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Portuguese broadcaster RTP has announced that it will launch an UltraHD channel this year, in preparation for the Euro 2016 football tournament. Eight matches will be shown live, including the opening and closing games (20th June and 10th July).
IHS held an analyst’s briefing meeting at the end of the recent TV Connect event in London and we went along to see what the company had to say. It was a short event, with ‘high bandwidth’ – which left more time for networking. After a very brief ‘hello’ from Ben Keen, Piers Harding-Rolls looked … Read more
DuPont Teijin Films makes the organic films behind the flexible displays from, for instance, FlexEnable. Currently these require conventional (rigid) transistors, as DuPont’s are not ‘smart’ enough to do more than a very basic phase change: for instance, turning a black pixel white in electronic paper. Work is being done on this. FlexEnable was showing … Read more
Marek Ramsi is with LG Display’s lighting division, and discussed OLEDs for lighting. He began by showing a video from LG’s stand at the recent Light & Building conference in Frankfurt, where the firm showed off the world’s largest flexible OLED lighting panel: 320mm². The current theoretical maximum size for OLED lighting panels is 370 … Read more
ZTE Mobile Devices, a leading global mobile device maker, today announced that following its success in European countries and the United States, its traveling roadshow for consumers to experience ZTE devices is expanding to Spain. The Europe tour kicked off in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress on February 21st, and passed through Germany, Poland, Italy … Read more
In a partnership that could change the lives of millions of people, NuEyes, a pioneer in the field of low-vision technology, and Osterhout Design Group (ODG), maker of the world’s most advanced Augmented Reality (AR) smartglasses, today announced the availability of portable head-worn devices that can re-open the wearer’s eyes to a world they believed … Read more
Sony’s 3LCD laser projectors were chosen by the University of Bath for installation in lecture halls, and Sony has published a video case study of the work (http://tinyurl.com/hycl99o). An efficient and low-maintenance solution, which would also appeal to students, was key. The University chose six VPL-FHZ55 and four VPL-FHZ700L projectors, and says that feedback has … Read more
SensoMotoric Instruments has launched a developer kit for the Samsung Gear VR, with its eye tracking technology integrated. ‘Unobtrusive’ eye tracking cameras have been added to the device, and the phone (used as the display) has SMI’s tracking software pre-installed. We saw a prototype of the device at MWC this year (Plenty to See at … Read more
IHS expects public display shipments to rebound this year, with recovering regional economies and a rising number of large projects. Unit shipments will grow 9.3% YoY to around 3 million units, and revenues will climb even faster: 15.3% YoY. Rising ASPs will help that figure; IHS forecasts an increase from $1,826 last year to $1,926 … Read more
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in home entertainment, today announced that its first Ultra HD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500, has been awarded UHD Premium Certification by the UHD Alliance (UHDA). The new certification, introduced in April 2016, is granted to Ultra HD Blu-ray players that comply with rigorous performance standards for resolution, high dynamic … Read more
Wowing crowds of 17,000, Dutch superstar Marco Borsato’s Symphonica in Rosso is one of the most spectacular series of performances in history. Held at Amsterdam Ziggodome Arena during 2016, 12 sold-out concerts broke all boundaries in terms of technical creativity, innovation and wizardry. Jo Pauly, d3 operator and programmer from Belgium-based Visual Solutions was brought … Read more
DVIGear has opened an office in the UK. The distribution office, in London, will be run by Steve Mattingly, who has previously worked at TVOne (as EMEA general manager, EMEA managing director and later president), Scanom and Vine Micros.
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