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Imagine Communications to Spotlight Next-Gen Innovations at INTX 2016

Imagine Communications, empowering the media and entertainment industry through transformative innovation, will be exhibiting solutions from across its market-leading multiscreen distribution and ad management portfolios at INTX 2016, an annual exhibition of the latest technology innovations for the Internet and television industries. The three-day event, which begins May 16 in Boston, will be the venue … Read more

Lattice Semiconductor Enhances Portfolio of Video Interface Bridging Solutions for the Industrial Market

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, the leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions, today announced the broad availability of 19 HDMI® products geared towards the Industrial market. The suite of HDMI transmitters, receivers, port processors and video processors enable seamless “plug and play” connectivity beyond the traditional CE and mobile applications. Video is prevalent throughout the Industrial … Read more

Challenges in the Public Display Market

It’s been a very busy week at our company as we finalised our quarterly data for the Public Display and Desktop monitor markets and Tom was at a UK TV event, as well as writing up his report on the Berlin event that he attended last week. Meanwhile, I also attended an event run by … Read more

Compound Photonics Shows Native 4k Imager

Compound Photonics was presenting new products at Display Summit China (Display Summit China Identifies Projection Industry Successes and Challenges) recently. A product that we did not cover in our main report was much smaller: a native UltraHD imaging device, with a diagonal measurement of 14mm and sub-3µm pixels. However, little information was available about it.

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 19

A very low-cost laptop, which takes all of its computing power from a connected smartphone, is being launched on Kickstarter by Androminium. Called the Superbook, the unit is a laptop shell that connects to an Android phone via USB. Androminium has built in the technology to translate video over USB – all that is required … Read more

BlackTrax Follows Scene Changes in Moscow

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment has been brought to the stage at the Moscow Musical Theatre – with the help of BlackTrax. The projection elements were custom-designed by the Theatre’s partner, Polymedia, which made use of the BlackTrax real-time motion tracking system. The system was used with eight large-format projectors and a media server, tracking … Read more

BenQ Takes Technicolor Certification

BenQ’s PV270 LCD monitor (BenQ Combines Technologies for Colour Consistency) has been awarded with the Technicolor Color Certified certification. It is said to be the world’s first display with four accurate Technicolour colour spaces: DCI-P3, Adobe RGB, Rec.709 and sRGB. Portrait Displays provided the colour software for the monitor.

BBC White Paper Meets Mixed Reactions

The UK government has been debating the future of the BBC for several months (talks that we have reported on have revolved around the whether the licence fee is still relevant, and the iPlayer), and has now released a white paper containing its recommendations. These include: The replacing of the BBC Trust with a ‘strong … Read more

EMEA Public Display Sales See New Value High

Sales volumes in the EMEA Public Display market slipped back in Q1 2016, by 4.7% on a quarterly basis, but 8% up over Q1 2015, according to Meko’s DisplayCast Public Display service as the most developed markets of Germany and the UK slowed in growth. However, on a value basis, because of the increasing share … Read more

FlexTech Completes US Army R&D

FlexTech has completed three flexible hybrid electronics R&D projects, under its US Army Research Laboratory technology investment agreement. They include a project with ENrG (Buffalo, New York) to develop a flexible ceramic substrate (20µm thick); a 3D printer for the rapid prototyping of new electronic devices, with nScrypt (Orland, Florida) and a flexible sensor platform … Read more