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Optoma GT5500 Sells in the US

by Bob Raikes

Optoma in the US has launched the GT5500 (shown at Infocomm), a FullHD UST projector based on a single 0.65” DarkChip 3 DLP chip. Output is 3,500 Ansi lumens and the unit is claimed …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Optoma| UST Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Two New Roku Boxes Support HDR

by Bob Raikes

After a series of rumours, Roku has now announced a complete line of four new boxes, along with a special version for Walmart. The Roku Express is a FullHD box replaces the Roku 1 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 38

IBC 2016 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

ABox42 is a German STB maker that started by being more flexible than the global brands in making relatively small designs and production runs, which suits the many small cable vendors in Germany and …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Colour Critical Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Semiconductors| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Want a Bright Display? How About 10K candelas?

by Bob Raikes

One of the most intriguing displays in the Future Technology Zone at IBC was a booth that was being manned by Professor Alan Chalmers from the University of Warwick and Domenico Toffoli, Head of …

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

Technicolor Press Event Centres on HDR

by Bob Raikes

Technicolor held a press lunch event to talk about its technology. Unfortunately, the event was attended by more press than expected, so the room was rather more dispersed than might have been hoped, which …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Sony Looks to Services and Renews Monitors

by Bob Raikes

The Sony press event started with a full volume corporate video. Interestingly for a projector maker, Sony used flat panel displays for its presentation, with the main one a large Bravia set. Adam Fry, …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| UltraHD & 4K| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 38

SES Updates on UltraHD and Company Development

by Bob Raikes

Ferdinand Kaiser is the CEO of SES and his talk was called ‘Meeting the exponential demand for content’. There is a forecast of 3% CAGR in the use of bandwidth for video. 70% of …

Tags:Broadcast| HD+ (Germany)| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Satellite| SES| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Ericsson Highlights End to End Service

by Bob Raikes

Ericsson held a press event and briefing on the day before IBC. Stella Medlicott, CMO of Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services was the first speaker and she started by explaining that Ericsson has over …

Tags:Broadcast| Ericsson| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Dell Configures Notebooks for Thin Client Use

by Bob Raikes

Dell has announced two new mobile thin client devices supporting “all VDI protocols”, and can connect to Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware Horizon. The Dell Latitude E7270 and Latitude 3460 have 12.5″ (FullHD) …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Thin Clients| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Holst Centre Creates Ceramic-based OLED

by Bob Raikes

The Holst Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has worked with a US ultra-thin ceramics supplier, ENrG Inc., to create a ceramic-based large area flexible OLED. The substrate is a 20-40 µm thick Thin E-Strate …

Tags:Holst Centre| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Kateeva Bullish on Encapsulation – Koreans to Adopt ALD?

by Bob Raikes

Kateeva believes that its Yieldjet Flex system has enabled a rapid transition from glass encapsulation to TFE in new OLED production lines. The company claims that its precision deposition solution for the TFE organic …

Tags:Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)| Encapsulation| Kateeva| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 38

AMD Working with eMagin on 4K VR

by Bob Raikes

AMD is working with eMagin to develop a ‘4K’ VR display according to Roy Taylor of AMD, who is effusive about the quality in the video below. Check out, also, this video, where Taylor …

Tags:3D| AMD| eMagin| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 38