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CQ Laser Technologies Moves Green Laser Production to China

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Display Materials, Manufacturing and Components -Green lasers are a key element for all-laser based displays and other markets. In a recent visit with CQ Laser Technologies, we have learned that they have now transferred production of their green laser to China, where customers will soon be using them in projection displays. The technology behind the … Read more

Christie Announces Move into Home Entertainment Market at CEDIA 2014

Large Displays, Projection – As a first time exhibitor at CEDIA Expo 2014 Christie Digital Systems announced its intent to enter the home entertainment market with its line of audio and display products. Christie is well known for the firm’s background in digital cinema as well as large and small venue display applications. The firm … Read more

Expanded Color Gamuts and Video Encoding

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Broadcast and Distribution – Think of this as “Part 2” of my last Display Daily on September 10th, where I discussed Canon and its upcoming support for ITU-R BT.2020. In that DD, I said, “lamps, LEDs and laser/phosphor systems simply cannot make the full [BT.2020] color gamut”. Nanosys believes that by adjusting the blue filter … Read more

CEDIA Expo 2014 Overview

Large Displays, Projection – The 2014 edition of CEDIA Expo held September 10-13 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver CO, USA was a good example of the manner in which consumer electronics products and systems are evolving in new and sophisticated ways. CEDIA, the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association, is focused on the … Read more

Barco Escape, a New Multi-Screen Theatrical Format, to Debut September 19

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Digital Cinema – At CinemaCon last March in Las Vegas, Barco debuted a new theatrical concept that featured three screens in the theater – a main screen and two side screens. The idea was to offer a more immersive experience, which they showed with some compelling content. Now, Barco Escape is ready to roll out … Read more

Microsoft Perceptive Pixel on the Move

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PPI Perceptive Pixel Display July 2012 shown running Win8, Source: AllthingsD.com Emerging Technology – Down Australia way it’s the end of a long winter and coming into spring, a fitting place for news of a resurgence of the somewhat dormant Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI) now owned by Microsoft (MS.) There we heard the recent revelation … Read more

IMID by the Numbers

EXCO waits for IMID 2014 to begin. (Photo: Ken Werner)

Technology – The Korean Information Display Society’s International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) has been held each year since 2001, mostly in Daegu, South Korea — a large commercial city known, a tour guide said, for apples, beautiful women and being the place where Samsung got its start. The venue this year, as it has … Read more