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DTG Holds Third TV Innovation Awards

by Tom Allen

The UK’s Digital Television Group has announced the third annual DTG TV Innovation Awards: an open competition to expose innovative small- and medium-sized businesses to global broadcast and media opportunities at IBC. Applications are …

Eyevis Takes to the Skies

by Tom Allen

Eyevis has signed a £400,000 ($630,000) deal with BAE Systems, to provide its high-res display screens and operating systems for use in Typhoon flight simulators – both in the UK and abroad. Eyevis is …

SES Launches Ultra HD Demo Channel in North America

by Tom Allen

SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), the world’s leading satellite operator, today announced it has launched its first Ultra HD (UHD) demonstration channel serving the North American television market. The …

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Sharp Begins In-Cell Mass Production

by Tom Allen

Sharp has begun to mass-produce in-cell touch displays for smartphones. They are being produced at Sharp’s Mie Plant No. 3, using LTPS technology. The company is considering expanding production to its Kameyama Plant No. …

SES Launches Demo Channel

by Tom Allen

SES has launched an UltraHD demonstration channel in North America. The channel is delivered via the SES-3 satellite, and enables cable operators to prepare and test their networks for UltraHD trials.

France Gets Taste of UltraHD HDR

by Tom Allen

Several companies worked together to televise the French leg of the Volvo Ocean Race, in Lorient, in UltraHD HDR this month. The event was the first time an offline UltraHD HDR broadcast, at 50fps, …

Acentic Rollout Includes Europe’s Second-Largest Video Wall

by Tom Allen

Acentic has begun installing double-sided digital displays at 12 Welcome Break service stations across the UK. The video walls will be formed of LG screens, with Black Box’s i-Compel controller software. The largest wall …

LG Brings Mirroring to Portable Projectors

by Tom Allen

Although we saw LG’s new lineup of portable (Minibeam) LED projectors at CES 2015, we were unable to find more information about them except their model numbers: PF1500, PV150G, PW800 and PH300. LG has …

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MegaChips Bridges DisplayPort and HDMI

by Tom Allen

Megachips is now shipping a DisplayPort 1.2/HDMI 2.0a bridge chip family. The MCDP28 line implements a high-speed level shifter and active-protocol converter (LSPCON) in a single chip. The chips support HDMI level shifting up …

Apple Patents Method to Raise AMOLED Display Brightness

by Tom Allen

Apple has been granted several new patents, but those that we are interested in relate to AMOLED displays – specifically, raising the performance of these devices. A top-emission AMOLED uses a top electrode with …

Himax Takes Photonics Award

by Tom Allen

Himax’s 0.22″ ‘Front-Lit LCoS module’ microdisplay has won the 2015 Taiwan Outstanding Photonics Product Award, from the Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association.

Outfront Expands Transport Presence

by Tom Allen

Outfront Media is working with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to roll out new digital screens and campaigns to eight Metrorail stations in New York City. Each of the 72″ LG-MRI displays …