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Sharp Releases More Information

by Bob Raikes

We caught up with Sid Stanley, General Manager, Europe – Visual Solutions, of Sharp to get an update on the Sharp/Foxconn deal. Stanley, who is always very upbeat about the business, was positive about …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Nvidia Bringing Ray Tracing to VR

by Bob Raikes

In his keynote at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia said that his company has developed a version of its iRay ray-tracing software that can be used to create content …

Tags:GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| ray tracing| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Portrait Displays Acquires SpectraCal

by Bob Raikes

Display software specialist, Portrait Displays, Inc. has acquired the assets, including the staff, brand names and products of SpectraCal, the developer of the respected CalMan colour calibration and testing software. The deal was finalised …

Tags:Colour Quality| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Portrait Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Portrait Displays, Inc., Acquires SpectraCal, Inc.

by Bob Raikes

Portrait Displays, Inc., a global leader in visual enhancement software applications and middleware solutions for the computer display industry, today announced the acquisition of SpectraCal, Inc., creating a leading end-to-end provider of display control, …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Portrait Displays| Software

Christie Highlights Reduced Noise of L/P Projectors

by Bob Raikes

Christie was highlighting the D12WU-HS projector which is a single chip DLP unit that uses a laser phosphor light source and which we reported on from ISE (Christie ‘Solves Laser Colour Balance’) The company …

Tags:Christie| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| ProLight & Sound 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Eyevis Shares with MMT and Ships Transparent OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Local vendor, Eyevis, had a shared booth and told us that it had nothing new since ISE. However, it told us that it has already shipped some of its transparent OLED displays (Samsung Display …

Tags:Eyevis| Interactive Tables| Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2016| Transparent Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Yestech Products are Flexible

by Bob Raikes

Yestech is a fifteen year old Chinese company that specialises in rental LED products that it sells under the MagicStage brand. The range has two key advantages. The range uses a single design that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2016| Rental and Staging| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 14

ROE Shows Unique LED Display

by Bob Raikes

ROE is a Chinese LED maker that has been established in Europe some time and has an office with local staff in the Netherlands. It also has a US office in Los Angeles to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2016| Rental and Staging| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Dicolor Recommends Use of Rental Units in Installation

by Bob Raikes

Dicolor LED is a Chinese LED company and had some new products in its range with the X series which is optimised for rental and staging. In the past, the company focused on installation …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2016| Rental and Staging| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Happy Birthday to Apple

by Bob Raikes

I spotted last week that Apple was forty years old just a week or so ago – which took me back to my early computing days. I became a home computer enthusiast when I …

Tags:Apple| Editorial| Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13

ProLight & Sound 2016 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Alfalite is a Spanish company from Andalucia that is specialising in the design and manufacture of LED displays. At the moment, and for the last ten years, the displays have been made in China, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Projectors| ProLight & Sound 2016| Rental and Staging| Vol 23 - Issue 14

ProLight & Sound is Foggy

by Bob Raikes

This year we went along to the ProLight & Sound Event in Frankfurt, one of the key European events in the rental and staging audio visual market. Although many of the companies that we …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2016| Rental and Staging| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 14