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Amazon’s selection of 4K HDR UHD Blu-ray movies already surpasses 100 titles

Amazon now has 100 titles of UltraHD Blu-ray discs available not only in the US, but globally, as the format does ...

Samsung Wins Big in Innovation Awards

Several companies have received International CES Innovation Awards. Acer and ZTE were named for the Aspire R 13 Series of convertible ...

Triumph Board Signs Deal with The Change

UK IT and AV specialist The Change Organisation has signed a deal with Triumph Board, a Czech Republic-based manufacturer of interactive ...

SmartKem Wins Flexible Funding

The EU has given UK organic semiconductor company, SmartKem, a €1.8 million grant to transfer its OTFT Truflex platform to mass ...

Screen Innovations Introduces “Rollable TV” Screen

Screen Innovation (SI) did their usual energetic sales pitch at their booth at InfoComm where they showcased a number of their ...

DSF Presents Legacy Award to Past Chair

Kimberly Sarubbi, president of Saddle Rach Digital and recent chairman of the USA’s Digital Signage Federation, is to be presented with ...

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Scanning the Horizon at SXSWedu

by Len Scrogan

My purpose in today’s article is to conduct a speedy reconnoiter of some happenings in the area of technology in the predictive education bazaar that we know as SXSWedu. The SXSWedu® Conference & Festival …

Tags:display technology| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Atomos Brings HDR to Field Monitors

by Tom Allen

Atomos has shown off two new 7.1″ field monitors prior to NAB, which display 10 stops of luminance detail, with 10-bit HDR post production colour accuracy (8-bit + FRC); said to be the first …

Tags:Cameras| Field Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Toshiba Pushes Two Signals At Once

by Tom Allen

Toshiba’s semiconductor division has developed a dual-picture video processor, for high-resolution automotive displays. Mass production of the TC90195XBG chip is scheduled to begin in June. The processor supports a single 1920 x 720 display. …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 23 - Issue 12

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 12

by Tom Allen

AOC has brought its C2783FQ monitor, launched in Australia last year (Australia is First With AOC Monitor), to the USA. It costs $350. The RP750, a large-format IR multitouch display from BenQ, was first …

Tags:BenQ| China| Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LFD - Large Format Display| Microsoft| MMD (AOC Philips)| Pricing| Roku| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| TCL| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Panasonic to Bring Taste of Moscow to Prolight + Sound

by Isaac Oburu

Panasonic will recreate the world’s largest-ever projected image at the forthcoming Prolight + Sound 2016 exhibition from 5-8 April in Frankfurt, Germany. The highlight of the Panasonic stand will be a reproduction of the …

Tags:Events| Germany| Panasonic| Projection

Global Payments Announces Full Support for Android Pay in the UK

by Isaac Oburu

Global Payments Inc., a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, is pleased to offer merchants in the UK the ability to accept Android Pay™, which will offer a range of choices for Android …

Tags:Android| Mobile Apps| Payment Systems| UK (United Kingdom)

Slowing Down Light with a Twist

by Isaac Oburu

Researchers at the University of Ottawa observed that twisted light in a vacuum travels slower than the universal physical constant established as the speed of light by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Twisted light, which …

Tags:Lighting| OLETs (Organic Light Emitting Transistors)| Optical Bonding

Asbis Brings Alcatel to Eastern Europe

by Isaac Oburu

Asbis is distributing Alcatel’s smartphone, tablets and smartwatches in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Tags:Asbis (Prestigio)| Distribution| Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Rift – Finally – Reaches Customers

by Tom Allen

It’s been a long wait – four years since the Kickstarter campaign began! – but the Oculus Rift headset is finally being shipped. Those customers who were able to pre-order the consumer model of …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 12

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Acer Splits to Focus on Recovery

by Tom Allen

Following the split of HP into two separate units, Acer has announced that it is taking the same path, in order to turn around its poor finances (revenue was down 20% YoY last year). …

Tags:Acer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 23 - Issue 12