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Seamlessly Upgrade to RGB Laser and Boost Your 24/7 Video Wall Image-quality and TCO for Another 10+ Years

Barco, a global leader in large video walls, announces the launch of its latest generation RGB Laser video wall upgrade program. This allows customers owning a Barco lamp- or LED-illuminated, rear-projection cube video wall to upgrade to the latest RGB Laser technology. The benefits include many years of additional service (more than 10 years in … Read more

DisplayLink Quad-Display Docking Station from Targus Wins CES 2019 Innovation Award

DisplayLink, the leading provider of USB graphics and Wireless VR technology, joined Targus to announce the new Targus DOCK520USZ Universal Docking Station – the world’s first dock to support four extended HD displays – has been honored with a CES 2019 Innovation Award in the Computer Peripherals category. The DOCK520USZ utilises DisplayLink’s DL-3950 chip technology … Read more

Deepfakes: Can They Fool All of the People, All the Time?

Ever hear the term “Deepfakes” before? Unless you are a fan of on-line celebrity pornography, the answer is likely to be no. The term derives from an anonymous Reddit user who used the pseudonym “Deepfakes” when he posted several porn videos on the Internet in the fall of 2017. I discussed versions of the problem, … Read more

Stephan Heimbecher Joins Imagine Communications from Sky Deutschland

Imagine Communications has appointed Stephan Heimbecher as its new international director of consulting services, based out of Munich, Germany. Heimbecher joins Imagine Communications from Sky Deutschland, where he spent the last 16 years at the helm of innovation and standards for the German media company. In his new role at Imagine Communications, Heimbecher will lead … Read more

Mirrorcle Laser-cuts Ribbon On Cleanroom Facility For Volume MEMS Mirror Production

In a ribbon cutting ceremony Mirrorcle Technologies inaugurated its new cleanroom space at the company’s Richmond, CA headquarters. Reflecting the company’s core competency of reliable optical beam-steering, the ribbon was cut by one of company’s latest products – a laser beam Scan Module which features a powerful 1W, blue (450nm) laser that was developed for … Read more

Allview Enters the Android Smart TV Market

After entering the TV market in October, the Romanian brand Allview announces the signing of the contract with Google to launch its own brand of Android smart TVs. Closing the deal is a recognition from Google for Allview in terms of the capacity that the local brand demonstrated in Android integration on several product types. … Read more

EduCause 2018 Round Up

EduCause, the higher-ed conference held in Denver last month, had a lot to offer the post-secondary education ed-tech crowd. Beyond the ever-present IT / Security / Infrastructure / HelpDesk / Cloud mantras, many display-related themes were also prominent in both the conference sessions and the exhibit hall. Here is an overview of these themes: The … Read more

Immersive Display Solutions, Inc. Selects Barco F70 for its Latest Advanced Dome Display Project

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Immersive Display Solutions, Inc. (IDSI) announced that it has selected the Barco F70 for its latest advanced dome display project. Using thirteen F70-4K6 projectors per dome and featuring the powerful Barco Pulse electronics processing platform and unique Single Step Processing (SSP) pixel-shifting technology, the integrated solution from IDSI will support high-performance fast jet pilot training. … Read more

Pay TV and SVOD in Europe on the up, TV Viewing and Blu-ray Slump

The Strasbourg-based Observatory, part of the Council of Europe, has just launched this year’s Yearbook 2018/2019 on line service. This database provides comparative European data on film, television, on-demand and physical video in 41 countries. The country by country comparative pan-European tables are downloadable in Excel form. Downloadable country profiles are also included. Main insights … Read more

E Ink Hits Capacity on Strong ESL Market Demand

In case you missed it, a recent report from E Ink Holdings (EIH) confirms that capacity at its Northern Taiwan fab in Linkou, is fully booked, primarily from the growing demand in the electronic shelf label (ESL) market. This is forcing the company to look to the USA fab to help augment the supply of … Read more