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Apantac Shows 4×4 HDMI matrix Switch at Infocomm 2015

Apantac, the Oregon, USA-based manufacturer of pro AV components such as switches, matrices, receivers, splitters, converters, scalers and signal processing equipment, announced a 4×4 HDMI clean seamless matrix switch with HDBaseT connectivity. The switch allows four HDMI devices in various resolutions to be independently switched to four HDMI displays with a fixed resolution up to … Read more

Sunbrite DS Shows 2,500 nit Outdoor Display

Sunbrite DS, the California-based company which manufactures outdoor digital signage and TV displays, announced two new devices at Infocomm 2015. The first LCD display is the 55″ Marquee with a brightness of up to 2,500 cd/mm². The display has a contrast ratio of 4,000:1 and operates from -40ºF (-40ºC) to 122ºF (50ºC) during operation and … Read more

Samsung Pushes LED Again

We met up with Samsung and got a tour of the booth. The big news is, of course, the further development of direct LED, with 1.5mm indoor product coming from Samsung’s own LED display production in Suwon, and with 2.0mm and 2.5mmm also available. 1.15mm pitch displays will be available in early 2016 and pitches … Read more

Mersive Adds Solstice Pod to its Collaboration Solution

Mersive, the Colorado, USA-based company, announced its new Solistic Pod solution at Infocomm. The box is Android-based and provides display support up to UHD (3840 x 2160) resolution via an HDMI 1.4 connector. 4k video streaming is limited to 30 fps though. With dual band Wi-Fi, the streaming of 4k/UHD content will require compression for … Read more

Jupiter Brings Canvas CRS-4K to the US

Jupiter Systems brought its Canvas CRS-4K conference room system for the first time to Infocomm and announced that the system is now shipping to customers. The system allows for sharing up to 8 simultaneous sources on either one UHD/4K display or four FHD displays. Using the SimpleShare technology, users can share their content wirelessly from … Read more

Coretronic Sells Laser TV in China

In a meeting room, DLP projector specialist Coretronic was showing a “laser TV”. This was a complete system consisting of a 3000-lumen UST projector that sits on the floor and illuminates a 100″ screen (from DNP) that uses light rejection to maintain good contrast and image performance. A sound bar forms part of the system. … Read more

AVnu Offers IEEE Compliance Testing

AVnu is an 85 member strong industry alliance based in Oregon, USA that provides IEEE compliance testing as a service. It focuses on testing time sensitive solutions in network environments based on the ethernet protocol. The AVnu certification allows its members to advertise as AVnu-certified products. It does not only test member products but also … Read more

Panasonic Starts with Smart Signage

Panasonic used its direct led to advertise its projectorsPanasonic was highlighting, as it started to say at ISE, that its ‘open’ (that is, open to third party software vendors) platform that is based on an Android core (although with no access to the Play Store) is now gathering support and we heard that there is … Read more

PowerTechnology offers RGB Laser Solution for Cinema Retrofits

At Infocomm we were surprised to find a company selling RGB laser systems that it is marketing to cinema exhibitors to replace Xenon light sources. Four rack-mounted solutions, branded Illumina Cinema Laser System, are available at 10K, 24K, 34K and 65K lumens for retrofit to NEC, ECS, Christie and Barco projectors. The company also integrates … Read more

Vivitek Working on LP Projector

Vivitek, which is the projector brand company for Delta Electronics, was at Infocomm to showcase its products. No new products were announced, however. Vivitek is currently an all-lamp projector house, but it is working on a laser-based projector to be called the LU8000. Little information was available, other than it will be available in Q1’16 … Read more

Wowza Announces Video Streaming from the Cloud as a Service

Wowza provides a video streaming engine for content creators and announced the new 4.2 release at InfoComm. The software allows for video streaming up to 4k. The streaming engine transcodes , prepares and delivers the video to the end user. The solution also includes DVR functionality for the consumer and DRM encryption. The company offers … Read more