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RealD Develops Synthetic Shutter Solution for HFR

RealD has turned to signal processing techniques to create a novel way of processing frames of video. Called a synthetic shutter, ...

Laser Lands in Imax

The first Imax laser projectors will reach the UK at the end of the summer, along with a new 12-channel surround ...

New Optical Approaches to VR Headsets Improve the Acceptance by Users

An article by Science 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/zofpwud) describes a university study that looked at how to improve the optical performance of VR ...

Oculus Catches Up

Oculus VR says that it has shipped all of the Oculus Rift pre-orders that were placed. It has taken the company ...

EET Europarts Takes Sony

Sony has taken on EET Europarts as a new distributor in the Nordic region. EET will handle Sony’s consumer products in ...

HDR Mastering Round up

Colorfront announced at NAB that its Transkoder software product has been certified by Dolby Laboratories for Dolby Vision HDR content mastering, ...

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Further Reforms Cause Drop in Indian PC Market

by Yvette Raikes

Overall Q2 PC shipments to India were 1.75 million, down 18.9% QoQ and 18% YoY, according to IDC. Consumer shipments were 0.81 million, down 22.6% QoQ and 22.7% YoY. Commercial sales went down 15.3% …

Tags:IDC| India| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Chinese Smartphone Shipments Down in Q2

by Yvette Raikes

Smartphone shipments to China were 94.1 million in Q2’17, down 11.8% YoY although similar to Q1, according to Digitimes Research. Chinese shipments were 28.9% of the global number. In particular, the top three telecom …

Tags:China| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 31

TCL Cancels 50″ And 65″ P-Series 4K HDR TVs

by Bob Raikes

TCL in the US has decided to cancel the 50″ and 65″ versions of its P series TVs, although it will continue to offer the 55″, although the company has not given a clear …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Facebook / Oculus Files Patent for AR Headset

by Norbert Hildebrand

Oculus is best known for the Oculus Rift headset that catapulted Facebook to the forefront of virtual reality. In recent months, Facebook management has made several statements indicating interest in AR in addition to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Oculus VR| Vol 24 - Issue 31

HTC Lowers Price for Vive Headset

by Norbert Hildebrand

Sales for virtual reality headsets have not been overwhelming so far. One potential obstacle is the price that makes buying a VR headset more of an investment rather than an impulse buy. HTC is …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Microsoft Promises UltraHD & HDR Games

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft at Gamescom in Cologne has said that more than 100 games will be available in UltraHD or HDR on the planned XBox One X when it launches in November. Analyst Comment At the …

Tags:4k| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 31| xBox

Roman LED Sign Comes to Las Vegas

by Yvette Raikes

There is an 85′ (25.9m) sign in Las Vegas outside Caesar’s Palace in front of The Forum Shops. It has 10mm pitch and looks as though there are Roman columns on each side of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Outdoor Displays| Retail| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Coke Uses Moving LED Display

by Bob Raikes

We heard that a new moving LED display was being built in Times Sq, New York and we reported that it would be officially launched in August 2017 and now it looks at though …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 31

US Ford Dealer Wins a Halo

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic has supplied an LED ‘halo’ display to a US Ford dealer from Birch Run, Michigan that was installed by Installation & Service Technologies (IST), of Kansas City MO. The halo weighs just over …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Panasonic| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 31

New Digital Customer Experience Installed at Philadelphia Station

by Andrew Fenn

SEPTA and Intersection have teamed up to create a new and improved digital customer experience at Philadelphia’s Suburban Station. Ten new interactive digital kiosks have been placed in the station, which welcomes 25,000 commuters …

Tags:Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| Transport| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Raspberry Pi-based System Supports Auto Video Walls

by Bob Raikes

A hat tip to Sixteen:Nine.net for spotting a new software app, developed in Germany, that is claimed to automatically set up video walls even where the wall is created with different size displays in …

Tags:Digital Signage| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Software| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 31