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World’s Largest Cinema Operator and Christie Sign Strategic Partnership

by Tom Allen

An Extensive agreement with Wanda Cinema Lineto accelerate Digital Cinema and Immersive Sound Rollout in China sees Christie 2/4K digital cinema projectors, Christie 6P laser projectors and Christie Vive Audio solutions installed among 1,500-plus …

Tags:China| Christie| Cinema Projection

Epson Rules July Projector Sales

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in July. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. The best-selling ‘pico and personal’ projector was …

Tags:Epson| Hitachi| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Optoma| PMA Research| Projectors| sony| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 35

PMA’s Tracking Service Shows Top-Selling Projectors in July

by Tom Allen

PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 16 years now, PMA …

Tags:Market Data| PMA Research| Projectors

AMD’s R9 Nano is Here – and Worth Waiting For

by Tom Allen

AMD has formally announced its Radeon R9 Nano graphics add-in board (AIB), as the latest and most anticipated member of its Fury X series of GPUs. It’s a marvel of technology improvements. according to …

Tags:Game Playing| GPUs| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 35

Prysm Brings LPD to Texas

by Tom Allen

Prysm has installed a 7m² Cascade 190 laser-phosphor video wall at the headquarters of IT integrator GDT, in Dallas, TX. The company’s new customer experience centre, described as ‘Epcot-like’, was built with the display …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Prysm| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 35

CEA Defines HDR-Compatible Displays

by Tom Allen

The CEA has released an industry definition for displays compatible with high dynamic range (HDR) standards. The new designation, formally known as HDR-Compatible Displays, is intended to assist both retailers and consumers in identifying …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 35

Microsoft Plans 3D Printing From Smartphones

by Tom Allen

Microsoft Research has developed an app called MobileFusion, which can 3D scan objects and load the data into a 3D printer, or use it for augmented reality gaming. The system works by stitching together …

Tags:3D printing| Cameras| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 35

Absen Hits 5,000-Unit Milestone

by Tom Allen

Absen is celebrating a milestone of 5,000 X5 LED panels sold worldwide, just six months after the display was launched at ISE 2015. The cable-less 5.2mm solution was particularly well-received in APAC and Europe, …

Tags:Absen| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 35

Toshiba Unleashes Windows 10

by Tom Allen

Toshiba has introduced two new notebooks in its premium Kirabook line, running Windows 10. While they are mostly identical, the Kira-10J (Windows 10 Pro) and Kira-10H (Windows 10 Home) differ in screen resolution (2560 …

Tags:IGZO| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 35

Valve and HTC Backtrack Over Vive Launch

by Tom Allen

It was announced earlier this year that the HTC Vive – the VR headset under development with Valve – would be launched in Q4. However, that appears to have been a miscommunication. Instead, there …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 35

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 36

by Tom Allen

An incorrect detail in our recent article, ‘Canon Claims World’s Lightest DCI Projector‘, has been pointed out. The XEED 4K500ST in fact has higher-than-DCI-4k (4096 x 2160) resolution: it is actually 4096 x 2400, …

Tags:China| Colour Management & Processing| Konka| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Notebooks| OLED TVs| Portrait Displays| Samsung| Skyworth| Software| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 36| WebOS