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Digital Projection is All Laser

Digital Projection (DPI) focuses on high-end installation projectors – several years ago, the company surprised us with its first LED model. This year, all of the projectors on the stand used laser illumination except one: a four-lamp model introduced at InfoComm 2015. Although DPI mostly looks at the 3DLP market, it also produces some smaller … Read more

Vivitek Focuses on Solid State

Projector maker Vivitek was highlighting two laser-phosphor DLP projectors called the DU7090Z (6,500 lumens) and DU8090Z (8,000 lumens). These models use a 400nm blue laser from Nichia, a yellow phosphor and an RG colour wheel that separates out the red and green. We were told that the projectors have a similar gamut coverage to LED … Read more

BenQ Shifts to Laser Phosphor

BenQ showed us a new laser phosphor projector, the LU9235 which is a 1920 x 1200 resolution DLP projector with 6,000 Ansi lumens of output and a promised light source lifetime of 20K hours. Features include 3G-SDI and HDBaseT connectivity as well as embedded edge blending and warping. A range of seven lenses is available … Read more

Peerless Innovates in All Areas

Peerless is making its kiosks less “square”. Image: MekoPeerless had its usual booth in Hall 11 and we started by looking at kiosks. The company has been making enclosures for a range of displays, but Gordon Dutch of Peerless told us that the company thought that previous aesthetics had been very industrial and “square”, so … Read more

Samsung Looks to Outdoor and LED

We reported on a pre-ISE briefing by Samsung last week and so at ISE we spent most time looking at products (Samsung Heads for eBoards) with the company. We started by looking at outdoor displays – the firm is looking for business in this area in Europe. We spoke last week about the UK deal … Read more

Deepsky Challenges Silicon Core at ISE

Up to now, only Silicon Core, with its patented common cathode drive technology, has been able to provide small pitch LEDs at high brightness of up to 2,000 cd/m². Other brands and suppliers have been limited to around 1,000 cd/m² or less. Now that has changed with new LEDs from a company called Deepsky Corporation … Read more

ISE 2016 Round-up

Adder DDX

Absen was showing a new 2.97mm rental LED display system that was being used with an infrared touch system and there was also a good looking 1.2mm indoor display which, as always with Absen, looked good and was well aligned. We noted that the front surface was warm, but LEDs often are! The DDX (Discrete … Read more

Asus Joins the Trek to B2B

Over the last two or three years, we have seen Taiwanese companies (following many of their Japanese counterparts) moving towards the B2B display business. BenQ was one of the first, but we have since seen Acer starting to sell LFDs (although with very limited success so far), and at ISE we caught up with Asus, … Read more

3M Touch Explains its Metal Mesh

As we reported from CES, 3M Touch has now adopted its own metal mesh film technology for its larger touch monitor business. The company told us the reasons that it is able to adopt the technology, without hitting problems with moiré or having to adopt different mesh patterns to match different pixel pitches – the … Read more

ICDM Reorganises Projection Committees

The ICDM has announced that Joe Kane will take over as the chair of its Front Projector Screen subcommittee. Karl Lang, of Lumita Labs (which tests projectors for colorlightoutput.com and who was at ISE promoting the standard), will take the position of chair of the Front Projector Measurements subcommittee. Both will make presentations at the … Read more