Valens Extends Video to 800m
Valens and Avago Technologies have collaborated on an HDBaseT fibre-transmission solution that can send HDBaseT video up to 800m. It is based on Valens’ Colligo chipsets and Avago’s AFBR-709HDZ transceivers.
Samsung Listens to Its Smart TVs
Smart TVs have been all the rage recently and together with 4k/UHD technology are seen as the high end technology available in today’s TV sets. Some see smart TVs as one of the reasons for the recent recovery of the TV market. The smart TV followed on from devices like Roku and Apple TV and … Read more
Matrox C420 Video Card for Multi-display Digital Signage and Control Rooms Now Shipping
Matrox has its own secure miniDisplayport outputs Matrox was showing its video wall controllers and Maevex distributors. We had a look at the C420, which is a new low-profile quad output PCI Express graphics card. The firm told us that the card is the fastest fanless card on the market. The card has unusual connectors … Read more
Atlona Scales and Switches UltraHD
Atlona introduced many new distribution products, with a focus on high resolution and framerates. The show marked the company’s largest-ever product launch. Two new HDMI-to-HDBaseT matrix switchers were announced: Atlona’s first able to handle UltraHD at 60fps, with HDCP 2.2. The AT-UHD-PRO3-88M is an 8 x 8 matrix AT-UHD-PRO3-66 is 6 x 6. Both units … Read more
Innolux Starts 2015 with 32% Jump in Sales
Innolux reported a 31.7% year on year increase in sales in January, reaching NT$36 billion ($1.1 billion), though this was down 5.7% from the final month of last year. During January, Innolux shipped 11.4 million large panels, a slight sequential increase of 1.1% but 14% higher than January of last year. Shipments of small and … Read more
Hannstar Sees 10.4% Rise in January Sales
Hannstar saw sales improve 10.4% year on year and 1% sequentially to NT$2.1 billion ($66.6 million) in the first month of the year. The company shipped 36.7 million small and medium panels, 2.5% higher than December and 22% more than January 2014, while shipments of large panels and HannsG products were flat MoM at 53,000 … Read more
Publitec Invests in Christie Products
German AV distributor Publitec has invested in Christie’s new Boxer 4K30 projectors, taking 40 units from the company before it was officially launched at ISE (Christie Overcomes Lamp Limitations). Christie’s Klaus Hilles and Andreas Flemming, CEO of Publitec
Publitec Expands its Rental Range with 40 Christie Boxer 4K30 Units
Christie partner publitec is setting itself apart from the competition, adding 40 new Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors to its rental range. This German audiovisual distributor and events technology company from Herdecke has set a new rental benchmark. The Christie Boxer 4K30 boasts high performance, marking it out as a premium product within the middleweight category. … Read more
VESA Publishes Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard Version 1.4a
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) today published the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard version 1.4a. Replacing eDP v1.4, published in February 2013, eDP 1.4a enables a higher video data transfer rate for increased panel resolution, greater color depth and higher refresh rates. It also incorporates the VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) Standard v1.1, and includes … Read more
Dynamic Focus on 55″ Full HD LCD Public Displays V22 Issue 07
This week we are highlighting LCD Public Displays in the 55″ Full HD category covering sizes 53.5″ to 59.49″ with 1920 x 1080 resolution. There are 10 brands featured in the advertising. Samsung is at the top of the PageShare for the combined three major countries, LG is second and NEC Displays is third. In … Read more
CDS Reacts Well to Transparent Competition
Chris Bartram, MD of Crystal Display Solutions (,CDS) was happy to see Samsung’s exhibit of a square display at ISE. “It draws attention to our own square product”, Bartram told us: an ‘almost-square’ 27.3″ unit called the MO-270-001-LM-SQ. Intended for use in store windows and similar, it has 1,000 cd/m² of brightness and a VA … Read more
Lang Moves, Retains Competencies
Due to the expansion of Samsung’s stand, Lang AG and Panasonic had both moved to a different area of Hall 1 this year. The companies work together closely, and Lang had one of Panasonic’s newest projectors in a demo suite. The PT-DZ21K2 (aka Evolution) is an update to the PT-DZ21K (Display Monitor Vol 19 No … Read more
