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Panasonic Brazil installed the first digital signage system called Digital Media Center consisting of 220 sets of Viera TV and signage server in the country at Arena da Baixada, giving fans full visibility of what happens on the field. The stadium hosted some of the games of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. [Flash Video] Digital … Read more
The GSMA today provided further updates on the 2016 GSMA Mobile World Congress, including new keynote speakers, events and partner programmes. Mobile World Congress will be held 22-25 February 2016 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, with events also taking place at Fira Montjuïc. “We’re just a month away from Mobile World Congress and our … Read more
Kopin Corporation today announced that the Company has received $15 million from IQE PLC, a leading UK-based designer and supplier of advanced semiconductor wafers, as the final payment from the sale of its III-V Product line. Under the terms of the sale, which was completed in January, 2013, Kopin sold its advanced integrated circuit business … Read more
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that some species of giant clams produce their white coloration much like the displays used in televisions and smartphones do – by combining red, green and blue light. The new findings, published in The Optical Society’s high impact journalOptica, could help improve solar cell efficiency … Read more
NEC Display Solutions Europe today celebrates a milestone for digital cinema projectors, with New Lineo cinemas in Israel installing NEC’s 10,000th projector. The milestone marks the evolution of NEC’s cinema-wide portfolio, which enables cinemas to remain at the cutting edge of cinema screen projection technology, whilst ensuring good total cost of ownership (TCO), and to … Read more
We’ve finally got to the end of our CES report. It highlights how much of CES is being taken over by the automotive field and how much concentration there was on AR and VR. This week, the finalising of the report was interrupted by the annual BETT education technology show in London. There was lots … Read more
Barco Silex has validated its new hardware solution IP core against the SMPTE 2042-3 reference. The core is now ready for integrated in ASIC and FPGA designs and can be used to transport UltraHD video. Barco’s solution uses the VC-2 Low Delay codec. The codec compresses video 4:1, which is described as visually lossless). It … Read more
Barco Silex, leading provider of IP cores for the audiovisual industry, has validated its hardware solution for lightweight, low-complexity video compression against the SMPTE 2042-3 reference. The low-footprint core is now ready to be integrated in both ASIC and FPGA designs without need for expensive footprint. This opens up new possibilities for equipment manufacturers as … Read more
Paul Gray of IHS spoke recently at the Hollywood IT Society and Media & Entertainment Services Alliance conference in London, saying that the research firm has increased its UltraHD forecasts for Europe. IHS expects 6.4 million UltraHD TVs to have been sold in Europe (including Russia and Eastern Europe) last year. This will rise to … Read more
NEC Display Solutions Europe is celebrating the installation of its 10,000th projector, with New Lineo cinemas in Israel. Miller & Sons installed an NC900C digital cinema projector in the chain.
Asus has apparently taken on BYD, a Chinese OEM, to manufacture 1.5 million notebooks. Sources say that this represents less than 10% of Asus’ total planned notebook shipments this year. It is thought that the move is partly aimed at increasing Asus’ bargaining power with Quanta and Pegatron.
Microsoft’s big news for education was (still) the Surface Hub (Microsoft Announces Surface Hub as a Collaborative Display Tool): a large-format collaborative display. Since being revealed last year, Microsoft has announced that the Hub will support all Windows Universal apps, like OneNote. The Hub was due to be released in the UK in September, distributed … Read more
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