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Taiwan’s Posiflex manufactures point-of-sale (PoS) devices, and has expanded its range with a new tablet: the MT-4008W. Available in two packages, for retail and hospitality, the 7.85″ tablet can be used with a pistol grip (retail) or hand strap (hospitality). Both packages also feature a touch pen (although 10-point finger touch is supported); the retail … Read more
Four of BenQ’s W1080ST DLP projectors are being used in the ‘Apophany’ art installation in Brooklyn, New York. Designed by artist and filmmaker Carmen Osterlye, the video exhibit will run until the 18th November. Osterlye said, “I’m turning to BenQ’s projectors once again this year for their short-throw capabilities and ability to authentically recreate my … Read more
Barco has supplied digital cinema projectors to the Cineplanet chain’s 200+ locations across Latin America. Local distributor and integrator Bardan Cinema assisted with the rollout. A variety of projectors were used, from the DP2K-10SX for smaller auditoriums to the DP4K-32B for the largest cinemas.
Engage Productions’ Flux Innovation Lounge in London will host new products from LG at an event on 6th November. As well as a videowall made of nine 55″ LCD displays – with an IR touch overlay – an individual 84″ UltraHD screen with touch will be demonstrated. Finally, visitors will be able to see three … Read more
Magnachip Semiconductor has announced that it is supplying LG Display with display panel driver integrated circuits for UltraHD TVs.
USA Drive-Ins has chosen to exclusively use NEC projectors at its new drive-in cinema locations. NEC’s NC3200S and NC3240S projectors will be used in both the ‘traditional’ locations, set for completion next year, and ‘pop-up’ drive-ins.
The European Commission’s antitrust authorities have approved Dolby Laboratories’ proposed acquisition of Doremi Labs. The two companies signed a definitive agreement in February under the terms of which Dolby would acquire Doremi for $92.5 million in cash, plus an additional $20 million contingency that could be earned over a four-year period (Display Monitor Vol 21 … Read more
Significant acquisition deals in the USA have been put on hold by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The organisation has stopped its 180-day review schedules for the mergers of AT&T and DirecTV, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable, citing concerns about transparency. The deals between the merging companies and content providers, such as CBS and … Read more
This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 22″ Full HD category, which includes sizes from 21.5″ to 22.9″ with resolution of 1920 x 1080. There are 15 brands featured in the advertising with Samsung, Iiyama and LG the top three advertised brands over the three countries. In France, Iiyama leads followed by Samsung … Read more
Hmm… I’m having one of those mornings. I got up extra early as I knew I had a lot to do. After sorting out some web shop issues, in moving too fast through the dialogues, I mistakenly clicked on a “do you want to upgrade your version of software” dialogue, forgetting that this component is … Read more
Canon was exhibiting at the SMPTE Fall Conference where it was highlighting its ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) workflow for 4K content. This was partly used to highlight the capabilities of its DP-V3010 4K LCD reference monitor
Colorfront (Budapest, Hungary) provides some of the most powerful content creation and transcoding tools in the industry serving both cinema as well as TV production. At the SMPTE Fall Conference, we had a chance to sit down with CTO Bill Feightner to learn more. Feightner is a well recognized expert on color science and he … Read more
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