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AUO held a ceremony at its G6 (1500×1850 mm) LTPS fab in Kunshan, China, this week to celebrate the first 5.5″ 1920 x 1080 LTPS LCD panel produced there. The Kunshan fab is expected to begin mass production in Q4 this year. AUO Kunshan fab is the Company’s first front-end LCD fab in China and … Read more
Optoma’s HD27 is the company’s newest DLP projector for the home entertainment space, bringing Rec.709 support and a compact form factor for ease of relocation. Multiple picture modes are built in to the unit, including Reference (replication of Rec.709) and Gaming (maximising contrast and colour while lowering response times). It is able to show 10-bit … Read more
The B2B Philips monitor that MMD previewed last week, and will appear at IFA 2016, is officially known as the 272B7QPTKEB. This 27″ display features a pop-up webcam that is usually hidden in the display frame. MMD says that this makes the monitor more secure if a network is hacked. Like other professional Philips displays, … Read more
Musician, comedian and writer James Veitch was in a tight spot at the opening of his third show, ‘Game Face’, at the Edinburgh Fringe – but Optoma stepped in to help. Veitch contacted the company for a bright, high-resolution and short-throw projector to use in his act; Optoma shipped an EH200ST model up to Edinburgh … Read more
LED-laser projectors from Casio have become the first lamp-free models in the world to achieve TCO 2.0 certification. The projectors are Casio’s XJ-F210WN, XJ-F100W, XJ-F200WN, XJ-V110W and XJ-V100W.
US-based cinema chain AMC and Dolby have, due to very positive guest reactions, announced plans to accelerate the deployment of Dolby Cinema technology. The companies will install Dolby systems at 100 AMC locations before the end of 2017: seven years ahead of schedule. They are also working to expand the original agreement, signed in 2015, … Read more
Asus, under its Republic of Gamers brand, is sponsoring “The International” – said to be the world’s most lucrative eSports tournament. The International 2016 has a prize pool of $20 million. Asus is providing its laptops (ROG Strix GL702) and monitors (ROG Swift PG248Q) for the Dota 2 competition, which runs from the 8th – … Read more
Gerhard Schulz, who worked for Ingram Micro since 2000 and has led the European arm since 2013, is leaving the distributor on the 30th September. Marc Snider, formerly head of the Canadian branch of Ingram Micro, will replace Schulz. Schulz’s departure comes at the same time as a corporate restructuring, which will see all region … Read more
NEC will hold a training day in Germany at the end of September, at Delo Computer GmbH in Recklinghausen. The day will cover NEC’s projector portfolio, product installation and software solutions, as well as an overview of current projection technologies. NEC will run the event from 10:00 till 15:00 on the 28th September. Interested parties … Read more
Super 8, a DOOH company in Spain, has installed a 222m² LED screen in Madrid. The 6m x 37m display, installed on a skyscraper in the Plaza del Callao, has a 6mm pixel pitch and uses Samsung LED modules. Super 8 also operates several more DOOH screens in Madrid, which were produced by Daktronics.
Panasonic once again sponsored the displays at the Olympic Games, providing TVs, projectors and LED screens. As an Official Partner of the Games, Panasonic supplied 110 DLP projectors for large ceremonies and an additional 100 projectors for other events. It also supplied 15,600 TVs; 72 large-format LED displays (1,886m² in total); 1,300 monitors for the … Read more
Interest in micro-LED as a display technology is rising, helped – at least in part – by interest from Sony (Cledis screens) and Apple (through its LuxVue acquisition). LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, has forecast that micro-LED technology will be adopted for wearables in 2018, and for smartphones in late 2020. Higher brightness, contrast and … Read more
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