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Professional Cameras Starting to Support Video Streaming Over CAT 5/6 Cable

Content Creation – At a recent SMPTE New York Chapter meeting, three professional camera manufactures talked about their recent introductions from IBC: Sony, JVC and Panasonic (see full coverage here: part 1, part 2, part 3). All support output over SDI and HDMI connectors, but outputting the content over a CAT 5/6 cable is in … Read more

Apple Pay and Current C – The Fight is ON

Wearables – Wearables are the highlight of the consumer electronics industry this year, with many believing that the release of the Apple Watch will further the consumer’s interest in these products. The next step is to figure out what these devices will be used for. One of the key uses that Apple is proposing is … Read more

Kyocera Proteus: a “Wearable and Collapsible Smartphone”

Smartphones – It is easy to become fascinated by some of the high tech product concepts seen at exhibitions. The best of these are a blend of highly creative industrial design and technology that is at, or even just a bit beyond, the state of the art. In the world of displays, perhaps the most … Read more

No Sapphire on Apple iPhones?

Mobile Display – Since Apple’s sapphire cover glass supplier GT Advanced Technologies went into administration, discussion of the the ultra-hard cover glass technology has been pushed to the forefront of the business news world. Comparing the specifications that sapphire delivers with other cover glass, such as Corning’s Gorilla Glass and its variants, and it becomes … Read more

LGD Claims 0.7mm Narrow Bezel Mobile Display

Mobile Display -LG Display said it will launch a new 0.7mm narrow bezel mobile display that boasts full HD (FHD) and with a bezel less than the thickness of a credit card it is targeting the smartphone market with its latest 5.3″ premium display. To achieve this, the company has developed what it calls Neo … Read more

UHD-TV Is Becoming Mainstream – And Fast

4K – After Aldo Cugnini incisively dissected the question of what the 4K in 4K-TV actually means, you may have thought Display Daily was done with UHD-TV articles – at least for this week. Sorry. No such luck. UHD-TV remains in the news, in part because it is becoming mainstream much more quickly than most … Read more

Is 4K Ultra HD Content needed to Drive UHD TV Sales?

4K – 4K Ultra HD TVs, as the CEA suggests calling the new TV sets, are aimed at increasing TV sales in consumer electronics markets around the world. As my colleague Aldo has explained, there is nothing straight forward about this new technology, including how we describe these new TVs. While market penetration starts to … Read more

Future Augmented Reality for Medical Verticals

Augmented Reality – We have talked before about applications for augmented reality in vertical markets as a potential first step into market entry. As a matter of fact, most smaller early developers of augmented reality headsets have placed most of their product focus on commercial applications. One of these vertical applications is the medical field. … Read more

There’s Innovation in the Monitor Market

Monitors – The LCD monitor market is in an interesting phase at the moment. The research division of Meko Ltd, the publisher of Display Daily, has been tracking monitor shipments in Europe for nearly 15 years. Things have changed a bit since we started. When we started, we tracked 15″, 17″, 19″ and 20″/21″ CRT … Read more

Apple Home Kit Links to Apple TV

Business and Strategic: In case you missed it, Apple’s TV strategy became a bit clearer this month with the launch of its Developers’ Beta 2 version of iOS 8.1, (build 128407) as the company is now including the Apple Home Kit and targets the AppleTV as the “HomeKit hub”, (at least now as a testing … Read more

Hiperwall Demonstrates Latest Software

Pixel Processing & Control – At the NEC Showcase in New York on October 23rd, NEC partner Hiperwall Inc. (Irvine, CA) showed off its latest display control software. Hiperwall has a software solution for the control and coordination of multiple displays. Jeff Greenberg, CEO of Hiperwall, gave a seminar on the company’s products and gave … Read more

Is a Coax 4K Solution Dead on Arrival in Broadcast?

Broadcast & Distribution – That’s a question that Stephen Lampen, Belden Multimedia Technology Manager/Product Line Manager for Entertainment Products, is very concerned about. At the recent SMPTE Conference, he asked the audience during a presentation if anyone would install coax cabling in broadcast facilities going forward. No one raised their hands. He thinks that means … Read more