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Two new 3LCD projectors have been launched by Epson, bringing UltraHD imagery to an affordable price point. The EH-TW8300 and TW9300 (also available with wireless connectivity: TW9300W) output 1920 x 1080 natively, but use a pixel shifting technique (0.5 pixels) to simulate UHD. An interesting feature, aside from the resolution, is the fact that each … Read more
The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) has said that US consumer spending on home entertainment products was strong in Q2, up 6% YoY to $4.3 billion. There was a continued shift to UltraHD TVs, with 1.4 million sets sold: a 119% increase from Q2’15. This brings total UHD TV purchases to more than 8 million units. … Read more
In the Olympics of smartphone displays, the Samsung mobile Galaxy Note 7 with its flexible QHD OLED technology is well poised to claim the gold medal. Simply put, the latest display industry shoot-out from DisplayMate Labs asserts “The Galaxy Note 7 is the most innovative and high performance smartphone display that we have ever tested. … Read more
The Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA) announced today that an all-star lineup of brand and agency leaders and decision-makers have agreed to share their insights at the association’s 2016 Video Everywhere Summit. The annual event will be held October 27 at the iconic Roosevelt Hotel in New York as part of Digital Signage Week. … Read more
A quartet of Christie Q Series projectors have enabled a stunning ‘talking sculpture’ to be realised as part of a winning design installation at global engineering firm Arup that incorporated AV as a dynamic element. ‘Heart of Arup’ by DaeWha Kang Design – 2016’s successful entry of the annual ‘No.8@Arup’ competition – is a unique … Read more
In the coming year there are already two record fairs on the agenda of S[quadrat]. From 07th to 10th February, 2017 the LED display specialist will be represented on the meanwhile largest AV trade fair, the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam. Afterwards S[quadrat] is also going to exhibit its products at the EuroShop, which … Read more
Sony is preparing for 8k TV transmissions in Japan (which began this month) by introducing new demodulator and tuner modules. These are the first devices that can handle Japan’s ISDB-S3 transmission system. Samples will begin to be shipped in September. The tuner can automatically handle terrestrial signals, as well as those from digital satellites and … Read more
LEDs illuminate the signs at nightSingapore has become the latest city to use electronic paper displays from Visionect. Eleven bus stops across the city now feature 32″ colour ePaper displays. Power is supplied from solar cells and updates are pushed from a central location over a cellular network. This work is a pilot, but Singapore’s … Read more
Eyevis‘ Slim Cube technology is being used to ease traffic congestion in the UK’s longest (non-esturial) road tunnel. Electrosonic chose to use the 50″ EC-50-LHD-SLIM LED projection cubes for a video wall installation in the Highways Agency control centre at the 6.5km-long Hindhead Tunnel. The cube’s thinness and front access – as no rear access … Read more
We have already covered AMD’s new WX workstation graphics cards (AMD and Nvidia Compete in Video Stitching at Siggraph), revealed in late July, but one development that we missed was the announcement of the Pro SSG add-in board. This unusual graphics card incorporates an SSD and will be launched as a developer kit. The Radeon … Read more
Sky Deutschland will join Sky UK in launching UltraHD services this year. The broadcaster will launch a channel in the autumn, starting with live coverage of football games. A new receiver will be required to watch these services, which will be distributed through satellite and cable. Sky Italia is also understood to be building a … Read more
Nvidia and SMI are working together on a foveated rendering system, which was shown off at Siggraph last month. Foveated rendering is the practice of showing a very high-resolution image where a user is looking, with proportionally lower resolution towards the edges of the user’s vision. SMI has been working with foveated rendering since 2014; … Read more
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