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NEC Organises Around Applications

by Bob Raikes

NEC organised its booth at the show around applications, as it has done in Europe for a while. We rather spoilt the fun of NEC staff as we had seen most of the new …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Christie Emphasises Fill Factor for LED

by Bob Raikes

Christie had a good demonstration of what it could do with different LED pitches on the front of its booth. Christie has been selling its LEDs under the “Velvet” brand since last year. 4mm, …

Tags:Christie| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 26

IntoPix Tico Enables AV over IP

by Bob Raikes

IntoPix is the developer of the Tico ‘light’ codec. Previously, the company told us that it had been looking at working with VESA on the next generation of the DisplayStream codec. (However, it has …

Tags:Codecs| Infocomm 2015| JPEG2000| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Xilinx Has Advantages for UltraHD and 8K

by Bob Raikes

We stopped by the Xilinx booth. The company makes FPGAs (programmable chips) and has been on our radar for a couple of years as it has been developing its business in the broadcast space. …

Tags:FPGAs| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| SDI| Semiconductors| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Peerless AV Explains Optical Bonding Advantages

by Bob Raikes

We met up with Brian McClimans of Peerless AV and he explained what Peerless is doing with optical bonding which helps to boost performance in bright sunlight – useful in Florida!

Tags:Infocomm 2015| LFD - Large Format Display| Optical Bonding| Peerless AV| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Toshiba Rounds Out Range of Public Displays

by Bob Raikes

As it is in Europe, Toshiba is investing to move away from the TV and consumer business to try to establish itself in the B2B segment with professional displays. At Infocomm, the company was …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| toshiba| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Peerless AV Impresses with Bonded Displays

by Bob Raikes

Peerless works with NEC and had this monitor in its totemPeerless AV was making the most of its relationship with the Daytona Raceway which is very local to Orlando. The company supplies displays to …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Optical Bonding| Peerless AV| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Samsung Pushes LED Again

by Bob Raikes

We met up with Samsung and got a tour of the booth. The big news is, of course, the further development of direct LED, with 1.5mm indoor product coming from Samsung’s own LED display …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Transparent Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Coretronic Sells Laser TV in China

by Bob Raikes

In a meeting room, DLP projector specialist Coretronic was showing a “laser TV”. This was a complete system consisting of a 3000-lumen UST projector that sits on the floor and illuminates a 100″ screen …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Laser Projectors| Laser TVs| Projection Screens| Short Throw| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Panasonic Starts with Smart Signage

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic used its direct led to advertise its projectorsPanasonic was highlighting, as it started to say at ISE, that its ‘open’ (that is, open to third party software vendors) platform that is based on …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Panasonic| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 26

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Leyard Pushing Small Pitch LED

by Bob Raikes

Leyard is one of the top makers of small pitch LEDs in China and impressed us at ISE. At Infocomm, it was showing solutions in 1.2mm, 1.6mm, 1.9mm and 2.5mm. It had put together …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LED| Leyard| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sony Highlights Projection and Laser Sources

by Bob Raikes

At Sony, we looked at the VPL-FHZ60 and VPL-FHZ60 projectors which are laser-based projectors using the 3LCD imaging and laser-phosphor to create a full range of colour. Sony talked at SID about what it …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Laser Projectors| LCOS| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 26