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Augmented Reality – The Vuzix Smartglasses M100 have been around for quite some time and have been used in various industry applications. While the smartglasses have been available to the public directly from Vuzix, the company had no marketing plan to create more sales. However, this has now changed, with Vuzix announcing that it is … Read more
Home Entertainment – M-Go, Amazon and DirecTV are all in the news with new 4K-UHD delivery services that are rolling out now or shortly. Last week, we reported that DirecTV was getting ready to roll out 4K-UHD delivery using it satellites and Genie HD-DVR set top box. But it must be connected to a 4K-ready … Read more
ipadusaTablets – The Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey will soon feature iPads in United Airline’s Terminal C. This is United’s main terminal at the Newark Airport and is a critical hub for United, a launching point for many of the airline’s transatlantic flights. The update will cost $120 million and will see every … Read more
Personal Eyewear – Since 2012, Display Central has published roughly 60 articles that discuss the Oculus Rift. I’ve reviewed most of them and not one of them mentions the terrible image quality produced by the head mounted virtual reality (VR) system. A more common type of headline is “Oculus Rift at SXSW: Is Virtual Reality … Read more
Camera/Camcorders – I had a chance to visit several manufacturers of 4K cameras at the recent CCW 2014 (Content and Communications World) in New York November 12 – 13 and get updates on cameras I had written about before, after the presentation for SMPTE. The JVC representative said the GY-LS300 camera, a compact 4k camera … Read more
Display Metrology – A new display color accuracy metric was developed by DisplayMate and used by the lab, to help identify the mobile display panel with absolute color accuracy. The lab made famous by its Industry Display Shoot-Outs, tested AMOLED and LCD display panels from a field of the Top Six Mobile Display Devices and … Read more
Mobile Display – Once again Samsung OLED display panel struts its stuff claiming the top Display Color Accuracy prize in the latest shoot-out data from Dr. Ray Soneira’s DisplayMate labs. Soneira announced: “The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is the winner in Absolute Color Accuracy, coming in first place in all categories in its Basic Screen … Read more
Broadcast & Distribution – At CCW (Content and Communications World), we had a chance to take a more careful look at Adder’s KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) extension solutions. KVM extension is needed when computers or servers are located in one location and the keyboard, mouse and monitor are located somewhere else. For example, edit … Read more
Ever since Apple used the marketing moniker, “Retina Display”, the mobile device and display industry has been asking itself: how far will this resolution arms race go? How high do we need to go before we truly can say that the display meets or exceeds the true limits of the Human Vision System? Apple claimed … Read more
Acer saw sales for October drop 9.25% sequentially to NT$28.2 billion ($921.6 million), though this was slightly higher year on year. Sales for the period from January to October were 9.5% lower than the same period of 2013 at NT$272.4 billion ($8.9 billion). The company has also released its third quarter results, recording its third … Read more
A total 22.5 million large panels were shipped in October from Taiwan’s four major panel manufacturers. This was just under 1% lower than the previous month but represented a year on year improvement of 14.4%. The total number of large panels shipped so far this year from Taiwan reached 217.4 million, a 1.7% increase from … Read more
Broadcast & Distribution – Quantel has a nice presence in the sports broadcasting segment where its Enterprise sQ servers are used to store live video feeds on a frame by frame basis. This allows for instant editing. And, since these servers are networked over fiber Ethernet connections, editing can be done in one location, content … Read more
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