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Texas Hospital Chooses Nanolumens Over Projector

by Tom Allen

A new $1.3 billion facility has been constructed at Parkland Hospital in Texas and was opened last year. The facility includes a large-format LED display using Nanolumens’ NanoSlim solution. The screen, installed in the …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Correction: NEC’s 90″ Display Is Not $4,000!

by Tom Allen

Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader who spotted an error in our coverage last week (yes, even the Display Monitor team makes mistakes – albeit rarely!). We had said that NEC’s E905 used a VA …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Sony’s Vue Service Now Live

by Tom Allen

Sony Computer Entertainment president, Andrew House, said recently (Playstation Vue Coming to East Coast) that Sony’s Playstation Vue TV service would be rolled out to the East Coast of the USA soon. The service …

Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| sony| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 12

QMC Breaks Stokes-Shift Barrier for Brighter Displays

by Tom Allen

The ‘Stokes-shift’ is the difference between a quantum dot’s (QD) peak excitation and peak emission wavelengths. Minimising the overlap between these bands enhances the clarity and brightness of a fluorescing QD, by avoiding re-absorption …

Tags:Brightness| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Smart Presentations Announces Certification to Install SMART Room System

by Tom Allen

SMART accredited reseller and installer, Smart Presentations Ltd, is a certified installer of SMART Room Systems incorporating Microsoft’s enterprise communications tool, Lync, which is today being officially re-branded as Skype for Business. The SMART …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Microsoft

Paul Butler Named Top Exec by PCR

by Tom Allen

Paul Butler, sales director at AOC/MMD UK and Ireland, has been recognised as one of the region’s top technology executives by PCR. Butler has worked in the IT channel for more than 20 years …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Ireland| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Nanosys Doubles QD Capacity on UltraHD Demand

by Tom Allen

Nanosys has doubled its quantum dot production capacity, to 25 tons per year. The new capacity enables Nanosys to provide optical components to more than 6 million 60″ UltraHD TVs a year and the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 12

IHS: Wearables and Vehicle Displays to Lead Touch Market

by Tom Allen

Worldwide small, medium and large touch panel demand has increased by double- or triple-digits in recent years. It is forecast to have risen 19.1% YoY in 2014 and will grow 15.1%, to 2.1 billion …

Tags:IHS Markit| In-cell| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| On-cell| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Worldwide

Tag Heuer Becomes First Swiss Smartwatch Maker

by Tom Allen

Tag Heuer, the Swiss watch manufacturer, has announced a partnership with Intel and Google to launch a smartwatch based on Android Wear. The watch will be launched this year. Jean-Claude Biver, president of Tag …

Tags:Android Wear| Apple| Google Glass| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Switzerland| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Pascal is Nvidia’s Newest, Fastest GPU Architecture

by Tom Allen

Nvidia’s GPU technology Conference took place in the USA recently, with a new flagship GPU (see Product News) announced as well as a brand new architecture. Maxwell is Nvidia’s 10th-generation GPU architecture, and will …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 12

HSA Finalises 1.0 Specification for Power-Efficient Computing

by Tom Allen

The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation has released the HSA 1.0 specification, bringing the technology industry one step closer to true heterogeneous computing on platforms spanning mobile devices, desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems and …

Tags:CPUs| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 12