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BenQ Clear in B2B Push

by Bob Raikes

We first came into contact with BenQ when it clearly wanted to be a consumer electronics company. The firm spent a lot of money on marketing and bought the Siemens mobile phone business which …

Tags:Double (Dual) Sided Displays| Installation Projectors| Interactive Displays| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| Large Venue Projectors| Laser Projectors| LFD - Large Format Display| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Crestron 4K scaler

Crestron Jumps on UltraHD Bandwagon

by Bob Raikes

Our visit to Crestron was a bit of a frustration. We went a couple of times to make an appointment to hear about the latest technology, but we were basically abandoned on the booth. …

Tags:Crestron| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Planar Talks 100% UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Planar was clearly positioning itself at the show as the specialist in UltraHD and told us that all the displays that it was showing were UltraHD resolution (although this didn’t apply to the transparent …

Tags:ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| Transparent Displays| UltraHD| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Panasonic Emphasises Strength & Reliability

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic had a re-located booth this time – it was said to be bigger than last year’s. There was an impressive demo of projection mapping onto a Tesla and we made a short video …

Tags:HDBaseT| Installation Projectors| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Panasonic| Projectors| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Philips Brings AmbiLight to Public Displays & Adds a CMS

by Bob Raikes

Philips held a press tour on the first day of the show and we went around the booth. Chris Sluys of MMD, which markets the Philips brand LFDs and monitors in Europe, started by …

Tags:DOOH| Hospitality Displays| Hospitality TVs| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| LED| Medical| MMD (AOC Philips)| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Panasonic Projection Mapping Animates a Tesla

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic was showing an impressive demonstration of projection mapping, using six projectors for the mapping onto a “wrapped” Tesla and two for the background.

Tags:ISE 2015| Mapping & Cartography| Panasonic| Projection

FlatFrog Extends its Optical Touch Technology

by Bob Raikes

We spoke to Nathan Moyal at FlatFrog about the latest version of its optical technology, which can support displays up to 110″.

Tags:ISE 2015| LFD - Large Format Display| Touch Interfaces

Philips Brings Ambilight to Professional Displays & Adds a CMS

by Bob Raikes

Philips showed a new model in its QL line with support for the Philips Ambilight technology. It also announced a new CMS to offer integrated communications in medical and hospitality applications. We spoke to …

Tags:ISE 2015| LFD - Large Format Display| MMD (AOC Philips)

Wrede UltraHD conference

Go UltraHD Without HDR says SES

by Bob Raikes

Thomas Wrede, VP of Reception Systems at satellite operator, SES (pictured), said at a conference on UltraHD held in London during ISE, that he would like to see UltraHD resolution detached from HDR as …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SES| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Early Thoughts from ISE 2015

by Bob Raikes

The ISE show was something of a triumph. The organisers had over 50,000 pre-registered visitors from all over Europe and the show was busy and very well attended. Although some exhibitors were grumpy about …

Tags:BenQ| Editorial| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Optoma| Pro AV| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 07

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BDA Sets Out HDR Plans for Blu-ray (Corrected)

by Bob Raikes

We have corrected the story that we published last week based on some corrections received from the BDA (we removed a reference to a third HDR technology): Large Display Monitor has heard that the …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Philips| SMPTE| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 07

Iiyama Extends ProCap Touch Sizes

by Bob Raikes

We caught up with Iiyama at the show where the focus was completely on touch monitors. Although the firm has a mainstream desktop monitor business (with #11 ranking in the European market and sales …

Tags:Iiyama| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 08