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Philips Updates on HDR (DS1)

by Bob Raikes

The first session at the Display Summit was on “Trends in High Dynamic Range Ecosystem” (sic). The first speaker was Joop Talstra who is from Philips where he is involved with standardisation. He started …

At Infocomm, Less is More

by Bob Raikes

Infocomm had a good buzz this year. It was the first Infocomm that this reporter has attended personally for around ten years. The event now sits in second place after ISE in terms of …

Optoma and Hitachi to Build ColorSpark Projectors

by Matthew Brennesholtz

At Infocomm, Philips announced it’s ColorSpark high lumen density (HLD) LED technology. (See the June 17 Display Daily) At the time, Philips said that both Coretronic and Hitachi would produce ColorSpark-based projectors, with the …

A Week of AV Trends and Developments in Florida

by Norbert Hildebrand

This week in Orlando provided a full set of news for the Pro AV market on all levels. First, we had Display Summit 2015 and then InfoComm opened its doors to all things Pro …

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V-Nova Shows Flexibility in Paris

by Tom Allen

V-Nova has demonstrated the practicality of its Perseus signal compression technology in the Airbus Group pavilion at the Paris Air Show 2015. V-Nova wanted to show how Perseus was not limited to broadcasting, but …

Huawei Confuses With ’10-Inch’ Screen – Not Display

by Tom Allen

The name of Huawei’s new tablet, the T1 10″, is slightly misleading, as it isn’t actually a 10″ (or even 10.1″) model at all – the display is 9.6″. According to Techradar, which asked …

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Fairphone Brings Desktop Modularity to Your Pocket

by Tom Allen

Dutch company Fairphone is a phone maker with a difference. The company’s self-named smartphone uses ethically-sourced materials and is designed to have a long lifespan: it is modular, but in a different vein to …

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AMD Skips HDMI 2.0 Support

by Tom Allen

According to an AMD representative on the Overclockers UK forum, AMD’s new ‘Fiji’ chip (AMD Has Big Plans for UltraHD) does not support an important part of the HDMI 2.0 standard: the ability to …

Toshiba Gets Into Windows 10, Pre-Launch

by Tom Allen

Toshiba has announced a range of laptops that will go on sale at the start of July, just before the launch of Windows 10. Each one uses either a new AMD Carrizo or a …

Cumbria Police Lower Admin Time With Samsung

by Tom Allen

Around 1,500 police officers in Cumbria (UK) have been issued with a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 device, as part of an effort to modernise policing in the area. The move is part of a …

Romania Trials DVB-T2

by Tom Allen

Radiocom, the Romanian national transmission company, has begun DVB-T2 tests. The tests are taking place in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Timisoara. All transmitters for DVB-T2 should be in place by the end of 2016.

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Mind-Control Tested by BBC

by Tom Allen

The BBC is trialing a way for people to control their TV using the power of their thoughts. BBC Digital created the prototype with The Place. 10 BBC employees used a headset, measuring electrical …

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