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Understanding 4K Resolution in Projection Systems

Insight Media has released its latest white paper titled Understanding 4K Resolution in Projection Systems. It discusses the changes that are ...

SKY Perfect JSAT Chooses HLG for HDR

Japanese satellite operator SKY Perfect JSAT is set to launch the world’s first publicly-available UltraHD HDR broadcast on the 4th October. ...

Immersive Experiences, Glasses-free

The recent focus for “Immersive Experiences” has been on Virtual Reality (VR) Head Mounted Displays (HMDs). Let’s not forget there are ...

Omega Takes Samsung

Omega is now distributing all of Samsung’s brown goods, such as TVs, in Austria.

Registration Now Available for the 2016 COMPUTEX d&i Awards

The 36th edition of global professional ICT trade show COMPUTEX TAIPEI will take place from May 31st to June 4th, 2016 ...

LG Invests in Chinese Polariser Production

LG Chemical is to expand polariser production in China. The company will invest $100 million to expand production in Nanjing, raising ...

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ECR Less Interesting than Prior Years

by Bob Raikes

This impressive projection mapped display welcomed delegate at ECR 2017. I’m not sure that the skull gave the kind of positive message, but delegates are mainly radiologists, so may see it differently! Image:MekoThe ECR …

Tags:Dicom Medical Calibration| ECR 2017| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Vol 24 - Issue 09

New Materials Developed with Potential for Multi-Color OLEDs

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Professor Youhei Takeda of the Department of Applied Chemistry within the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) have created multi-color MechanoChromic Luminescent (MCL) materials that …

Tags:Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Oculus Slashes Prices for the Rift VR Headset

by Norbert Hildebrand

Oculus / Facebook announced that they are lowering the price of their headset Oculus Rift to $499 and the controllers Oculus Touch to $99. This is a $200 price cut over the prices of …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Pricing| Vol 24 - Issue 09

LG to Launch Steam-based VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

At the Game Developers’ Conference (GDC), SteamVR said that LG is working on a new headset that will use the SteamVR platform. A prototype headset shown at the event used a 1440 x 1280 …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09

MWC Lively, but Not Much in Displays

by Bob Raikes

This week’s MWC was a bit of a disappointment from a display and handset point of view. It’s usually the place that Samsung launches its latest flagship smartphone, but the Note7 debacle meant extra …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Power Is Nothing Without Batteries

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this editorial on the plane on the way back from the MWC event in Barcelona. My tablet is having to be used with its ‘hunt and peck’ keyboard. Although I’m usually very …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08

ClearLED Enjoying Retail

by Bob Raikes

GWS said that it is getting a good response to its ClearLED displays which are being used by Zara and McDonald’s. The LEDs are bright enough for use all day in shop windows, but …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Complex TV Production to be Democratised?

by Bob Raikes

A company called Cinamaker has said that it would show a multi-camera video streaming technology that is claimed to allow the easy creation and broadcasting of multi-camera TV shows at SXSW. A tablet can …

Tags:Broadcast| Content Creation| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

New VR Motion Scheme Proposed

by Bob Raikes

At the GDC, a company called Survios said that it has developed ‘Sprint Vector’, a new game using a special way of moving in VR applications that avoids breaking the ‘suspension of disbelief’ from …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

The Pixel 2.0 is a Tiny OLED Display System

by Bob Raikes

The Pixel 2.0 is a new tiny OLED screen (1.5″ with 128 x 128 resolution) that is built around an Arduino and can be programmed to produce graphics. The display is available on Kickstarter …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Twitter Signs Agreement to Live Stream Esports Tournaments

by Alan Spencer

Twitter has signed an agreement with two esports companies, ESL and DreamHack, to live stream events and original content, with all events available globally. During 2017, more than 15 events will be live streamed …

Tags:Back Panel| eSports| Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Deutsche Telekom Sees Growth in IPTV

by Alan Spencer

Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain TV, its domestic IPTV service, saw an increase in new customers to 196,000 last year, and saw a total customer base increase of 7.3% to 2.88 million, compared to 2015. The …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 09