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Primeview Covers Varying Brightness Levels

Primeview’s newest LED tiles are designed for indoor retail, broadcast, casino, corporate and control room applications. Each is rated for 24/7 use, with a 60Hz display rate. Each has a 5,000:1 contrast ratio and 160 deg viewing angles. They feature HDMI and DVI inputs. The Statement line (PRVLEDSML) is available in 1.6mm and 1.9mm pixel … Read more

Simulated 10-bit and Low Delta E: BenQ’s Prosumer Monitor

BenQ’s newest monitor is the SW2401PT, recently shown at Photokina in Germany, for high end amateur and professional photographers. There is an emphasis on colour fidelity, with a 14-bit lookup table and an IPS panel, supporting both 99% Adobe RGB and the sRGB colour gamuts. Hardware calibration means that changes to the image settings are … Read more

Slim Bezels and Colour Matching Bring Multi-Monitors to Eizo

Eizo’s new Flexscan monitors feature extremely slim (1mm) physical bezels on the sides and top. Both the EV2455 (24.1″) and EV2450 (23.8″) are designed to be used in multi-monitor setups where space is limited; they are less than 48mm thick. Although they have thin bezels, the internal screen border is 5.2mm and 4.3mm, respectively. The … Read more

ViewSonic Optimises 16:10 Monitors for Extended Use

Three new 16:10 displays have been added to ViewSonic’s monitor lineup. All three (24″ VG2438SM and VG2435SM and 22″ VG2235M) are designed for extended office and home use; they have a blue light filter and flicker-free backlight (we understand this to be based on DC dimming) and are adjustable. The stand enables a -5 deg … Read more

Squid Skin Research Leads to Tiny Pixel Display Technology

A full-colour display technology, based on the simulation of squid skin, has been developed by Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), in the USA. Squid skin is able to ‘see’ colours and blend into the background. LANP’s technology is based on work to create new materials with the same properties. “We know cephalopods have some … Read more

Kateeva Raises $38 Million in Series D Round

Kateeva, the US-based maker of the Yieldjet OLED printing system, says it has closed its Series D round with $38 million in financing. The newest participant was Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, joining existing investors which also contributed, including Sigma Partners, Spark Capital, Madrone Capital Partners, DBL Investors, New Science Ventures and VEECO Instruments, Inc. The … Read more

Sony Wants to be ‘Netflix of Gaming’

Sony wants to be ‘the Netflix of gaming’, chief executive of Sony’s game unit Andrew House has said. The company, which acquired cloud-gaming service Gaikai in 2012 (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 27), intends to develop a service to stream games to many devices – not just those made by Sony.

AMD Reveals Freesync Partners

Scaler vendors MStar, Novatek and Realtek have been named as being in a collaboration with AMD. The companies will build devices with DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync and Freesync by the end of the year. The aim of the scalers will be to complement new monitors being launched in Q1’15, which will support the technologies. Display Daily Comments … Read more

Flexible Device Work to be Discussed by Fraunhofer

Fraunhofer FEP will present the results of its works on flexible electronics at Plastic Electronics 2014 (7th-9th October in Grenoble, France). As well as displays, the institute has examined devices such as flexible lighting elements and circuit boards. A roll-to-roll process line is used by Fraunhofer FEP (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 20). The line … Read more