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Panasonic announced its PT-RZ12K laser phosphor projector at Infocomm, a new model that comes with 12,000 lumen and three DLP chips (0.96″ WUXGA 1920 x 1200 resolution) and boasts a 20,000:1 contrast ratio. With a 120 Hz refresh rate it is compatible with high frame rate content. The projector comes with no standard lens and … Read more
DD Technologies, a Vancouver, Canada-based company has started its crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo. So far it has reached around 35% of its $50,000 goal in one week. The head up display (HUD) is projection based and comes with a resolution of 720p. Most interestingly there are two versions under development, Iris DLP and Iris … Read more
I’ve been an educational technology director for 25 years, with a significant track record in large educational technology and AV purchases. I just returned from walking every aisle of Infocomm 2015, poking my head into corners it certainly didn’t belong in. Education Perspectives I was searching for promising trends, developments and products that might offer … Read more
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced the introduction of the U24E590D and U28E590D, the first Samsung UHD monitors with AMD’s FreeSync™ technology. These UHD monitors offer unprecedented picture quality for gaming, entertainment and multi-tasking activities. The U24E590D and U28E590D are the first UHD Samsung monitors with AMD FreeSync™ capabilities. FreeSync synchronizes the monitors’ refresh rates to … Read more
Danny Barr is from ZeeVee and he talked about extending and switching UltraHD video in mission-critical applications. His talk was entitled “The 3 Cs of Video Distribution:Complexity, Compression and Cost”. ZeeVee’s history is in video distribution and it started by delivering video over coax, while it has added IP distribution now. He started by talking … Read more
Micha Risling is from the HDBaseT Alliance and also works for Valens, the semiconductor company behind the technology. As had already been said, the big challenge in interfaces is how to extend for longer distance and higher bandwidth. HDMI and DisplayPort do a great job, but “how do you extend?”, he asked. The challenge is … Read more
Marshall Goldberg is from Lattice Semiconductor, which recently bought Silicon Image, the developer of HDMI and MHL and the owners of the SiBeam wireless technology. Goldberg went through the history of HDMI from V1.4 at 4K30 in 2009 to SuperMHL in 2014 at 8K120. He also pointed out that the specification for 4k UltraHD on … Read more
The second day of the Display Summit started with a session moderated by our own Bob Raikes that covered connectivity, especially the impact of UltraHD/4k content. The first speaker was Bob Ventresca who is from Thinklogical and he started by saying that there are challenges to getting all the ultraHD content moved around. It’s all … Read more
Jorn Eriksen is from Kverve, a start up from Norway (Eriksen was the founder of CEO of Projection Design, so has some track record in the industry). The project that Kverve is working on started with the walkmouse – using an Oculus Rift set of VR viewers and allowing walking. Eriksen said that you quickly … Read more
As part of its 2015 4K Ultra HDTV lineup, which includes six new series, Sony Electronics announced today pricing and availability for the X900C and X910C series 4K Ultra HD TVs. X900C 4K Ultra HD TV – [$2,499, $3,999] 55″ class (54.6″ diag) , 65″ class (64.5″ diag) X910C 4K Ultra HD TV – [$5,499] … Read more
BenQ pitted its HC1200 projector against two other unmarked projectors in a comparison of brightness and colors with a reference monitor as a guide at Display Summit 2015.
One of the challenges in projection mapping applications is properly registering your projectors to the objects to be projected onto. Now with two cameras, the projectors used for the mapping and some software, Christie is able to properly capture the 3D space and calibrate each projector in under a minute.
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