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It’s been a few months since we heard anything about Microsoft’s Illumiroom concept (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 4) – not since March, in fact (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 10). Illumiroom uses projectors to ‘extend’ game visuals beyond a TV and into a room. Microsoft Research has now released a video of ‘RoomAlive’, which … Read more
LG and Samsung are working on quantum dot TVs, claims Korea’s Digital Times. Both companies are working on products that may be released next year. Display Daily Comments Samsung could use a QD-LCD TV to compete with LG’s OLED models, at a lower price. However, a deal between Nanoco and ‘a major South Korean electronics … Read more
Siliconcore will launch a new high-resolution LED display at Infocomm MEA, running from the 13th-16th October in Dubai: the Lavender 1.2mm. With a viewing distance of less than 1m, the Lavender 1.2mm can show the equivalent of 1920 x 1080 resolution on a 110″ display. It uses Siliconcore’s common cathode technology.
Worldwide PC shipments reached 79.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014, a 0.5% decline from Q3 of last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. For the first time, the sum of the top five vendors’ share reached two-thirds of the worldwide PC shipments, as all of the top five showed stronger growth … Read more
The Beyond festival in Karlsruhe, Germany, is now in its third year. Running in early October (I attended on the show’s first day), it takes place in the Zentrum f
2014 marked our first attendance to the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (Plasa) show for several years – slightly marred by a terrible train service. Signal failures between Reading and Slough turned what should have been a nice smooth diagonal trip into a succession of time-consuming right angles! Unfortunately, the show itself had little to … Read more
NEC Display Solutions held its annual Display Trends Forum in Cannes this year. Now in its fifth year, the event brings around 100 of the company’s top distribution and VAR partners in EMEA together to look at trends, network and NEC’s latest products. Our Managing Editor, Bob Raikes, attended as a guest speaker, so we … Read more
AMD has chosen COO Lisa Su as the company’s new president and CEO to replace Rory Read, who has stepped down with immediate effect. Read will support the transition in an advisory role, remaining with the company through the end of 2014. Su joined AMD from Freescale Semiconductor in 2012 and earlier this year when … Read more
BenQ in Germany has appointed Andr
Faroudja Enterprises has announced that Bill Herz, an industry innovator in the fields of video, multimedia, visual computing and consumer electronics technology, has joined the company as COO and VP of business development. Prior to joining Faroudja Enterprises, Herz was a senior fellow and chief multimedia technologist at AMD, having previously led or been part … Read more
AOpen’s Datawall product line is a new addition to the company’s plug-and-play portfolio. A multi-display production and presentation system, the Datawall packages (DE67-HAI, DE6140, DE7200 and Engine Core) consist of computers/players and bundled software. According to AOpen, Datawall products are ‘endlessly’ expandable. They can be managed through AOpen’s networked Digital Engine computing devices and are … Read more
UK-based Display Solutions has a narrow high-brightness screen for use in public applications, such as signage, transport areas, exhibitions and vending. The SSF2845 also features shock and vibration resistance, and can be used in industrial environments. With a high brightness of 1,000 cd/m
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