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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

AVB to Become Time Sensitive Network (TSN)

There are many emerging methods to transport audio and video over IP networks and one of those approaches is called AVB (Audio-Video Bridging) or sometimes eAVB (Ethernet AVB).The development of the standard, compliance and other matters is handled by the AVnU Alliance. At Infocomm 2015, we met with them to get an update on the … Read more

Samsung Display Executive Talks About the Importance of Curvature in TV Displays

Samsung Display Co., Ltd., the largest producer of LCD and OLED electronic display panels in the world, today posted a blog from the chief of its development center that speaks to the visual and technical beauty of curved TV displays, and why Samsung believes these displays will have a long life in the global marketplace. … Read more

Sony Highlights Projection and Laser Sources

At Sony, we looked at the VPL-FHZ60 and VPL-FHZ60 projectors which are laser-based projectors using the 3LCD imaging and laser-phosphor to create a full range of colour. Sony talked at SID about what it can do to improve the lifetime of this kind of material (Sony Describes New Laser Phosphor Projector Improvements) and these projectors … Read more

Gefen Shows Wireless 4K Transmission at Infocomm

Gefen showed a UHD/4k wireless transmission over two 2k transmitters at Infocomm 2015. The transmission stitched two FHD/2k streams together to achieve a UHD signal transmission in the 60 GHz band with a range of 33′ (10m). The signal was used to run a racing game on a UHD TV in uncompressed (4:2:0) 30 fps … Read more

Smallest Barco Cinema Projector Takes Digital Cinema Where it’s Never Gone Before

Barco, global market share leader in digital cinema projection, is proud to introduce the smallest member of its digital cinema projector portfolio. The DP2K-6E brings the renowned Barco image quality, reliability, modularity, and powerful Barco Alchemy processing to chains and independent cinemas with screens up to 7.5 meters (24 feet) wide. The brand-new projector will … Read more

Vufine Enters Crowd Funding for Low Cost Smartglasses

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Vufine, a California-based start up has announced its development of a smartglass that provides just the display component without any computer functionality. The company is also entering a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter, which seems to be a necessity for new product developers these days. The Vufine offers an HD 720p imager in a package … Read more