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ClearLED Enjoying Retail

by Bob Raikes

GWS said that it is getting a good response to its ClearLED displays which are being used by Zara and McDonald’s. The LEDs are bright enough for use all day in shop windows, but …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Complex TV Production to be Democratised?

by Bob Raikes

A company called Cinamaker has said that it would show a multi-camera video streaming technology that is claimed to allow the easy creation and broadcasting of multi-camera TV shows at SXSW. A tablet can …

Tags:Broadcast| Content Creation| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

New VR Motion Scheme Proposed

by Bob Raikes

At the GDC, a company called Survios said that it has developed ‘Sprint Vector’, a new game using a special way of moving in VR applications that avoids breaking the ‘suspension of disbelief’ from …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

The Pixel 2.0 is a Tiny OLED Display System

by Bob Raikes

The Pixel 2.0 is a new tiny OLED screen (1.5″ with 128 x 128 resolution) that is built around an Arduino and can be programmed to produce graphics. The display is available on Kickstarter …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 08

OLEDs in Automotive by 2018?

by Bob Raikes

The PIDA in Taiwan, a trade association, has said that it expects the use of OLEDs in automotive displays to take off from 2018 with demand for automotive displays expected to develop from 94.64 …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Celeno and Realtek offer 4K Wireless STB reference design

by Bob Raikes

Realtek has joined with Celeno Communications to develop a joint reference design for a ‘4K’ STB. The design uses Celeno’s CL2440 4×4 802.11ac wave 2 Wi-Fi chip and Realtek’s RTD1295 SoC. The companies say …

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

DVB UHD Phase 2 Now an ETSI Standard

by Bob Raikes

The DVB, which coordinates the technical side of broadcasting in Europe and, increasingly globally, has announced that ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has published the DVB Video & Audio Coding Specification as an ETSI …

Tags:Broadcast| DVB| Large Display Monitor| Standards| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 08

AOC Agon 240 Hz Gaming Monitor now Available

by Bob Raikes

AOC has now made the Agon AG251FZ gaming monitor available (AOC Aims at Gamers). Pricing has been set in the UK at £449 ($459 + tax) for the 240Hz 24.5″ TN-based unit, which is …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 24 - Issue 08

UHD Alliance Applies HDR Premium Logo to Mobile

by Bob Raikes

The UltraHD Alliance had hoped to release its mobile specification for the Mobile HDR Premium logo at the CES show (UHD Alliance Focusing on Mobile HDR) but couldn’t get all the sign-offs completed, so …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Notebooks| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 08

SiliconCore Redefines LED Technology with LISA Platform

by Bob Raikes

SiliconCore has announced the launch of a new technology platform, LISA (LED In Silicon Array), once again rewriting the rules of LED with a radical departure of how LED displays are manufactured. The launch …

Tags:LED| SiliconCore

Tri Evolution Promotes AS3D for Retail

by Bob Raikes

We heard that Michael Russo, who for ten years ran Tridelity, a specialist in 3D in Germany, is now running a new venture, Tri Evolution and will be at EuroShop 2017 in Düsseldorf to …

Tags:3D| Autostereo 3D| Large Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 24 - Issue 08