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AUO took a meeting room at the Holiday Inn by the RAI to meet with customers (and a small number of others) to show off their latest panels for digital signage and A/V applications. We went along. First we looked at the firm’s latest video wall panels which are already in mass production with 55″ … Read more
The Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) is entering a new era of projection, as Barco’s Flagship Laser projector will screen a selection of movies at this year’s festival. For this 66th edition, Barco set up a Flagship Laser DP4K-60L projector at the impressive Friedrichstadt-Palast venue, Europe’s biggest show theater (1,895 seats). Here, the festival shows … Read more
Kyocera Corporation announced that it was recognized as one of the 2015 Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters, a worldwide provider of intelligent information for business enterprises and professionals, for the second consecutive year. Kyocera was highly recognized for its patent success rate and global reach; a trophy was presented at the company’s headquarters … Read more
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed an “aerial display” that projects images measuring approximately 56 inches diagonally (886mm wide and 1,120mm high) into midair. This display will have a wide range of potential applications, and Mitsubishi Electric will proceed with development with the aim of seeing the technology commercially available from 2020 onward in digital signage, … Read more
Apple has refused a request by the FBI, made following the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino in December, to modify iOS and published an open letter explaining its reasoning. The company writes that it was asked to create a new version of iOS, to be installed on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. This software … Read more
Vestel had a new line of video wall displays called the VDW Series. These can be operated in portrait or landscape and are available in 47″ and 55″ sizes – both with 1920 x 1080 resolution. They have a 3.8mm pixel-to-pixel distance and either 500 or 700 cd/m² of brightness. Both display sizes can be … Read more
Toshiba has been developing its signage business. Although Toshiba’s PC and consumer businesses have been under pressure for the last couple of years, the B2B business is the focus for the future and the team at ISE is positive about the future of its LFD operation. It now has 200 resellers and plans to increase … Read more
Infinitus is a DOOH firm from Slovenia, whom we have covered several times before; the company produces the popular iMotion Flow LFD range, and was demonstrating interesting products at ISE. Record sales were achieved in 2015, and Infinitus is positive about the European DOOH market going forward. The company is currently rolling out a series … Read more
Eizo group company Tech Source, a US-based unit specialising in ruggedised graphics and video products, is changing its name. From the 1st April, the firm will be known as Eizo Rugged Solutions Inc. Eizo believes that the change reflects its commitment to driving new business in the global rugged commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) market. (Eizo bought Tech … Read more
Display makers are expanding flexible AMOLED production capacity, to deal with rising demand – largely spurred by the growing popularity of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge and the Apple Watch. IHS says that such displays had a 2% share of the AMOLED market in 2014, but 20% last year – 57 million units. Rigid panel shipments, … Read more
The first product we looked at on the ViewSonic booth was the new PJLS830HDS UST projector which is based around a laser phosphor engine with FullHD resolution and 4,000 Ansi lumens of output and 20K hours of light source life. It can be used as close as 0.25 metres from the screen. The projector is … Read more
ISE 2016 ran from the 9th – 12th February in Amsterdam’s RAI exhibition centre: the first four-day show in in the event’s history. Although we heard differing reasons for the change (too much to see, health risk, Amsterdam becoming overcrowded…), we can say that it was definitely a positive one. Registered attendees rose 10.7% YoY, … Read more
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