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Automotive Displays – Navdy, a development stage startup firm, announced on August 5, 2014, that it is seeking to reinvigorate the market for aftermarket automotive heads up displays. Auto manufacturers have experimented with and offered various heads up displays in their cars. For example, General Motors introduced heads up displays in some Oldsmobile and Pontiac … Read more
2D-to-3D Conversion – On July 30th, ViewPoint-3D Ltd. (London, UK) introduced version 2.42 of their ViewPoint software. The program now supports real time autostereoscopic output to glasses-free 3D displays from RealCel, Alioscopy, Magnetic3D and Dimenco. For the first time users can create 2K and 4K 3D content instantly, with live data directly incorporated into 3D … Read more
Market Intelligence – PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has just published their latest research findings on the worldwide projector market. Total volume jumped to 2.2 million in the second calendar quarter of 2014 with sales of mainstream, high-end, and pico and personal projectors each registering double-digit year/year growth. Sales of mainstream … Read more
Megapixel Solutions – On August 4th, I had a chance to visit the PrimeView USA Inc. (New York, NY) showroom in New York. In addition to PrimeView, Orad Hi-Tec Systems Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel) was there and showing off its pixel processing power. PrimeView’s latest product is a 98” 4K LCD display with HDBaseT that … Read more
Broadcast & Distribution News arrived today in the Display Daily work zone of a development in professional video players (as we’re spread over around 8.5K kilometres, we can’t really talk about an office!). Zaxtar of the US, based in Silicon Valley and with an office in Japan, announced that it is able to support UltraHD … Read more
eBooks – German blog site, Lesen.net was told by Sony that the company is giving up the eBook market and that the current PRS-T4 will be the last product in its Sony Reader line. This follows on from decision to drop out of the US market in April 2014 and the closure of stores in … Read more
Projection – High-End Professional – Schools, colleges and universities can now get a super-size high resolution picture with the new Optoma EH200ST projector, just launched. Optoma’s Head of Product Marketing, Justin Halls, said: “Space is often an issue in classrooms and screens must be large enough for the whole class to see. The new EH200ST … Read more
Beyond HD – The Magnolia 4K LED display from SiliconCore has been certified by Crestron under their 4K certification program. The SiliconCore display has attracted a lot of attention with its high resolution (4K) and its fine pitch (1.5mm). Insight Media has written about it several times, most recently at InfoComm and earlier at NAB … Read more
Display Manufacturing and Materials – QD Vision was at Display Week to promote its quantum dot technology, Color IQ, but the more important announcements were made at Computex where new design wins with BOE and TPV were revealed (see video). QD Vision synthesizes their quantum dots as a solid that they package in an “optic” … Read more
Ostendo has been quietly working on a micro-LED display they call a Quantum Photonic Imager. This consists of red, green and blue LED with some near-collimating optical structures fabrication with extremely small pixel pitches – typically 5-10 microns (see video for details). This is essentially an LED microdisplay that can serve as the engine for … Read more
Mobile Displays – Plastic Logic was in the I-Zone at Display Week showing off its latest products and updating attendees on progress (see video). Plastic Logic make organic TFTs on flexible plastic substrates. Many think this is the type of solution tat will be necessary for flexible display in the future, especially flexible OLEDs. They … Read more
Mobile Displays – Sharp and Pixtronix are developing a MEMS display that acts like a pocket door to let red, green and blue light pass through for a very efficient mobile display. At Display Week 2014, Insight Media visited the Sharp booth, which featured a seven-inch Pixtronix prototype display, a joint venture between Qualcomm/Pixtronix and … Read more
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