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Christie Digital used I/ITSEC 2014 to introduce its new laser-phosphor projectors to the training and simulation community. The DWU555-GS is a solid-state, 1-chip DLP laser-phosphor projector with 5,400 ANSI lumens and WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution. With no lamp to replace, the lifetime of the light source is rated at 20K hours – a major … Read more
Digital Projection had a few good nuggets of info at I/ITSEC 2014 including a first time demo of its LED projector that adds an IR LED for NVG use. The IR images are input on the red channel, but how the IR LED is switched in, was not revealed at the show. Digital Projection has … Read more
Ortus, of Japan, began in 2010 as a joint venture between Toppan and Casio. It has its own sunlight-readable display technology, Blanview, which is a type of transflective LCD. These displays are created by combining an amorphous silicon TFT panel, with high transmittance, with a design that reflects a high degree of external light. Several … Read more
M-Go, Amazon and DirecTV are all in the news with new 4K-UHD delivery services that are rolling out now or shortly in the US. 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 (LDM Vol 21 No 45) . But it … Read more
While our previous coverage of Osram at Electronica has focused on the company’s backlighting technology, we found more to discuss this year. The company had a large stand at the front of hall A3 (the dedicated displays area), which literally glowed! In one corner of the booth we saw a new LED for display boards. … Read more
Tianma’s stand was divided between new technologies, automotive displays and point-of-sale/medical/industrial units. We began with the automotive models. Several displays are available now. Two of these are passive monochrome LCD screens; they are called EBN (enhanced black nematic) and W-EBN (wide-EBN). These have 1,000:1 and 800:1 contrast ratios are intended for use in vehicle clusters. … Read more
An Internet-of-Things gateway with Intel’s Quark technology was on show by Aaeon. The AIOT-X1000 was announced at Computex earlier this year. It runs on an SoC with a 32-bit single-core, single-thread Pentium instruction set architecture-compatible CPU. This device operates at speeds up to 400MHz. Hermann Holz of Aditech talked about the difference in TN and … Read more
Accell’s new interface hubs support DisplayPort’s multi-stream transport (MST) enabling independent monitor control and the support of high-resolution graphics. The UltraAV DisplayPort 1.2 to 2 DisplayPort Multi-Display MST Hub and Mini DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Display MST Hub support resolutions up to UltraHD at 30Hz in MST mode. For a higher frame rate (60Hz), resolution is cut … Read more
Acer’s C720 Chromebook and Acer Travelmate B113 laptop have won two Awards of Excellence from Tech & Learning. The company was the only PC maker to win awards in the New Product category this year.
Acer has promoted Jerry Kao to president of the company’s notebook business group. He currently serves as general manager of the group, which he co-heads with Jackson Lin, president.
Directly competing with Asus’ PG278Q (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3), Acer has announced the 27″ XB270HU. It is a gaming monitor that is almost identical to Asus’ model, appearing to use the same AUO panel – or at least a very similar version. Featuring Nvidia’s G-Sync technology, the XB270HU is free of screen tearing … Read more
Acer launched the Aspire V Black Edition gaming laptop earlier this year, and has waited very little time before refreshing it with an UltraHD screen. The new Aspire V Nitro Black Edition features a 15.6″ display, Core i7 Haswell CPU (i7-4710HQ) and discrete (Geforce 860M) graphics. CNet notes that that 860M is not perfectly suited … Read more
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