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Epson Now Shipping Seven New Pro L-Series Laser Projectors and Ultra Short-Throw Lens for Live Events and Large Venue Applications

Epson, the number-one selling projector brand worldwide, announced it is now shipping its seven new Pro L-Series laser large venue projectors ...

Portrait Displays Pushing Technicolor Certification

We met with Portrait Displays’ Martin Fishman to catch up on the latest developments in the Technicolor certification programme. Toshiba had ...

PTC Releases Major Update to Vuforia – World’s Leading Platform for Augmented Reality Development

PTC today announced availability of Vuforia™ 6, the newest version of its award-winning platform for augmented reality (AR) development. Vuforia 6 ...

70,300 Attendees Convened to Experience the Latest in Video Games and Virtual Reality

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that more than 70,000 people participated in the week’s events, including 50,300 video game ...

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 26

Apple has discontinued the original iPad Mini – the last iOS device that the company made without a retina display. Densitron ...

Ateme Works With Technicolor on HDR

Ateme is integrating Technicolor’s HDR distribution technology into its Titan product. Titan is a multi-codec and -format video transcoding software. The ...

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Imagotag Adds NFC to ESLs

by Bob Raikes

SES Imagotag was formed when Store Electronic Systems acquired Austrian electronic shelf label (ESL) maker, Imagotag. We nearly missed the company at the show, but we were glad we found them as they had …

Tags:E Ink| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| RDSE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Pioneer Group Starts to Supply SPP LED

by Bob Raikes

Pioneer Group of the UK (not the Japanese brand) was showing its recently-introduced discrete LED displays which are currently available for indoor applications in pitches from 1.9mm to 6mm. The company is working on …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| face recognition| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| RDSE 2016| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Optoma Shows Unique Advantages of Projection

by Bob Raikes

Optoma was the only company promoting projection products at the event. Although other projector companies were at the show (e.g. Epson), they were focusing on POS or other products. Optoma was highlighting applications that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Projectors| RDSE 2016| Retail| Vol 23 - Issue 10

GDS Promotes Bonding & E Ink

by Bob Raikes

GDS was showing a range of its more unusual products. First we looked at its ‘floor LCDs’. The company told us that it had made a single installation of 800 of the displays in …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Optical Bonding| RDSE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 10

LG Explains its B2B Strategy

by Bob Raikes

Over the last year, LG has been developing its B2B strategy at a European level and the retail group, based in Amsterdam, was running the booth at RDSE. LG has vertical sales and marketing …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| QSRs & Menu Boards| RDSE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Pyramid Exploits HPC in Retail

by Bob Raikes

Pyramid Computers is a German specialist in high performance computing (HPC). It has three businesses based on this core competence. One is the high performance computing business itself (and apparently its special HPC systems …

Tags:Aviation| Interactive Tables| Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| RDSE 2016| Retail| Vol 23 - Issue 10

AMD Enables eGPUs With Thunderbolt

by Tom Allen

AMD has announced that its new technology, XConnect, is behind Razer’s new Core external GPU product (Razer Shaves Weight From the Blade). The Razer Core is an external GPU Add-in-Board (AIB) holder. Using it, …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Razer| Thunderbolt| Vol 23 - Issue 10

LGD Plans G5 OLED Plant

by Tom Allen

LG Display is to construct a G5 OLED lighting fab in Gumi, South Korea. Initial capacity will be 15,000 substrates, which could be ramped up ‘depending on the market situation’. Analyst Comment LG showed …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Optoma Working on VR

by Tom Allen

Jon Peddie’s Techwatch newsletter has covered a VR story that we missed at CES – but, as the product was only shown behind closed doors, we don’t feel too bad about it. Image: TechwatchOptoma …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Optoma| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 11| wireless communications

SDC Prepares for Transparent and Mirror Rollout

by Tom Allen

Samsung Display unveiled its 55″ transparent and mirrored OLED products in June last year, as part of an exhibit at the Hong Kong Convention Centre. Since then, we have seen them at shows including …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| Samsung Display| Transparent Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 10

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ZTE to Appeal Against Ban

by Tom Allen

ZTE will appeal against the export restrictions placed on it by the USA (US Bans Exports to ZTE), according to sources speaking to the Shanghai Daily. ‘A senior commerce department official’ said, “The US …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 10| ZTE

ASE Fails in SPIL Bid

by Tom Allen

The acquisition of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has not been approved, following a failure to gain antitrust approval. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission neither accepted nor denied the application, which …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 10