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Canon Launches Two New Ultra-Short Throw Multimedia Projectors

Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, today announces the launch of two new LV portable projectors – theLV-WX300UST and the LV-WX300USTi. ...

Fujitsu to Cut Jobs in UK

Fujitsu is planning to streamline its UK operations in order to be able to reduce prices and be more competitive. This ...

VIZIO Brings All-New VIZIO SmartCast Collection to Canada

VIZIO, Inc., the #1 Smart TV company in the U.S.1, announced today the Canadian launch of VIZIO SmartCast, its next generation ...

Corning Seeks Lighting Designer

Corning and OLEDWorks have launched a contest, seeking ways to integrate OLEDWorks’ lighting panels into functional luminaires. Each of the five ...

V-Nova Shows Flexibility in Paris

V-Nova has demonstrated the practicality of its Perseus signal compression technology in the Airbus Group pavilion at the Paris Air Show ...

3D Globe in Stockholm

Projection mapping is being used to show live data tracking flights to and from Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden, on a ...

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Panasonic LEDs in Bristol Speedway’s ‘Colossus’

by Tom Allen

Panasonic has supplied the LEDs for Colossus: a set of four large LED screens (6mm pixel pitch) suspended above the Bristol Motor Speedway in the USA. Colossus, which has just been turned on, is …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Kyocera Lowers Cost of Waterproofing

by Tom Allen

Kyocera is a specialist in producing rugged smartphones, specifically for the US and Japanese markets. The firm’s newest model is the Hydro Reach: a 4G phone with IP57 waterproof certification. Full immersion in up …

Tags:Kyocera| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 15| Waterproof Displays

JVC Uses IPS Variant

by Tom Allen

At NAB, JVC presented a new range of DT-N studio monitors, each supporting input resolutions up to 2048 x 1080. The 17.3″ DT-N17F, 21.5″ DT-N21F and 23.8″ DT-N24F all feature waveform, vector scope and …

Tags:FFS| Industrial Monitors| IPS| JVC| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Czech Republic Will Move to T2 by 2022

by Tom Allen

The Czech Republic has said that it aims to complete its transition to DVB-T2 within the next six years. A strategy for the development of DTT will be submitted by the end of June.

Tags:Czech Republic| DVB-T & T2| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Vuzix Integrates With GoPro

by Tom Allen

Vuzix has signed an agreement with action camera brand GoPro, gaining access to to the GoPro Developer Programme toolkits. Vuzix has developed the capability to connect its M300 smart glasses to GoPro cameras. Multiple …

Tags:Cameras| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 15| Vuzix

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 15

by Tom Allen

Crystal Display Systems‘ Lucid Vue transparent OLED display is now in stock. The 55″ display has 45% transmittance, 1920 x 1080 resolution and uses poly-Si TFTs. Peerless AV has developed a new range of …

Tags:AMOLED| Broadcast Monitors| China| Display Mounts| Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2016| OLED TVs| Peerless AV| Pricing| Skyworth| Tobii| Transparent Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 15

CN-VOLET AMOLED Will be at SID Display Week

by Tom Allen

CN-VOLET structure diagram. Image: OLED-InfoThe University of Florida developed an organic TFT (OTFT) backplane technology back in 2011, which is especially well-suited for OLED panels. The technology is called carbon nanotube vertical organic light-emitting …

Tags:AMOLED| Backplanes| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLETs (Organic Light Emitting Transistors)| Vol 23 - Issue 15

CDS Takes Displax

by Tom Allen

Crystal Display Systems is now a distributor for Portuguese company Displax, which manufactures after-market touch films. CDS will stock Displax products across the UK and the rest of Europe.

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 15

HTC Chooses Himax for HTC 10

by Tom Allen

Himax has said that its HX8396-C display driver IC is being used in the HTC 10 smartphone. The chip is designed for high-end TFT-LCD phone displays. Neither Himax nor HTC said why the IC …

Tags:Back Panel| Himax| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Color Gamuts and Getting To “True” Colors

by Steve Sechrist

A Kingswood, Surrey BBC engineer once told me that in his R&D lab, NTSC was an acronym for “Never Twice the Same Color” (Ha!) and even though this was a light swipe at our …

Tags:Measurement| Rec 2020| Rec 709| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Ang Lee Making 120 fps Film – Debuts Clip at SMPTE Event

by Chris Chinnock

Ang Lee looks to be the first major director to get the green light for a Hollywood production using 120Hz frame rates. However, major questions remain about exhibitor’s ability to actually screen the movie …

Tags:3D Cinema| 3D Content Creation| 4K DCI| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Creative Lessons Learned in HDR Grading

by Chris Chinnock

In a panel that opened the Future of Cinema conference, a panel of creators from Inside Out and Tomorrowland discussed their experiences in creating their first HDR grades and their desires for next steps. …

Tags:Cinema| Cinema Projection| Disney| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16