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Ultra HD on growth course in Germany

The Deutsche TV Plattform and ZVEI trade association have reported that there are now 2 million UltraHD TV sets in the German market, with 25% of sets sold (total 3.3 million) in the first half of this year having that resolution. This is assisted by more content becoming available. The groups pointed out that user-generated … Read more

‘Jesus VR’ First Public Preview at Venice Film Festival

The film ‘Jesus VR: The Story of Christ’, which is about the life of Jesus of Nazareth, will feature at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The movie lasts for 90 minutes and has been described as “the world’s first ever feature length VR film production”. Jesus VR will be shown in the new VR theater … Read more

Samsung Adds QD Curved Monitors at IFA

Samsung has announced two new curved monitors for games players in the run up to IFA, as well as highlighting the 24″ CFG70 announced at Gamescom in Cologne (High Refresh and Fast Response on Samsung’s Gaming Monitor). The additional models are a 27″ version of the CFG70 model and the CF791 which is a 34″ … Read more

NEC Display Simplifies Access to Kiosk and UHD Content with Launch of New Solutions

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today the availability of display kiosk and UHD solutions. The new solutions provide a simplified way of bringing cutting edge technology to a variety of key markets. “We’ve listened to industry needs and are now addressing them with turnkey … Read more

NEC US Provides UHD Kiosk Solution

NEC Display Solutions in the US has launched new UHD systems for kiosk applications. The systems include a UHD display in a size from 55″ to 98″, together with a one year subscription for UHD content and an Intel i5-powered OPS module. The company is also offering 42″ and 46″ models from NEC’s existing V … Read more

Sunic Systems Enables 2,250 PPI AMOLEDs and FMM OLED TVs

The Korean display manufacturing tool maker, Sunic System announced a new manufacturing method that allows to produce high resolution AMOLED displays using fine metal masks (FMM). While metal masks have been used in AMOLED manufacturing already, the trick to increasing the achievable pixel density lies in the newly designed flat evaporation source. At the recent … Read more

Daktronics Result

Daktronics saw first fiscal quarter sales at $157.1 million with operating income of $8.0 million and net income of $5.5 million, up from $150.2 million, $6.1 million and $3.8 million for the same quarter last year. Order bookings were $175.2 million, up from $165.1 million and the company has a backlog of $$197.9 million. The … Read more

Digicomm Uses BrightSign & LG for Shark Week

Brightsign recently collaborated with a local S.I., Digicomm, to put on a special ‘Shark Week’ at the Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo. There were around 90 displays driven by 42 players to create the sensation of swimming with the sharks. The front display used 28 55″ LG displays, driven by 7 Brightsign 4K players, to … Read more

Chromecast Supports Telia Streaming Services

Telia customers can now enjoy an even simpler and more flexible streaming experience as the TV streaming services in Sweden, Finland and Denmark will work with Google Chromecast. Chromecast is a line of digital media players developed by Google. The small, dongle-like device enables the user to play video content on a TV by directly … Read more