French company Dreamvision (11.C85) has announced a new series of projectors with higher brightness, UltraHD resolution and HDR capabilities. They will be known as the Siglos series (Siglos+1, Siglos+2 and Siglos+3). The projectors reach up to 1,900 lumens (+2 model); around 40% higher than Dreamvision’s current projectors. The +1 and +3 units reach 1,700 and 1,800 lumens, respectively.
All three projectors feature HDMI 2.0a ports, capable of transferring content at 18Gbps. Dreamvision also claims compatibility with all upcoming UltraHD consumer video content, such as UltraHD Blu-ray. The company says that content can be shown at 4k60 and 4:4:4. The +2 and +3 models cover part of the DCI-P3 colour gamut.
Hitachi (1.F70) will display new installation projectors, unveiling a family of LED phosphor models in Europe for the first time. The LP-WU3500 and LP-WX3500 will be available from July. They ‘target’ 3,500 lumens and use Philips’ HLD technology.
Another new product will be Hitachi’s laser projector, the LP-WU9750. It has 1920 x 1200 resolution and reaches 8,000 lumens of brightness.
A new matrix switch for UltraHD, 60fps video transfer will be shown by Muxlab (1.N190), for multi-room distribution. The Multimedia 16 x 16 Matrix Switch (500480) is housed in a modular chassis, with four connections per card. Input/output cards feature both HDMI and HDBaseT (Class A or B).
The HDMI cards are HDMI 2.0-compliant, enabling 18Gbps of data transfer for 4K60 4:4:4; the HDBaseT cards enable 4K60 4:2:0 pass-through. Maximum transmission distance is 70m (1080p) or 40m (UltraHD) with Class B, or 100m (1080p) or 70m (UltraHD) with Class A. A front HDMI port is featured for monitoring.
The switch uses PoE technology and has a 7″ touch LCD display for local control. A dual redundant power supply is also fitted.
NEC‘s PX803UL DLP laser projector (NEC Maintains Constant Brightness) will be shown at ISE, on stand 4.R24.
SiliconCore showed 1.2, 1.5 and 1.9mm LED products at ISE 2015SiliconCore (10.K110) will demonstrate its smallest pixel pitch display ever: a 0.95mm prototype, reaching UltraHD resolution at 165″. Optimum viewing can be experienced from less than 1m, and the display can reach 2,000 lumens of brightness.
The common cathode architecture that SiliconCore uses is credited with enabling the development.
A demonstration of Mersive’s Solstice software will be hosted by ViewSonic (9.A129), which can be used to share content from any device, including tablets and smartphones, to a ViewSonic screen over WiFi or LAN. It will work with Windows, iOS or Android.
An 84″ 10-point touch display, the CDE8452-TL, will be used in the demonstration. 43″ and 48″ LCD displays (CDE4302 and CDE4803) will also be shown, alongside the CDE5500-L, CDE6560T and CDE5560T. Smaller units will be used to showcase other applications: the VSD242, VSD224 and TD2420.
In projectors, ViewSonic will show two home cinema models (Pro7822HD and Pro8800WU) as well as, for the first time, a laser model with 1920 x 1080 resolution.
ViewSonic will also show a network media player (NMP580W), with Android 4.4. It will have 8GB of storage and connections for HDMI (in and out), VGA, US (x3), RS232, RJ45 and micro-SD, as well as WiFi. A wireless gateway (WPG400) will also be shown; this can be used to stream HD content from small screens to large displays, wirelessly.
