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Cooler Screens, the world’s first and largest in-store digital media platform, announced the close of an over $80 million Series C funding round from Verizon Ventures, Microsoft’s venture fund M12, GreatPoint Ventures, and a number of other preeminent strategic and financial investors to drive company growth and national expansion. Silicon Valley Bank also participated in … Read more
What They Say Dave Haynes of the Sixteen-Nine blog & podcast site is carrying out a survey to create a free to view report on the direct LED market. He is looking for contributors in the industry or from end users. You can access the survey here. What We Think There is a lot of … Read more
What They Say Samsung recently announced its new UST projector. It has now confirmed that it uses direct lasers and claims to be able to support 106% of the Rec 2020 colour gamut and have 2800 ANSI lumens of output. What We Think Up to now, although direct laser has been available in cinema projectors, … Read more
What They Say A Chinese sex toy designed to be a ‘smart male chastity device’ has become vulnerable to a hack that would lock all devices. “The internet-linked sheath has no manual override, so owners might have been faced with the prospect of having to use a grinder or bolt cutter to free themselves from … Read more
Two news stories crossed my desk recently that perfectly illustrate the old saw “One Man’s Gain Is Another’s Man’s Loss”. The first was a summary in Media Play News of a report from Digital TV Research (UK) on the state of Streaming Video on Demand (SVOD) subscriptions. According to Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital … Read more
Aledia, a French startup that is pioneering a disruptive technology for microLED displays, has closed an €80M first tranche of its €120M D-round financing. The company will use the proceeds to complete its product development and create the first-of-its-kind, high-volume 3D microLED manufacturing facility in the Grenoble area for an estimated capex of €40 million … Read more
Display specialist AOC announces a new portable touchscreen monitor with USB-C connectivity. The 39.6 cm (15.6″) IPS display 16T2 comes with Full HD resolution and can be connected to a laptop, desktop/server or a smartphone through its two USB-C ports (utilising DisplayPort alternate mode) or its Micro HDMI port. Thanks to the built-in 8000 mAh … Read more
What They Say Digitimes reported that Lextar is the supplier of miniLED backlight units for new Xiaomi TVs and gave some technical details on the configuration. The 4K/8K 82″ sets are said to have: 15,360 mini LEDs based on POB (package on board) design enabling 960 local dimming zones, 4,096 shades of grey, ultra-high contrast … Read more
New displays and meeting systems from Dell Technologies help creatives and office professionals work productively and comfortably in hybrid work environments. According to IDC research, 81% of employees believe monitors with higher resolution, better ergonomics and color improve the overall working experience1. This expanded UltraSharp portfolio features state-of-the art technology, including mini-LED, built-in colorimeter and … Read more
What They Say Dell has announced new monitors including a new UltraSharp 32 HDR PremierColor Monitor (UP3221Q) which has a miniLED backlight with 2K dimming zones, 99.8% of DCI P3 colour gamut and support for VESA’s DisplayHDR 1000 label scheme. It has an integrated Calman Powered colorimiter. It will sell for $5,000 from November 5th. … Read more
Lextar Electronics Corp., a leader in Opto-Semiconductor solutions and X Display Company (XDC), a leader in MicroLED displays, announced that the companies entered into agreements, including Development and License Agreement and Services Agreement wherein Lextar has licensed XDC’s Intellectual Property, and both Lextar’s and XDC’s customers will be supplied Lextar’s high-performance MicroLEDs. “We are pleased … Read more
NEC Display Solutions and BrightSign, LLC® have collaborated to deliver a family of large format displays with integrated digital signage capabilities. The full range of NEC MultiSync V Series large format displays are now available with the BrightSign OPS digital signage media player included. “As businesses emerge from the pandemic, digital signage plays a key … Read more
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