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PMA Bullish on US LFD Sales

PMA Research says that touch-enabled displays, 24/7 capability, bigger sizes and higher resolutions are the main areas driving growth in professional large display sales through distribution in the US. In the AV/IT Distribution channel, PMA’s August sell-through tracking report showed that unit sales of touch-enabled models grew 40% from July. Sales of models warranted for … Read more

HP Promotes Workstations & Monitors

HP had a meeting room to promote its workstations and monitors for use in content creation for the broadcast industry. We heard about the development of the DreamColor products by HP. Disney was a keen user of colour monitors with Trinitron CRTs and when Sony decided to give up making them, the company set up … Read more

Irystec Gets Funding

We recently reported on Irystec, which has developed technology to better match display output to individuals’ vision, and now the company has said that it has successfully closed Series-A financing with investments from BDC Capital, Tandemlaunch and angel investors including the Purple Angels. In early June, Irystec was also a winner at the Silicon Valley … Read more

New Technology Area Round Up

This reporter always enjoy the future technology area at IBC and I often save up visits to the end of a long day. If I get around the ‘moodily-lit STBs’, to quote Paul Gray of IHS, then I head over to the area for some time. The first item for a large number of years … Read more

BCom Converts Between SDR and HDR

B<>Com is a French technology institute, based in the high tech area of Rennes (in the same suburb as Technicolor’s R&D facility), with satellite sites in Lannion and Brest, also in Brittany. It has forty company partners and investment from the French government. At the show, we concentrated on the demonstration of SDR to HDR … Read more

SMPTE Webcast on Projector Colour Grading

SMPTE is holding one of its Emerging Technology webcasts on Thursday 6th October at 1pm EDT, 10am PDT, 5pm UTC and 6pm BST. The theme is Uber Master Creation using an HDR Movie Projector and Thad Beier of Dolby Laboratories will be talking about the future of colour grading. He will discuss the problems of … Read more

Not Enough Capacity for Flexible G6

The ChosunBiz in Korea has reported that a senior LG manager has promised “I will not repeat this mistake” with the next smartphone, the G6, after disappointing sales of the G5, which had modular features. It looks as though the hopes of being able to use a flexible display, to compete with the Samsung Edge … Read more

NFL Network Chooses Planar

The sports-oriented NFL Network has taken delivery of six Planar 55″ LookThru OLED monitors. The FHD transparent displays, which use Samsung’s OLEDs, are installed in its GameDay studio. Analyst Comment There won’t be many more of these as Samsung is not developing production. At ISE, Eyevis of Germany told us that it is really disappointed … Read more