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LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 38

by Bob Raikes

Amazon announced its latest Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote which is said to be 30% faster than the previous version and costs $39.99 when it ships on October 20th. The device supports …

Tags:HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Pixvana Reveals 10K VR Video Player and Publishing Platform ‘Spin’

by Bob Raikes

Pixvana, which is developing cloud-based content creation and has a range of playback software for 360º video, has released its “Spin” platform for publishing and streaming. It also said that it plans to release …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 38

PMA Bullish on US LFD Sales

by Bob Raikes

PMA Research says that touch-enabled displays, 24/7 capability, bigger sizes and higher resolutions are the main areas driving growth in professional large display sales through distribution in the US. In the AV/IT Distribution channel, …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 39

HP Promotes Workstations & Monitors

by Bob Raikes

HP had a meeting room to promote its workstations and monitors for use in content creation for the broadcast industry. We heard about the development of the DreamColor products by HP. Disney was a …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Irystec Gets Funding

by Bob Raikes

We recently reported on Irystec, which has developed technology to better match display output to individuals’ vision, and now the company has said that it has successfully closed Series-A financing with investments from BDC …

Tags:Financial Data| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Visual Quality| Vol 23 - Issue 40

New Technology Area Round Up

by Bob Raikes

This reporter always enjoy the future technology area at IBC and I often save up visits to the end of a long day. If I get around the ‘moodily-lit STBs’, to quote Paul Gray …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Autostereo 3D| Flexible Displays| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Telepresence| Vol 23 - Issue 38

BCom Converts Between SDR and HDR

by Bob Raikes

B<>Com is a French technology institute, based in the high tech area of Rennes (in the same suburb as Technicolor’s R&D facility), with satellite sites in Lannion and Brest, also in Brittany. It has …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

And finally….

by Bob Raikes

Well, it wasn’t April Fools day, but we doubt, anyway whether anybody would have actually been fooled into attacking their iPhone as shown in this video. (Funnily enough, because of a defect in my …

Tags:Back Panel| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

NEC NC1000C for Smaller Cinemas Uses Lamps

by Bob Raikes

NEC has launched the NC1000C is an ‘all-in-one’ cinema projector which has 2048 x 1080 (DCI 2K) resolution, from three 0.69″ DLP chips and a dual 400W NSH lamp lighting system. The projector is …

Tags:Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 23 - Issue 38

BlackBerry To Drop Smartphone Design and Build

by Bob Raikes

Blackberry has said that it no longer plans to make its own handsets, as we suggested after comments in early August. (Blackberry Moves Towards Pure Software) Unique products will continue to be offered, but …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Xiaomi Top of the Range Phone is Only FullHD

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has launched new smartphones at the top of its range. The Mi 5s has a 5.15″ FullHD pixel IPS display driven by a Snapdragon 821 CPU and with 3GB (+64GB flash) or 4GB …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 38| Xiaomi