Vol 22 – Issue 26 – Page 10

Pay-TV to Pass 1 Billion in 2017

by Tom Allen

There were more than 900 million pay-TV customers worldwide in Q1’15, according to ABI Research – representing 48% technology penetration. The market is forecast to grow ‘steadily’ over the next five years, with the …

Panasonic Shows Laser Phosphor Projector and Announces 4K Projector

by Norbert Hildebrand

Panasonic announced its PT-RZ12K laser phosphor projector at Infocomm, a new model that comes with 12,000 lumen and three DLP chips (0.96″ WUXGA 1920 x 1200 resolution) and boasts a 20,000:1 contrast ratio. With …

Infocomm 2015: Currents and Undercurrents for the Education Marketplace

by Len Scrogan

I’ve been an educational technology director for 25 years, with a significant track record in large educational technology and AV purchases. I just returned from walking every aisle of Infocomm 2015, poking my head …

ZeeVee Can Support Legacy Coax Video (DS15)

by Bob Raikes

Danny Barr is from ZeeVee and he talked about extending and switching UltraHD video in mission-critical applications. His talk was entitled “The 3 Cs of Video Distribution:Complexity, Compression and Cost”. ZeeVee’s history is in …

HDBaseT Needs Better Cables for UltraHD (DS14)

by Bob Raikes

Micha Risling is from the HDBaseT Alliance and also works for Valens, the semiconductor company behind the technology. As had already been said, the big challenge in interfaces is how to extend for longer …

Keep HDMI and Develop MHL Says Lattice (DS13)

by Bob Raikes

Marshall Goldberg is from Lattice Semiconductor, which recently bought Silicon Image, the developer of HDMI and MHL and the owners of the SiBeam wireless technology. Goldberg went through the history of HDMI from V1.4 …

Day Two of Display Summit Looks at Connectivity to Start (DS12)

by Bob Raikes

The second day of the Display Summit started with a session moderated by our own Bob Raikes that covered connectivity, especially the impact of UltraHD/4k content. The first speaker was Bob Ventresca who is …

Kverve Has New Optics for AR (DS11b)

by Bob Raikes

Jorn Eriksen is from Kverve, a start up from Norway (Eriksen was the founder of CEO of Projection Design, so has some track record in the industry). The project that Kverve is working on …

BenQ Demos Color Accuracy at Display Summit

by Helen Vince

BenQ pitted its HC1200 projector against two other unmarked projectors in a comparison of brightness and colors with a reference monitor as a guide at Display Summit 2015.

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Christie Shows Fast Calibration Tool

by Helen Vince

One of the challenges in projection mapping applications is properly registering your projectors to the objects to be projected onto. Now with two cameras, the projectors used for the mapping and some software, Christie …

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Hitachi Shows Nice Blended Projector Box

by Helen Vince

Hitachi showed how you can blend multiple projectors on 4-sided surface to create an immersive and impressive image.

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Leyard & Dimenco Show 110″ 3D LED

by Helen Vince

3D developer Dimenco worked with LED supplier Leyard to demonstrate a glasses-free 3D 108″ display at InfoComm 2015.

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