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Political turmoil in the UK and Prosumers

by Bob Raikes

A British prime minister of the 1960s, Harold Wilson, is famous for saying once that “A week is a long time in politics”. Frankly, in my home country of the UK, a day seems …

Public Displays and Brexit

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this editorial at the Digital Signage Summit in Munich. It’s interesting that there is very little about hardware in the whole event – I’m one of only a couple of hardware people …

Checking the Flavour of the Kool-Aid

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, Barry Young of the OLED Association suggested that Chris Chinnock and I had ‘drunk the Kool Aid’ in accepting arguments from quantum dot suppliers at the recent SID event …

Tags:OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Infocomm Successful in Las Vegas

by Bob Raikes

The Infocomm show was considered a success with a level of 38,833 visitors going to Las Vegas. The show saw over half a million sq ft (just short of 50,000 m²) of exhibitor space …

Tags:Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Planar/Leyard Adds Carbon Fibre LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Planar/Leyard was showing the latest 1.2mm LED wall that was shown at NAB. (Planar/Leyard shows Whopping 8K LED Video Wall at NAB) We asked how much it would cost to buy and we heard …

Tags:Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Video Walls| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Infocomm Direct Display Round-up

by Bob Raikes

3M was showing a new 65″ PCap table display that will be available in August. The company was also highlighting the object recognition and metal mesh technology that it showed at ISE. The 65″ …

Quirk Logic Shows Largest Ever E Ink Display

by Bob Raikes

Quirk Logic was a new name to us – it’s a new company that has been established to develop a new class of product – an electronic equivalent of a flip chart based on …

Tags:E Ink| Infocomm 2016| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS34 Nippon Seike Explains AR HUD Latency Challenges

by Bob Raikes

The final talk of the second day was from Dan Cashen of Nippon Sieke, one of the largest makers of HUDs globally. The company makes most of the HUDs in autos in Europe and …

DS33 TI Highlights DLP for HUDs

by Bob Raikes

Sam Martin is from TI where he works on DLP for automotive HUDs. TI has made three generations of prototype HUDs to better understand the requirements and help its customers. The field of view …

DS32 Geo Explains Processing for HUDs

by Bob Raikes

Paul Russo is from Geo Semiconductor which makes processors for HUDs. He started by saying that once you have a remote control for your TV, you will want one for ever. The same applies …

DS31 Barco Happy with RP Cubes for Control Rooms

by Bob Raikes

Lutz Nehrhoff von Holderberg is from Barco where he looks after the control room business. He has been in Barco for twenty years. Barco has a new 24/7 control room projector using lasers (not …

DS29 Digital Projection Likes LED for WCG

by Bob Raikes

Phil Laney is from Digital Projection Inc (DPI). The company invented the DLP with TI in the 1990s, Laney said. His topic was wide colour and by this he meant ‘beyond Rec. 709’. There …