Cisco’s dual camera vc display is high end, but powerful for corporatesCisco was showing its range of camera-integrated high end displays. There are dual 70″ ($82,000), dual 55″ ($45,000) and a 70″ single (MX800 Single) conference room systems. They have one or two very high quality pan/tilt & zoom (PTZ) cameras for high end conferences. The dual displays have 12 microphones integrated and can identify who in the room is speaking. While one camera shows the last speaker, the other searches out the next speaker, using audio and facial recognition, and zooms in automatically. The system is impressively sensitive, but it should be at that price!
An eagle-eyed observer pointed out to us that on a partner booth was a Dell monitor that was a bit bigger than the 55″ monitor that we saw at Gitex and BETT (and was also on the Chief booth at Infocomm). We reckon it was a 70″ model and we suspect it was being tested on the market.
Despite the sudden increase in the number of competitors, Daktronics was phlegmatic about its place in the market. The company was showing 1.9mm and 2.6mm LED and the company was highlighting the high brightness (1,500 cd/m²) and relatively low power consumption. The firm also said that its controllers could push down to lower levels of brightness with good bit depth.
Dynascan was showing the DS551LT4 that it showed at ISE and was also highlighting its 5,000 cd/m² 47″ monitor and its 7,000 cd/m² 55″ product. Dynascan told us that it quotes brightness after calibration – which surprised us, but it explains why its displays always look good. The company said that it can do this because of its very long experience with LED management in backlights.
FlatFrog was showing its latest optical touch technology, which is unusual in being inside a glass substrate on the display, eliminating the need for a protruding bezel. The news was of a move into real production. The company has signed Wistron as an OEM partner and Optika as an OEM using the technology in a 65″ collaboration product.
The firm signed a deal with “a big US PC producer” (it’s HP – Man. Ed.) a while ago and it has now added another at 23″. It told us that it has ‘several’ 42″ wins and 55″ and 65″ are now in mass production. FlatFrog can distinguish between a pen, a finger and an eraser and that means it can meet the Windows 10 requirements. Using a pen on the surface switches the firm’s software directly into pen mode.
Hall Research has an active HDMI cable that uses “a hybrid of copper and fibre” to support lengths from 50′ to 200′ (15m to 60m).
Infitec of Bavaria, which licenses its 6P technology for cinema through Dolby, said that its latest glasses for 6P use are less than 25 grams in weight and reduce reflectance to less than 10%. As a result, the problems mentioned by RealD at Display Summit are said to be substantially reduced.
Infitec was teasing us when it told us that it has a completely new approach to stereo 3D that will “completely blow the lid off Premium 3D” – a solution that will “only cost a fraction” of today’s technology. We’ve been promised an early look at the technology which should be available in the fall and has, apparently, already been tested by Barco and Christie.
Matrox was showing its latest Matrox Mura I/O system which can now capture and encode 4K content in real time. The MURA-IPX-I4EF 4K capture and IP encode/decode PCIe board adds H.264 level 5.2 encoding to stream and record video wall content – including video wall sources, displays or regions-of-interest. We speculated that the same technology will eventually migrate to the Matrox Maevex distribution product range – and staff didn’t argue!
Mitsubishi was showing how its lamp-based rear-projection cubes can have their engines replaced to create, effectively new units, without any need to modify the control room. When used in the high end 78 series, lifetimes can be up to 100,000 hours. The company also had the 120 series on show that it launched at ISE. The latest versions use new LEDs and drivers that reduce power by 20%. The slimmer 60HU12 cube (60K hours) is already shipping. Mitsubishi has been active in large LED for a long time with its Diamond Vision product and it is now looking at small pitch LED for indoor use.
Pallas was showing off its ‘7th generation’ of led-backlight system for hiding the bezels on ultra-narrow bezel monitors. The system has moved on from the last time we saw it earlier this year and the company told us that it has improved it to overlap the bezels and leave no gap. The system is used on just the top and left of the panel. We asked if there was a price drop, but the company told us that it had included more LEDs now, so no price drop is being given. We also noted that the latest system is significantly better when viewed from a wide angle that the version that we saw at ISE.
