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And Finally… – Vol 22 No 15

Promising to allow a user to ‘dive in’ to the action, Sony’s new wearable – Playstation Flow – completely re-imagines what ...

BC19 Nanosys Changes QD LCD Architecture

Jason Hartlove, CEO on Nanosys started by saying that all major TV companies are using his technology (except LG – but ...

C3Nano and Nissha Partner on Silver Nanowire Conductive Film

Silver nanowires (AgNW) are one alternative for ITO conductive films, offering low sheet resistance as well as low haze. This makes ...

European Bank Loans Serbia €24 Million for Switchover

Serbian public company Emsiona Tehnika i Veze has been loaned €24 million by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to ...

BC14 Unipixel Bullish on Metal Mesh Touch

Jalil Shaik is COO of UniPixel of the US and used to be with Atmel before that company’s touch business was ...

Cinemark Theatres First to Adopt Single-source Solution for In-theater Media Marketing with “One Network Alliance” Digital Lobby Experience

The One Network Alliance (ONA) – a strategic partnership between cinema technology leader Barco and in-theater marketing pioneer Vision Media – ...

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Astronomers Build 364,000″ Image of Milky Way

by Tom Allen

A team of astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have built the world’s largest-ever image of the Milky Way galaxy – so big, in fact, that it would take 5,200 70″ UltraHD TVs to display …

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Photography| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Comcast Will Produce UHD HDR STB

by Tom Allen

Comcast has said that it is preparing an HDR-capable UltraHD STB for launch next year. The Xi6 will be ‘more advanced’ than this year’s Xi4, which was Comcast’s first UltraHD STB.

Tags:Comcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 43

BT

BT TV Enjoys Best-Ever Quarter

by Tom Allen

106,000 new TV customers joined BT in Q3, taking its net total to 1.3 million. This quarter saw the launch of BT’s UltraHD package and a new UltraHD STB.

Tags:BT| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Smartphones Approach Record High, Despite Challenges

by Tom Allen

355.2 million smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q3 this year, according to IDC: 6.8% up from the 332.6 million shipped a year ago. Although the result represented the second-highest quarter of shipments on record, …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 43| Worldwide

Christie 6P laser lights CGV’s biggest screen in South Korea

by Isaac Oburu

CGV, a subsidiary of CJ Group and South Korea’s largest multiplex cinema chain, has installed Christie’s groundbreaking 6-Primary (6P) laser projection system in CGV Starium, which houses one of the largest screens in the …

Tags:Christie| Korea| Laser Projectors

We Need a Definition for a High Dynamic Range Display

by Chris Chinnock

I am at the SMPTE Fall Conference in Hollywood, where I am learning all about the ecosystem for High Dynamic Range (HDR), Wide Color Gamut (WCG) and High Frame Rate (HFR), among other topics. …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Christie Lights Up CGV’s Starium

by Tom Allen

CGV, a cinema multiplex chain in South Korea, has installed Christie’s CP42LH laser projector in the CGV Starium, which houses a 32m-wide screen! The upgrade replaces an existing lamp-based Christie projector. The CP42LH is …

Tags:Back Panel| Christie| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 43

BT

CMA Clears BT’s EE Acquisition

by Tom Allen

BT’s takeover of UK mobile operator EE has been cleared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. The watchdog judged that the move, worth £12.5 billion ($19.1 billion), would not cause ‘significant harm’ to …

Tags:BT| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Ericsson

Envivio Becomes Ericsson Subsidiary

by Tom Allen

Ericsson has completed its acquisition of video encoder specialist Envivio (Ericsson to Acquire Envivio). The transaction was completed through the merger of Ericsson’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Cindy Acquisition Corporation, with Envivio. Envivio will now act …

Tags:Ericsson| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 22 - Issue 43

My Etendue Story

by Kenneth Li

Etendue is a familiar word among optical engineers especially projection engine designers. It represents how “spread out” the light from a source is. The unit of measure is simply (sr * m²), the product …

Tags:Fibre optics| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Optics| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Corning Lotus™ NXT Glass Chosen for Samsung Display’s LTPS-OLED Line

by Isaac Oburu

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced Samsung Display’s selection of Corning Lotus™ NXT Glass for its line of low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS), organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels. Samsung Display, a global leader in display panel technology …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Samsung