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Ricoh Expands its Projector Line to Address Broader Applications at InfoComm16

Ricoh is on track for a banner year in the expansion of its projector line, addressing customers’ needs in a variety of areas, from home entertainment to the new world of work. Its growing projector portfolio has expanded with 13 new models since InfoComm15, featuring LED and laser alternate light sources, and home theater and … Read more

Ginsbury showcasing new 12.1-inch Ground Vehicle Display at Eurosatory 2016

Specialist display supplier Ginsbury and IEE Inc, a manufacturer of enhanced displays for military applications, will be exhibiting at the Eurosatory defence and security exhibition in Paris, France on June 13th-17th. In addition to an array of smart and flat panel displays, Ginsbury will be featuring the new IEE 12.1-inch ground vehicle display. IEE have … Read more

Technical Paper Rates SMI’s Tracking Highly

Professor Ralf Engbert of the University of Potsdam, Germany, has published a technical paper (http://tinyurl.com/gn5jyw3) on SMI’s 120Hz native, binocular eye tracking. His findings support the trend of high-end tracking research going mobile in certain applications. In the past, velocity-based detection of saccades (rapid movements of the eye) have been the preserve of desktop systems, … Read more

ITU HDR Recommendations Coming Soon

David Wood, CM-UHD chairman at the DVB Project office, has spoken about HDR to ANGA COM attendees in Germany. HDR TV recommendations are due to be released by the ITU-R on the 4th July. Recommendations include both the perceptual quantiser (PQ) system and hybrid log gamma (HLG) systems. Dolby favours the PQ approach, while the … Read more

Epson Works on Laser With Lang

Epson Europe has agreed a contract with Lang AG of Germany, to deliver more than 150 laser phosphor projectors. All are part of Epson’s L Series, with a range of lenses. Delivery will commence this month and will take place in three stages. The total value of the deal is around €3 million. Analyst Comment … Read more

Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Available Exclusively at AT&T Starting June 10

AT&T and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. are bringing customers the toughest Galaxy S device for the fourth summer in a row. The water- and shatter-resistant1 Samsung Galaxy S7 active is available exclusively at AT&T. Beginning on Friday, June 10, you can purchase the Galaxy S7 active at www.att.com/galaxys7active or at AT&T stores in Sandy Gold, … Read more

R-series is Barco’s Thin, Light LED Solution

Barco’s R-series of LED displays uses a very thin, lightweight and flexible design, and is capable of attaching to almost any surface – including curved ones. Described as a ‘digital media canvas’, Barco believes that the R-series will enable greater creative freedom for designers, as well as faster set-up time and lower costs. Weight is … Read more

Fujitsu’s Mobile Workstation is Close to Desktop Performance

Fujitsu has released its ‘most powerful ever’ mobile workstation, which brings the product category closer to the performance of desktop units. Available now, the Celsius H760 is a 15.6″ workstation can accomplish all that a desktop model can do, including CAD/CAM work. It uses the Quadro M2000M graphics platform (based on Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture), and … Read more

Lightspeed Develops High-Quality VR Player

Lightspeed Design has built a new VR player platform called the DepthQ VR Film Experience, using its own DQVR codec. The player supports 4:4:4 encoding and CUDA real-time processing. One of the first experiences that will be available is a 90fps flight simulation. We had some questions about the development, and Lightspeed president Chris Ward … Read more

Asus Brings 240Hz to Computex

When we covered Asus’ presence at Computex last week (Asus is Firmly in Phablets), we missed out on some of the company’s new monitors – none of which have full specifications yet, but are nonetheless interesting. First is a new 32″ display called the 5k ProArt, which features a DisplayPort 1.3 connection – meaning that … Read more

LG Claims 30-Year OLED Lifetime

The Korea Times has visited an LG Electronics OLED TV manufacturing facility, detailing the testing that goes into each set – and finding an interesting tidbit about OLED lifetimes. Reporters were invited to view the G3 and G4 lines at the Gumi factory, which produces around 10,000 OLED TVs each month. It is the base … Read more