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Leyard Shows Top Half of an 8K LED Display

by Helen Vince

Leyard created a large LED wall at InfoComm 2015 using 1.25mm pitch panels that had about half the vertical, but the full horizontal resolution of an 8K display.

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Leyard| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Panasonic and NEC Showcase LED vs. LCD at Display Summit 2015

by Helen Vince

The Display Summit 2015 was the showcase for a comparison between a fine pitch (1.25mm) LED wall supplied by Panasonic and a 2×2 LCD wall supplied by NEC. Both featured the same content for …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| NEC| Panasonic| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Digilens Creates Polymer Optics (DS11)

by Bob Raikes

Jonathan Waldern is CEO of Digilens which has a new kind of material for waveguide optics. He started by asking “who has heard of Google Glass?” – who has tried it, and who would …

Panasonic Shows Projection Mapping

by Helen Vince

Panasonic showed a couple of interesting projection mapping solutions at InfoComm 2015. One was illuminating a car and one incorporated a tablet-based augmented reality capability.

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Mapping & Cartography| Panasonic| Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Philips Shows Backward Compatible HDR Signal Transport at Display Summit 2015

by Helen Vince

Philips used the Display Summit to show how it can deliver an SDR (standard dynamic range) video stream with metadata that can be used to derive an HDR (high dynamic range) image for an …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Infocomm 2015| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 26

NEC Shows Blended Whiteboard Application

by Helen Vince

NEC showed how it can blend multiple short throw projectors to create an interactive white board solution for corporate or education markets.

Tags:Infocomm 2015| NEC| Projectors| Short Throw| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sharma Calls for Industry to Measure with Lab* (DS10)

by Bob Raikes

Dr Abhay Sharma is a Color Consultant from Abhay Consulting and he is also a professor from Toronto University. He started by saying that we need numbers to measure colour, and he doesn’t understand …

rpVisuals Shows Ribbon of Content on Multiple Display Technologies

by Helen Vince

rpVisuals had a very nice demo where the same content was shown on a number of displays all side by side. This included front and rear projection, LCD and LED.

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Rear Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sony Shows First Laser Phosphor Projector Capable of HDR

by Helen Vince

Sony showed several new 3LCD projectors with laser phosphor technology, but the most interesting one is a new 4k SXRD projector that will show 80% of the 2020 gamut. It is also the first …

Anoto Shows Novel Pen-Display Interface with 600 dpi Resolution

by Helen Vince

Anoto has a new film for pen input that offers very fine detail reproduction – up to 600 or more dpi. (This technology was also used by Panasonic on its ToughPad 4k tablet as …

Tags:Film materials| Infocomm 2015| Pen Input| Vol 22 - Issue 26

BenQ Wants Brightness Measured with sRGB (DS9)

by Bob Raikes

Felix Pementel of BenQ looked at what makes a great image on a projector. “Do you really give the consumer the specifications they really need to make a good buying decisions?”, he asked. He …

TV Makers Choose China

by Tom Allen

TV outsourcing will reach a record high this year, says IHS DisplaySearch. TV sets made by outsourcing specialists will represent 43% of LCD TVs shipped worldwide in 2015. Outsourcing is now one of the …