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SID Showfloor Round Up

3M was showing a 31″ 2560 x 1440 monitor reference design that supports 94% of the Rec 2020 using the company’s QD-based QDEF film in an edge-lit configuration and using an optimised DBEF. Brightness is 300 cd/m² and lifetime is 30,000 hours (at 400 cd/m²). Another demonstration was a 27″ UltraHD monitor which had 350 … Read more

Vivendi Returns to Gaming

Vivendi launch a hostile takeover bid aimed at Gameloft, the French games studio and owner of the Gameloft Live game streaming service, in February. Now, local sources say that the firm has secured the majority of shares it requires. Vivendi apparently convinced Amber Capital, which owns a 15% stake in Gameloft, to sell. Vivendi confirmed … Read more

Apple Grows to Third-Largest STB Vendor

From ninth place in 2014, Apple surged in global set-top box revenue to reach third place in 2015, according to IHS. STB growth last year came from a strong increase in consumer retail OTT box sales and the consolidation of some of the largest players (Arris acquiring Pace and Technicolor taking Cisco’s STB division). More … Read more

NIF Switches From Film to Laser

The Giant Screen Theatre at the National Infantry Museum in Georgia, USA has been upgraded from film to 6P laser, by Christie and D3D Cinema. Two Solaria CP42LH projectors were installed, throwing content onto the 12.2m x 21.9m screen. The National Infantry Foundation originally wanted a lamp-based model, but was convinced to switch to laser … Read more

JCB Values DPI’s Colour Reproduction

Antycip Simulation chose to install Digital Projection’s HIGHLite Laser projectors in JCB’s new Uptime Centre control room. The facility is located at JCB’s headquarters in Rochester (UK), and runs 12 hours every day, collecting live data from JCB machines worldwide. Four DPI projectors were installed, each a 3DLP model with up to 11,000 lumens of … Read more

Hybrid QD-LED Raises Efficiency

PQC LED hybridised with QD colour converters

(a) Schematic representation, (b) cross-sectional, and (c) top SEM images of a photonic quasi-crystal LED hybridised with QD colour convertersA An international research group has used quantum dots to create a hybrid LED. QDs are embedded within the whole stack of the LED’s active layers. This photonic quasi-crystal LED structure boasts ‘record-breaking’ colour conversion effective … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 21

The 6000 series of TVs that Philips will launch this year (Ambilux Coming to Philips This Year) will use the Google Cast protocol. 43″, 49″, 55″ and 65″ sizes will be available. Unusually, the company has chosen to vary panel types across the range. The 43″ and 65″ sets will use VA panels; the 49″ … Read more