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Ford Announces App Developer Conference

by Bob Raikes

Dashboard/Cockpit Displays – Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) announced on July 31st that it will hold the auto industry’s first app developer conference on Sept. 8th as part of Super Mobility Week, Sept. 8-11, …

Tags:Automotive

DOOH Will Shake Off Slow Growth in 2014

by Bob Raikes

The latest Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast 2014-18, by PQ Media (PQM), shows that revenues in the sector are growing as expected and are forecast to rise 11.3% YoY in 2014. The result, which …

Tags:DOOH| Market Data

A Heads Up on Automotive Display Applications

by Bob Raikes

Automotive Displays – Navdy, a development stage startup firm, announced on August 5, 2014, that it is seeking to reinvigorate the market for aftermarket automotive heads up displays. Auto manufacturers have experimented with and …

ViewPoint-3D Speeds 3D Autostereoscopic Rendering

by Bob Raikes

2D-to-3D Conversion – On July 30th, ViewPoint-3D Ltd. (London, UK) introduced version 2.42 of their ViewPoint software. The program now supports real time autostereoscopic output to glasses-free 3D displays from RealCel, Alioscopy, Magnetic3D and …

PrimeView and Orad Show Products

by Bob Raikes

Megapixel Solutions – On August 4th, I had a chance to visit the PrimeView USA Inc. (New York, NY) showroom in New York. In addition to PrimeView, Orad Hi-Tec Systems Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel) …

Zaxtar Player Supports 4K 2160P60

by Bob Raikes

Broadcast & Distribution News arrived today in the Display Daily work zone of a development in professional video players (as we’re spread over around 8.5K kilometres, we can’t really talk about an office!). Zaxtar …

Sony to Quit eBook Market Completely

by Bob Raikes

eBooks – German blog site, Lesen.net was told by Sony that the company is giving up the eBook market and that the current PRS-T4 will be the last product in its Sony Reader line. …

Optoma Launches 1080p Classroom Projector

by Bob Raikes

Projection – High-End Professional – Schools, colleges and universities can now get a super-size high resolution picture with the new Optoma EH200ST projector, just launched. Optoma’s Head of Product Marketing, Justin Halls, said: “Space …

SiliconCore 4K LED Display Certified by Crestron

by Bob Raikes

Beyond HD – The Magnolia 4K LED display from SiliconCore has been certified by Crestron under their 4K certification program. The SiliconCore display has attracted a lot of attention with its high resolution (4K) …

Ostendo Show Impressive LED Imagers and Light Field Display

by Bob Raikes

Ostendo has been quietly working on a micro-LED display they call a Quantum Photonic Imager. This consists of red, green and blue LED with some near-collimating optical structures fabrication with extremely small pixel pitches …

Tags:LED| SID Display Week 2014