Infocomm 2015 – Page 4 – Display Daily

Panasonic Starts with Smart Signage

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic used its direct led to advertise its projectorsPanasonic was highlighting, as it started to say at ISE, that its ‘open’ (that is, open to third party software vendors) platform that is based on …

Leyard Pushing Small Pitch LED

by Bob Raikes

Leyard is one of the top makers of small pitch LEDs in China and impressed us at ISE. At Infocomm, it was showing solutions in 1.2mm, 1.6mm, 1.9mm and 2.5mm. It had put together …

PowerTechnology offers RGB Laser Solution for Cinema Retrofits

by Chris Chinnock

At Infocomm we were surprised to find a company selling RGB laser systems that it is marketing to cinema exhibitors to replace Xenon light sources. Four rack-mounted solutions, branded Illumina Cinema Laser System, are …

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Vivitek Working on LP Projector

by Chris Chinnock

Vivitek, which is the projector brand company for Delta Electronics, was at Infocomm to showcase its products. No new products were announced, however. Vivitek is currently an all-lamp projector house, but it is working …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vivitek| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Wowza Announces Video Streaming from the Cloud as a Service

by Norbert Hildebrand

Wowza provides a video streaming engine for content creators and announced the new 4.2 release at InfoComm. The software allows for video streaming up to 4k. The streaming engine transcodes , prepares and delivers …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Media Servers| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 26

AVB to Become Time Sensitive Network (TSN)

by Chris Chinnock

There are many emerging methods to transport audio and video over IP networks and one of those approaches is called AVB (Audio-Video Bridging) or sometimes eAVB (Ethernet AVB).The development of the standard, compliance and …

Tags:AVB| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sony Highlights Projection and Laser Sources

by Bob Raikes

At Sony, we looked at the VPL-FHZ60 and VPL-FHZ60 projectors which are laser-based projectors using the 3LCD imaging and laser-phosphor to create a full range of colour. Sony talked at SID about what it …

Gefen Shows Wireless 4K Transmission at Infocomm

by Norbert Hildebrand

Gefen showed a UHD/4k wireless transmission over two 2k transmitters at Infocomm 2015. The transmission stitched two FHD/2k streams together to achieve a UHD signal transmission in the 60 GHz band with a range …

Microsoft Shows Off the Surface Hub

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft had a large area that it occupied along with partners, to promote its Surface Hub product. (Maverick: “Surface Hub is a Game Changer”). The product is built around either an 84″ (Intel core …

Absen Makes Rental/Staging Easier

by Bob Raikes

Absen is one of the better of the LED brands from China and had lots to show us. The company first showed us its X3/X5 LED system which, unusually, it described as indoor/outdoor. The …

Philips Sees Positive Response for Ambilight

by Bob Raikes

Philips had one of the smaller booths for what we consider to be a major brand, although it has never been quite such a strong brand in the US as it is in Europe. …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Samsung Scoops Awards at Infocomm

by Tom Allen

Samsung received three awards for its digital signage at Infocomm 2015. Digital Signage Magazine presented the company with its ‘Best of Infocomm’ award; Rave Publications‘ readers voted for Samsung as ‘Favourite Display Manufacturer’; and …