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Sony Electronics announced the pre-sale today for its newest lineup of 4K HDR Ultra HD televisions, the XBR-X850D and the XBR-X930D/XBR-X940D series, with exclusive Sony picture enhancing technologies. Powered by Sony’s 4K Processor X1™ advanced image engine, these televisions deliver a better 4K and HDR viewing experience as well as near 4K HDR Ultra HD … Read more
The LX-MU700 projector was Canon’s newest product: it’s a dual-lamp DLP model with 1920 x 1200 resolution. It is designed for long-term and reliable projection; the dual lamps provide redundancy and can be used independently of each other, if required. Each lamp is rated at 350W and lasts 2,000 – 3,000 hours. Brightness is 7,500 … Read more
Sony had special press and installer meetings in New York in early February where we got a chance to see and discuss its 2016 home projector models as well as the latest UHD TVs with HDR/WCG capability. While all the products had been previously introduced at CEDIA or CES, Sony did reveal a few more … Read more
At a special Sony press and installer meeting in New York in early February, we had a chance to get some updates and demos of the latest Sony UHD TVs sets. Picture quality was compared in a nice side-by-side demo and pricing was released. The demo was nicely done. It consisted of Sony’s $30K RGB … Read more
THine Electronics, creator of the V-by-One internal interface, has announced that its V-by-One US technology will be released in Q3’15. V-by-One US is capable of handling 16Gbps speeds per lane (THine Claims 16Gbps Interface), as opposed to 4Gbps for the existing V-by-One HS – meaning that it can be used for 8k video, using eight … Read more
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
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 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 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
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
UK distributor, Entatech, has reached agreement after a long running dispute with tax authorities related to a previous subsidiary, ChangTel, that went into liquidation. The company has also completed an MBO and has been taken over by display industry veteran, Dave Stevinson, who owns the company via Stevinson Capitol Ltd.
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
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