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The Blackberry Passport is perhaps Blackberry’s least conventional device of recent years. With a 4.5″ square display (1440 x 1440, 453ppi) and physical keyboard, the Passport is a long way from the iPhone 6. It does have a Siri-like assistant, though (Blackberry Assistant), designed for professional use. Unlike rival systems, the Assistant supports text commands … Read more
19 companies and organisations were honoured with awards from the International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society last month. Masterimage 3D, Barco and Volfoni were both among the award winners, for ‘Advancing the Entertainment Industry through Technology’. Masterimage won the Society’s Lumiere statuette for its high-brightness Horizon3D digital cinema system (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 41); … Read more
To celebrate its 25th anniversary (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 35), the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) is releasing an Awards Yearbook. The special edition book will feature all the successful winners and commended projects from the 2014 awards, as well as ‘a variety’ of the other entries submitted this year. Available this … Read more
David Stump will present an overview from his book, Digital Cinematography — Fundamentals, Tools, Techniques, and Workflows at the Canon Hollywood Center on 23rd October. Stump will focus on the tools and technology of the trade. There will also be a demonstration, by Canon, on ‘Monitoring for 4K’. Interested participants should email [email protected], with the … Read more
After being shortlisted for the AV Awards (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 31), Digital Projection has picked up the ‘Specialist Projector of the Year’ (5,000+ lumens) prize.
TP Vision is inviting its reseller partners in the DACH countries to training days, between 13th and 17th October. The subjects of Android and UltraHD are the main focus, but curved TVs and Ambilight will also be discussed. The training will be held in Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Dortmund, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and … Read more
The HbbTV Association and the French HD Forum are running the HbbTV Symposium: Europe 2014, from 8th – 9th October. HbbTV developments, across a range of topics, will be discussed at the Espace Landowski in Paris.
Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke are former Eastman Kodak employees, commonly credited with the invention of the OLED. They have been named by Thomson Reuters as two of this year’s 26 Citation Laureates, for their part in the technology’s development. The list of Citation Laureates has successfully forecast 35 Nobel Prize winners since 2002.
Multiple Hitachi projectors have been installed by the City College of San Francisco. Although the main model installed has been the CP-AW312WN, Hitachi’s CP-WX8255, CP-WX8240 and CP-X3030WN models are also being used around the campus. Eventually, the College aims to install projectors in every classroom.
Barco confirmed this week that it has reached an agreement with US-based aerospace and defence group Esterline Corporation to sell its Defence & Aerospace division. The sale, which covers both shares and assets, is valued at
Changhong Electric, the last significant manufacturer of plasma display panels for TV use, continued to halt trading in its stock this week, leading to speculation that the company may finally have decided to end PDP production. The company suspended training on the Shanghai Bourse on 15th September and in a regulatory filing last weekend said … Read more
Huawei is to invest
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