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World’s Largest Indoor LED Video Wall with Christie Velvet LED at Westgate Las Vegas Resort

A 4,400 square foot video wall boasting over 65 million pixels and comprising 1,640 2.5mm Christie® Velvet® LED tiles at the Westgate Sports SuperBook is keeping visitors to the casino up-to-date on everything from the rugby world cup to tennis. This enormous video wall spans the length of the world’s largest sports book creating a … Read more

BroadSign Selected to Power Airport Media DOOH Displays in the UK

BroadSign International, LLC’s automated digital out-of-home software has been selected by Airport Media to power its DOOH displays at airports in the United Kingdom. Airport Media has a portfolio of static, digital and experiential campaigns within London Gatwick and London Luton airports. The displays comprise a mix of large and small format digital and LED … Read more

Sky Reimagines How We Watch TV

SkyQ is Sky’s new multi-room service for customers who want the most up-to-date pay-TV experience (Sky Overhauls STB, Prepares for UltraHD). As well as all the features of Sky+, SkyQ features a choice of two set-top boxes (SkyQ and SkyQ Silver), one of which will support UltraHD later this year. Andrew Olson is the director … Read more

A New Look for Merck/EMD

Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany and its North American branch, EMD Performance Materials, showed off their new logos and design language at SID Display Week for the first time. The look, startlingly, is more “Age of Aquarius” than “Serious Germanic Chemicals Company,” and that’s precisely the point. In addition to using the redesign as an opportunity … Read more

DOCOMO and Nokia Achieve World’s First Real Time 8K Video Transmission Over 5G

NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has achieved the world’s first wireless real-time transmission of 8K video deploying radio access technology for 5G mobile communications systems, in a trial jointly conducted with Nokia on May 19. The transmission of ultra-high-resolution 8K video was achieved by a combination of an experimental system jointly developed by … Read more

Matrox Graphics to Demonstrate High-density 4K and 8K AV-over-IP Ecosystem at InfoComm 2016

At InfoComm 2016 (Las Vegas, June 8–10, booth N2047), Matrox® Graphics Inc. will showcase the unique power and flexibility of multi-channel Full HD, 4K and 8K real-time encoding for digital signage, control rooms and other AV-over-IP applications. Maevex™ 2 PCI Express® cards that perform quad 4K capture and encoding will be used to stream up … Read more

Microsoft Prepares for 4k Gaming and ‘Xbox TV’

According to Kotaku, Microsoft plans to launch a ‘cheaper, smaller Xbox One’ at this year’s E3 gaming show, and a more powerful model in 2017. Sources say that the 2017 console, code-named Scorpio, will feature a more powerful GPU and will be able to play UltraHD games – not unlike the Playstation Neo (Rumour Claims … Read more

Matrox Demonstrates High-Res Transport at InfoComm

Matrox has announced that it will show a high-resolution AV-over-IP ecosystem at InfoComm 2016. The company will use its Maevex 2 PCIe cards to stream up to 30 sources, at resolutions from 1280 x 720 to 8k. All streams will be decoded and shown on four UltraHD monitors, using Matrox’s Mura IPX Series decoder cards. … Read more

Portrait Displays Controls Colour With Haier

A new AIO PC line from Haier, called Right Key, uses technology from Portrait Displays. The PCs are designed for creative types and feature ‘Real Colour’ colour space selection, with four modes: Work (sRGB D65), Entertainment (Rec.709), Daylight and Low Blue Light. Haier will launch the line in China in June.

Tru-Vu Beats Sunlight

US-based industrial monitor supplier Tru-Vu has produced a sunlight-readable display, with a brightness over 1,000 cd/m² and NEMA 4x certification. As well as the stainless steel enclosure being NEMA-rated, the 21.5″ SRMW-21.5R-SS features Tru-Vu’s ‘Tru-Tuff’ treatment, for shock and vibration resistance. It will also automatically restart after power loss and features anti-reflective cover glass. Optional … Read more