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Christie Partners with Sahara

Christie has signed a new partnership agreement with Sahara Benelux which will distribute Christie’s range of displays in the Netherlands and Belgium. Sahara Benelux will offer Christie’s full range of products, including flat screens, Brio, MicroTiles, Velvet indoor LEDs and projectors. Christie will be at ISE in Amsterdam in February on booth 1-H50.

Kent Display Shows New Products at CES 2015

Kent Display sells a unique type of display. With a black background, it is a note taking pad that can replace pen and paper. Some versions allow saving the notes too. AT CES 2015, they introduced the latest version the Boogie Board 8.1 along with a transparent version aimed at children for fun and educational … Read more

Koenig: How Long Can Mobiles Last?

Steve Koenig is the CEA’s director of industry analysis and he presented a talk before the official start of CES. He began his time on-stage by asking which technologies are driving device sales? There are seven devices that dominate spending: smartphones; feature phones; tablets; digital cameras; LCD TVs; mobile PCs; and desktop PCs. Smartphones are … Read more

Improving a time-sequential autostereoscopic 3D display

Hee-Jin Choi and his colleagues from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) have suggested a new method to show glasses-free 3D (autostereoscopic, or AS3D) on an LCD display. Existing AS3D displays effectively show two frames at once, offset from each other and with half the maximum resolution, to produce the 3D effect. Display … Read more

LDM Product Roundup: Volume 22 No 2

BenQ‘s MW665 and MX666 DLP projectors (Display Monitor Vol 2 No 22) have been enhanced with NFC functionality, which BenQ calls ‘tapNshow’. The new models (MW665+ and MX666+) are available worldwide now; price varies by country. A new Casio projector called the Core will be launched at BETT (21st – 24th January) in London this … Read more

Gefen Develops Shock Protection

Two new DVI-over-CAT-X products have been released by Gefen. The DVI ELR (Extra Long Range) Extender over One CAT-5 (EXT-DVI-1CAT5-ELR) can be used to transport DVI signals up to 150m, using HDBaseT technology. Video resolutions can reach 1920 x 1200 and a single CAT-5e or CAT-6 cable is used. The product’s ‘green’ operating mode can … Read more

MDM Product Roundup: Vol 22 No 2

Blackberry has announced a partnership with Boeing to produce an ultra-secure smartphone called the Boeing Black. The phone will only be sold to ‘approved’ customers, each of which will have to sign an agreement not to reveal details of the device to the public. Despite this, we know that the Boeing Black features dual SIM … Read more