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Announced at the recent Oculus Connect developer conference, ‘Crescent Bay’ is Oculus VR’s newest prototype headset. While the focus appears to be on audio (the unit features built-in removable headphones and custom audio software), Crescent Bay also has ‘new display technology’ and 360 deg head tracking. What the new display actually is, is unclear but … Read more
This week we are highlighting Public Displays in the 40″ and 42″ Full HD LCD category with 1920 x 1080 resolution. There are 10 brands featured in the advertising. Samsung is at the top of the PageShare for the combined three major countries, NEC Displays is second and LG is third. The ranking is the … Read more
This week, I’ve been back in the office and starting to catch up with some of the things that I should have been doing when I was away. I managed to get the IBC report done and the Munich Digital Signage conference report is nearly ready for next week – we’re waiting for some info … Read more
This year, the organisers said that attendance at IBC was ahead of last year’s but a couple of people said to me that there seemed to be “less of a buzz” this year. Nevertheless, it was an interesting show. UltraHD has clearly got enough impetus to work its way through the production chain. All the … Read more
Taking place at Ascot Racecourse, Midwich’s Technology Exposed is not comparable to IFA or IBC, with which it shares a show month – but is aimed at an entirely different audience. The main attendees of Technology Exposed are trade resellers who often haven’t attended the larger European shows, so the products aren’t necessarily new to … Read more
A great feature of IBC is the “Big Screen Experience”. This year, the focus was on Christie’s 6P laser projection which was showing full brightness, 14 foot lamberts (or 48 cd/m
Sunday morning kicked off with Professor Brian Cox, star of the BBC’s science coverage giving a keynote talk. He was introduced by Ray Snoddy, the moderator as “David Attenborough’s successor”, a position he was nominated for by David Attenborough, a BBC icon, himself. Cox said that Carl Sagan’s Cosmos TV programme was the spark for … Read more
Jorgen Abildgaard of AG Neovo showed us a new double-sided signage display that has just been launched. It is currently available in a 55″ size, with a 46″ to follow later in the year. Using a totem form factor, the unit has two interchangeable screens: one with 450 cd/m
Access was showing its latest middleware and browser technology. The browser continues to be developed for TV use and also for auto applications and an announcement at the show was that the browser is now being integrated with Zenterio middleware. The company told us that it has two versions of the browser, the original one … Read more
The PU9730 is BenQ’s first projector with interchangeable lenses. To provide customers with more choice, the unit has seven different lens options, with throw ratios ranging from 0.75:1 to 8.67:1. So that customers are not locked into a single ecosystem, lenses for 1DLP projectors from Panasonic and NEC will also work. Lenses can be swapped … Read more
We have been reporting on Active Video Networks (they don’t like to use AVN as it also stands for “Adult Video News, the “trade news” for the US porn industry!) since we met with the company in January 2010 in the Hilton at CES. The company has a cloud-based approach to services for TV services … Read more
AMD was showing how its professional graphics boards can support UltraHD and the firm was demonstrating the FirePro W9100 GPU card running dual Dell 3840 x 2160 displays, although up to three can be supported at up to 60Hz. There was also a demonstration of a dual AJA board system that was being used to … Read more
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