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The UEFA Championship has kicked off in France, building up momentum for football fans around the world. Two giant 70-square-meter Daktronics LED screens at the Stade Matmut Atlantique, in Bordeaux, give the audience a close look at the beautiful game’s action. Held every four years, the UEFA European Championship consists of qualifying competitions, playoffs and … Read more
Dolby Laboratories has announced the first Dolby Cinema locations in Asia, through a partnership with Wanda Cinema Line. The cinemas – in Dalian, Changchun, Chongqing, and Jinan (China) – feature Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technologies. The first film to be shown was Legendary’s Warcraft. Wanda and Dolby agreed in January to open 100 Dolby … Read more
Smartphone use has been tied to temporary blindness by doctors. Two women were affected after checking their phones in the dark. Doctors described the case in the New England Journal of Medicine. Both women, ages 22 and 40, experienced ‘transient smartphone blindness’ for several months. They lost their vision for up to 15 minutes at … Read more
CTL® has announced their new CTL Rugged Education Chromebook NL61 today. The NL61 is the latest addition to a line of CTL NL6 Chromebooks that CTL first introduced in 2014. Over the years, CTL has updated the original model to meet the changing demands of the digital classroom. With each update, CTL has been able … Read more
I’m writing this editorial at the Digital Signage Summit in Munich. It’s interesting that there is very little about hardware in the whole event – I’m one of only a couple of hardware people on the whole two day agenda (we’ll have a report next week). That seems to reinforce my comments from a few … Read more
NEC has said that its 55″ and 65″ XUHD displays – first seen at ISE this year (NEC has Big Video Wall Plans) – will use a new touch system called InGlass touch, from Flatfrog. The Multisync X551UHD and X651UHD-2 are designed to be used as touch tables. The InGlass touch supports up to 10 … Read more
CE Week is a miniature Consumer Electronics Show held each June in New York to make sure the CES brand is not forgotten between one January and the next. Okay, that may be a bit unfair. Quite a few companies pay to exhibit, and the press – including three U.S.-based members of the Display Monitor … Read more
Leyard, with its subsidiary Planar, won seven awards at Infocomm 2016. Six industry publications presented awards: AV Technology, Commercial Integrator, Digital Signage, Government Video, Sound & Video Contractor and Systems Contractor News. Two products were the recipient of the prizes: Leyard’s TWA Series LED video wall and Planar’s LookThru transparent OLED display.
Matrox is celebrating a win for its Maevex solution in Australia’s University of Technology Sydney – which has just built ‘the largest teaching laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere.’ The use of the Maevex encoding/decoding solution meant that the UTS could avoid going point-to-point. Each of the 12 Maevex encoders can stream to any of the … Read more
Sony, unlike other big names in the cinema projection space, did not have a stand on the show floor. However, we were able to sit down with David McIntosh – the head of the company’s digital cinema business – to talk about Sony’s plans. McIntosh said that Sony has been “a big part” of the … Read more
Apple has patented a phone with a wrap-around display – that is, a display encircling the device entirely. To avoid excessive battery drain, sensors would determine where the user is looking, and only the appropriate display would be turned on. All physical controls have been moved to the bottom of the phone, to take advantage … Read more
Holo-Gauze has said that it supplied the technology to enable Australia’s live performance at the Eurovision Song Contest this year. Three screens were used: two 3m x 5m behind singer Dami Im and one in front of her. The screens were transparent and were used to display holographic-style effects during the show.
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