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Baanto Applies Shadowsense to Aviation

by Tom Allen

Baanto has signed an agreement to develop Shadowsense-powered touchscreens for L-3 Display Systems’ military and commercial aircraft displays. Existing displays will be adapted for avionics use. They will feature five touch points, palm/false touch …

Tags:Avionics| Baanto| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 46

LG Promotes OLED With Massive Video Wall

by Tom Allen

The world’s largest OLED display – actually a video wall, but still very impressive – has been installed in Incheon International Airport in Seoul. LG supplied 140 55″ screens for the curved wall, which …

Tags:Back Panel| Korea| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Acer Scores CES Wins

by Tom Allen

Acer has been named as a CES 2016 Innovation Award Honoree. The three winning products are the Predator 8 gaming tablet; Predator Z850 gaming projector; and Revo Build modular PC.

Tags:Acer| Awards| Back Panel| CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Valve Relies on Marvell Components

by Tom Allen

Marvell has announced that its Armada 1500 Mini SoC, Avastar 88W8897 11ac WiFi and BlueTooth chip and power management ICs are all being used in Valve’s Steam Link system. Steam Link is a wireless …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Marvell| Mobile Display Monitor| Steam Consoles| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Eyevis Keeps Lights on in Tanzania

by Tom Allen

Eyevis is working with Tanesco (the Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited), creating two video walls for the company’s new control centre in Dar es Salaam. Each wall is capable of running 24/7 and is …

Tags:Back Panel| Control Rooms| Eyevis| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Multimedia Polska Chooses Cubiware

by Tom Allen

Multimedia Polska has chosen to use Cubiware (a subsidiary of TiVo)’s CubiTV hybrid middleware, for delivery of DVB via STBs and a portal server across Poland. The Cubiware STBs will enable HD video and …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Poland| STBs| Tivo| Vol 22 - Issue 46

LG Gets Into Holiday Spirit

by Tom Allen

LG is celebrating the Christmas season with a six-week installation in New York’s Grand Central Terminal. As the official sponsor of the 2015 Holiday Fair in the station, LG will show its TVs every …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Vtron to Show Hybrid Video Wall at ISE

by Tom Allen

Control room and video wall specialist Vtron will show its new ‘hybrid’ display wall system at ISE 2016. The product combines Digicom’s ARK3000 and IP-based CLINK 1000 processors, with Vtron’s VIS video wall control …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Large Display Monitor| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 46

OLED Thrashes Plasma in Display Shootout

by Tom Allen

HDTVTest, Leeds Trinity University and UK retailer Crampton and Moore ran a public display shootout in the UK recently. Two OLED TVs (Panasonic’s CZ950 and LG’s EF9500) were compared to Panasonic’s last (and widely …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| PDP| Testing| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Samsung’s Video Shows AMOLED Advantages

by Tom Allen

Samsung Display has released a fun video, highlighting the benefits of AMOLED technology on a smartphone compared to LCD. Watch it at http://tinyurl.com/q44jbg9. Analyst Comment I was surprised (but pleased) to see the video …

Tags:AMOLED| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Submissions Being Accepted for Tom’s Guide CES Awards

by Tom Allen

The editors of Tom’s Guide and Laptop Mag are inviting submissions for their own 2016 CES awards. Product categories include laptops, hybrids, smartphones, TVs, VR & AR, wearables, tablets and PCs. Submissions can be …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 46

DPI Scores CEDIA Award

by Tom Allen

Digital Projection’s Insight 4k Dual-LED projector won ‘Best New Product’ at CEDIA 2015, the company has announced. The projector was chosen by a panel of home technology professionals. (Digital Projection Wows CEDIA with Insight …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| CEDIA 2015| Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 46