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A patent application by Apple was published that shows a method for creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) images using a dual-LCD approach. While this will definitely work, it is not likely to be a very cost effective commercial approach, so it may never see the light of day. As reported by Apple Insider, the “Devices … Read more
Jabil Circuit reported Q3 net profit of $5.2 million, down 93% YoY from $72 million. Turnover was $4.3 billion, down 2% YoY. For the nine month period, net profit was $216 million, up 9% YoY from $203 million. Turnover was $13.9 billion, up 5% YoY from $13.2 billion.
Ingram Micro is now distributing PC-based PoS systems for Tech Partners Europe GmbH. Ingram is TPE’s first pan-European distributor.
In a bid to focus attention on the colour reproduction of its DLP projectors, Optoma has come up with a new marketing term: Amazing Colour. It is a catch-all piece of marketing, referring to all of the different colour technologies in the products: the (new) colour wheel, different colour modes, colour guarantee and TI’s BrilliantColor … Read more
I had time to sit down with Bill Beck of Barco to talk about speckle, which is inherently related to laser projection – which was a theme at the show for just about everybody! Beck has multiple patents in the area of speckle reduction, and was a founding member of the Laser Illuminated Projector Association … Read more
Texas Instruments (TI) today introduced three high-performance retimers which enable an extended signal range over long traces, connectors and cables without degradation of signal integrity. These devices expand TI’s high-performance retimer portfolio, and support flexible, cost-optimized system design, enabling designers to speed their products to market while maintaining optimal performance. With up to 60 percent … Read more
Industrial control and automation company Festo has used Eizo’s FlexScan EV2450 monitors throughout its new Automation Centre building in Esslingen, Germany. 400 work stations can be found inside, each featuring two of Eizo’s displays. Tobias Reiter of Festo said that the narrow bezel design, price-performance ratio and Eizo’s five-year guarantee were all factors in the … Read more
Gerd Kaiser, senior product manager for large venue projectors, said that the overarching theme for NEC at the show was, “Laser, laser, laser”! This was certainly borne out in the models on display, few of which used lamps. At the front of the stand were NEC’s newest laser models: the 3P NC3540LS (seen as a … Read more
Proceedings from the Display Summit USA and Display Summit China, organised by Insight Media, are now available. They can be ordered at http://tinyurl.com/hbh3vkx. They would make a good accompaniment to the report in this week’s Infocomm show report, where we give an overview of each of the talks at the event.
A new LCD monitor, spotted on Dell’s Chinese website, boasts very wide colour gamut coverage and factory calibration. Known as the UP3017 (not to be confused with the UP3017Q, an OLED monitor seen at CES: Digital Experience Has Lots to See), Dell’s 30″ display covers 99% of sRGB, Adobe RGB, Rec.709 and DCI-P3. It uses … Read more
HP has issued a recall for laptop batteries, supplied in certain models sold worldwide between March 2013 and August 2015. Affected batteries, which have the potential to overheat and catch fire, may also have been sent out as replacements for compatible computers in this time. The affected models are HP, Compaq, HP ProBook, HP ENVY, … Read more
More than 29 million PC monitors were shipped in Q1’16, says IDC – up 0.5% YoY, although a 5.7% QoQ fall. IDC expects the monitor market to decline about 3% annually between 2018 and 2020. However, there will be some growth in specific regions, such as MEA. This region grew for the second consecutive quarter … Read more
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