Once again, NEC didn’t have a lot of new products to show us as we have recently reported from the NEC Showcase in London. However, the company pointed out to us that it is very happy about the C Series of LFDs, shown in London, that are much thinner, making it much easier to meet the ADA accessibility regulations in the US as the total depth can be kept to less than 4″, including the bracket.
NEC also told us that it is getting a good response to the Raspberry Pi initiative and that even where systems are being built around an OPS computer, the Pi is being installed to act as a fall back in case of a problem, an application we hadn’t previously considered.
Other demonstrations were mainly ‘solution-based’ although tere was a good demo of the consistency of accurate colour that is available from the company, from desktop monitors to LFDs. The company also showed the flexibility of the Hiperwall solution that it promotes.
NEC showed how it could deliver colour consistency from the desktop to LFDs. Image:Meko
There were samples of NEC’s LED range and we heard that in the US, the company is now beyond the ‘toe in the water’ and is increasingly looking to LED. Sales at the moment are split, broadly, 50%/50% between retail and corporate applications – both markets where NEC has a strong presence. A range of different pitches were shown to help buyers understand the optimum for a particular application.
It was no surprise, given the issues with screen burn at last year’s Infocomm, that this year the company was not showing an OLED display.
