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Absen Upgrades its Europe Showroom

Absen, a manufacturer of LED solutions, has expanded and upgraded its showroom set up in their European HQ in Rüsselsheim, Germany. ...

Screen Innovations Recruited by NASA for Space Station Project

Screen Innovations (SI), purveyors of innovation in the two-piece video projection industry, has been invited by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

Innolux Investing in More Capacity

Innolux’s chairman and CEO, Tuan Hsing-chien, told investors this week that the company will increase its capital expenditure significantly this year ...

Is Amazon Adding Display to Speaker?

Amazon has been updating its Echo line of voice-enabled speakers regularly since their introduction in November 2014. Now, according to Bloomberg, ...

Latest Android Wear Update Brings Wi-Fi Connectivity To LG G Watch R

With the latest Android Wear update, LG’s first round wearable device, G Watch R, will become Wi-Fi capable, allowing wearers to ...

Hisense to Buy Toshiba TVs – Asus for PCs?

Hisense of China has done a deal with Toshiba to buy the TV business, in the form of Toshiba Visual Solutions ...

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UK Soccer Adopts Virtual Perimeter Boards

by Bob Raikes

A number of Premier League and English Football League (EFL) clubs have invested in new perimeter technology this season, which gives them the ability to integrate ADI and Supponor’s award winning virtual replacement technology. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Outdoor Displays| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 37

A Sense of Exuberance at OLED World Summit

by Sweta Dash

There was a sense of exuberance at the OLED world Summit in San Francisco, which I attended last week. Suppliers of the OLED industry value-chain exhibited strong confidence about the future demand growth for …

Tags:OLED TVs| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 36

V-Nova Extending in Contribution and Distribution

by Bob Raikes

We met with Fabio Murra, SVP Product & Marketing at V-Nova, in the IABM Members Lounge at the show – an oasis that somehow we had missed over the years, despite 16 visits! V-Nova …

Tags:Codecs| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| V-Nova| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Mobile Chrome Update Enables Google Daydream VR Support

by Andrew Fenn

Following the news that Opera’s latest developer browser has added support for VR video playback, with integration of WebVR planned for a future release (Opera Adds 360° VR Video Playback Support), Google has released …

Tags:AR/VR| Chrome| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 36

SonoVTS Adds IP Input to Monitors

by Bob Raikes

SonoVTS, which long ago took over the Penta broadcast monitor business in Munich was showing a wide range of monitoring applications, especially some developed for OB vans, where the company told us it has …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Outside Broadcast| Vol 24 - Issue 35

LG Appoints VnX as New Distributor in Germany

by Andrew Fenn

European sales company VnX Distribution GmbH has been named as LG Electronics’ newest German distributor. The agreement allows VnX to distribute LG’s range of projectors, including the Adagio, Largo and Andante. A representative from …

Tags:Distribution| Germany| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Projection Mapping Used in TV studios

by Bob Raikes

TV studios are using a wide variety of large display technology including video walls and LEDs, however, D3 Technology, together with White Light Ltd have installed a projection mapping solution for a studio used …

Tags:Christie| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| TV Production| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Dutch TV News Channel NOS Gets 360° Makeover

by Andrew Fenn

The newsroom at Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, the Dutch broadcasting organisation, has been re-modelled with a brand new 360° display installation, a collaboration between Avex International and Barco. The installation features a large-scale projection wall, …

Tags:Barco| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Teardown Reveals That iPhone 8 Plus Costs $295.44 to Make

by Alan Spencer

According to preliminary estimates from IHS Markit, the new Apple iPhone 8 Plus has a bill of materials cost of $288.08, for the version that has 64 GBytes of NAND flash memory. When the …

Tags:Apple| IHS Markit| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Teardowns| Vol 24 - Issue 36

HP Promotes Workstations and Pro Monitors

by Bob Raikes

HP had an area at the back of one of the halls where it was showing its workstation and professional products, including monitors. It was promoting a special project called ‘Life on Mars’ that …

Tags:Curved Displays| HP Inc| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 35| Workstations

Dolby Delivery Concept

Dolby Has A Way of Creating Dynamic Metadata

by Bob Raikes

Dolby took us on a tour of its booth and most of the time was devoted to audio. Dolby has developed AC-4 ‘next generation’ object-based audio which is one of two standards that have …

Tags:3D Object-based Audio| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35