6.2″ TFT LCD (TCG062HVLQAVNN-GN20) features 640 x 240 resolution (16:6), with outline dimensions of 173mm x 70mm x 6.7mm. Viewing angles are 160º horizontally and vertically, allowing portrait or landscape …

Tags:Industrial Monitors| Kyocera| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Sonos Has Playbase for TV & Music

by Bob Raikes

Sonos has announced a Playbase that is a flat sound box that is designed to sit underneath a TV. The company has been developing the base since 2013 and is 58mm (2.28″) high, 72cm …

Tags:audio| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Interactive castle on Malta – the Citadella of Gozo

by Bob Raikes

Sarner International, which specialises in theme parks and museums, has helped enhance the visitor experience at the Citadella pf the knights of St John on the Maltese island of Gozo. There are seven zones …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Museums & Exhibitions| Pro AV| Projection Mapping| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Samsung Finds Some Products to Launch

by Bob Raikes

Samsung held its annual MWC Press Conference to a full house at the event. Normally, it uses the event to launch the next update for the Galaxy smartphones, but after the problems with the …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 5G| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Samsung| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Lenovo Has Lots to Show

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo had plenty to show us. We started by looking at the Tab 4 series which is an Android-based tablet available in two sizes, 8″ and 10″ (Tab 4+) both with FullHD displays. The …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Dolby Demonstrates Dolby Vision Smartphone Performance

by Bob Raikes

Dolby was happy to be talking about the adoption by LG of the Dolby Vision technology and in its closed booth, it was demonstrating a standard LG phone compared to a Dolby Vision playback …

Tags:Dolby| Dolby Vision| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Hisense to Establish American Internet-TV Operation Centre

by Bob Raikes

Hisense said that it has nearly 25 million users of its Internet TV services (21.11 million in China) and plans to build an operation centre in the US to help boost coverage from 2.6 …

Tags:Broadcast| China| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 09

MWC 2017 Round-up

by Bob Raikes

Picoprojector maker, Aiptek, has a new AM500VT projector that is a complete Android system that produces HD images of up to 120″ with output of 500 ANSI lumens. The projector is supplied with a …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| audio| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Display Stream (DSC)| Fingerprint Recognition| Gesture Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Pico Projectors| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08| WiGIG