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ITEC 2016 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

At the back of the hall, one company, Dauntless, had set up its simulation system in an area that allowed two users to move around, wearing VR headsets. On the displays were the scenarios …

Tags:Epson| ITEC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 19

JVC Highlights Blu-escent Engine

by Bob Raikes

JVC was showing the latest version of its DLA-VS2500 UltraHD laser phosphor projector and had the light engine, which it calls the Blu-escent engine, in a display case on the booth. The unit uses …

Tags:ITEC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LCOS| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Canon Shows 4K LP LCOS Prototype

by Bob Raikes

The value of going to this kind of show for news was shown when we got to the Canon booth. The company had a prototype (serial number #001!) three panel 4K LCOS projector based …

Tags:Canon| ITEC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LCOS| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Esterline Adds “Channel” Product

by Bob Raikes

Esterline bought Barco’s simulation business last year as the Belgian company focused on its core display components. Esterline supplies complete display systems in a number of different ranges under the Treality brand, and using, …

Tags:Barco| ITEC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 19

ITEC Has Interesting Displays

by Bob Raikes

ITEC is the annual exhibition for the military/defence simulation business in Europe that is equivalent to the US I/ITSEC which we have reported on for several years. This is the first time that we …

Tags:ITEC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Military & Defence| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Lattice Develops “Best of Both Worlds” Interface Chip

by Bob Raikes

We have mostly reported on Lattice Semiconductor in its capacity as the buyer of HDMI developer, Silicon Image. However, now that the companies have combined their technologies, they have a new class of chip, …

Tags:Interfaces| Lattice Semiconductor (Silicon Image)| Mipi| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 19

LTE Supporters Form Alliance for LTE-B

by Bob Raikes

At the TV Connect conference in London recently, Hans Agardh of Qualcomm was attending to talk about the new LTE Broadcast Alliance. We caught up with him in a phone conference. LTE Broadcast (LTE-B) …

Tags:3G & 4G| Broadcast| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

BenQ’s W2000 Supports Rec. 709

by Bob Raikes

We’ve written quite a lot over the last few months on issues of colour in projection, provoked largely by two things – a change of our view on 3LCD’s CLO measurement (we now take …

Tags:BenQ| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Rec 709| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Challenges in the Public Display Market

by Bob Raikes

It’s been a very busy week at our company as we finalised our quarterly data for the Public Display and Desktop monitor markets and Tom was at a UK TV event, as well as …

Tags:Editorial| Europe| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 18

EMEA Public Display Sales See New Value High

by Bob Raikes

Sales volumes in the EMEA Public Display market slipped back in Q1 2016, by 4.7% on a quarterly basis, but 8% up over Q1 2015, according to Meko’s DisplayCast Public Display service as the …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Market Data| Vol 23 - Issue 18

Mueller Lands at ViewSonic

by Bob Raikes

We reported last week that display industry veteran, Thomas Mueller, was moving on from his position with BenQ in Germany (BenQ Display Head Moves to Product Management). We hear that he will be starting …

Tags:BenQ| Large Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| ViewSonic| Vol 23 - Issue 18

AV-Top Exploring HDR & UltraHD in Munich

by Bob Raikes

On a recent visit to A.V. Top, in Munich, Germany, I met with company principal, Florian Friedrich. He has been running the company for a number of years and has a lot of experience …

Tags:HDMI| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Resolution| Vol 23 - Issue 18