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Is the Time of Displays Driving Smartphone Sale Coming to an End?

A recent article published by Business Insider (‘A Google director explains how your smartphone will look in 5 years’) included an interview with Aparna Chennapragada, a Google director, at the Web Summit tech conference in Ireland last month. As can be expected, the focus of Google is on how many more apps could lead to … Read more

Is There a New Number for Projector Performance?

Buyers of professional and technical products like to buy on what they hope will be a rational basis. Of course, there is always room for branding, marketing and the sales and marketing processes, but buyers want to buy products based on specifications, if possible, so that they can contrast and compare different products, ideally with … Read more

Prepare for Battle: Gear Up to Tackle eSports

My attention was caught recently by a whitepaper from Juniper Research, titled ‘eSports – Gamers’ New MVP?‘, which goes into detail to examine today’s fast-growing ‘electronic sports’ scene. These are games played competitively on a PC or console, in most cases against other players. While originally they were mostly played for bragging rights, today millions … Read more

The First Demonstration Of Broadcast’s “Next Gen” UHD With High Dynamic Range Content (HDR) Exhibited In Las Vegas To South Korean Broadcast Delegation

With the ATSC standard for next-generation broadcast television nearing completion, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) today invited a delegation of 11 South Korean broadcast industry experts to witness the first end-to-end transmission of UHD High Dynamic Range (HDR) Scalable High Efficiency Video (SHVC) encoded content using the proposed ATSC 3.0 transmission standard. The broadcast … Read more

Tracking Audiences With AT&T

AT&T is trialling a new audience demographics tracker with Clear Channel in the USA. Using the AT&T Data Patterns – Out of Home Media tool, advertisers can track footfall and stats such as average age, genders and ethnicity. It will also measure response to adverts. The system works by tracking the location of AT&T’s mobile … Read more

I/ITSEC Wows With Projector Progress

We conducted multiple video interviews at I/ITSEC 2015, and have links to all of them. Highlights include Christie’s Accuframe Pro system, JVC’s move to 100% solid-state light sources and Third Dimension’s 3D demonstration. Boeing does a nice job of explaining how it built up a very complex synthetic database for flight simulators using multiple inputs … Read more

Pioneer LED Launches in UK

Pioneer LED has launched itself in the UK market, with domestically-manufactured LED displays. Pioneer describes itself as offering ‘a complete turnkey solution…for those seeking to implement or upgrade LED installations within retail, sport, luxury home, and corporate environments’. All products are front-accessible, with pixel pitches from 1.9mm to 6mm. A sub-1mm display will be launched … Read more

Pioneer LED launches in the UK

Pioneer LED is launching to the UK market specialising in custom LED design, specification, installation and content consultancy, offering a complete turnkey solution to the market for those seeking to implement or upgrade LED installations within retail, sport, luxury home, and corporate environments. The LED panels are being manufactured in the UK and will feature … Read more

Sharp Prepares 8k for ISE

ISE preparations are under-way, with more companies having announced their plans for the show. ISE 2016 will run from the 9th – 12th February in Amsterdam. NEC (4.R24) will again split its stand into areas dedicated to the various areas of its business. One of these will be laser projectors, where NEC will demo its … Read more

NEC Display Solutions to offer an immersive experience to visitors at ISE 2016

NEC Display Solutions Europe is set to impress the audience at ISE 2016 trade fair, taking place in Amsterdam February 9 – 12 2016, through an engaging and unique applications showroom. Every day we receive an increasing amount of visual information through digital displays, be it for communication, entertainment or professional purposes. On our way … Read more

Glass, Projection and UHD at CES

Corning, LG and the UHD Alliance have announced their plans for CES 2016 (6th – 9th January, Las Vegas). Corning caused a stir with its 2011 promotional video, A Day Made of Glass (http://tinyurl.com/8psw74h). Now, the company says that the vision has become a reality for retail, automotive, home and other uses. Corning will be … Read more