Vol 24 – Issue 11 – Page 4

4KUniverse to Launch 4K SVOD on Amazon Fire TV

by Alan Spencer

4KUniverse is to launch its 4K SVOD service on Amazon Fire TV in May this year in North America. The service will be based on Accedo’s Videa cloud-based platform solution. The channel is available …

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An Improved 2D-Autostereoscopic 3D Display Technology

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Haiyu Chen at the State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) is developing a switchable 2D – autostereoscopic 3D …

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Immy to Develop MicroLED-based HMD for AR & VR

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Immy Inc. has developed the Immy Neo iC 60 see-through HMD, initially for augmented reality (AR) applications but follow-on units will eventually be usable for virtual reality (VR) applications as well. This unit is …

OLED Looks to Automotive as a Stepping Stone for Lighting

by Bob Raikes

Dr Mark Philippens is from Osram OLED and he talked about non-display applications for OLED. He started by looking at the differences between OLED displays and lighting. His talk was mainly on OLED for …

Prof Kathirgamanathan Sees QDs Important for Rec. 2020

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker was Prof Poopathy Kathirgamanathan (PK) who is a display technologist from Brunel University in London. He was originally very involved in OLED and is now involved in Quantum Dots (QD) and …

Embedded World Buzzes – ED Conference is Bigger

by Bob Raikes

Prof Karlheinz Blankenbach kicked off the 31st Electronic Display conferece in Nuremberg. The event takes place alongside the Embedded World exhibition and we usually get around that show. We were unable to attend more …

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Mitsubishi Extends LCD Life and Operating Conditions

by Bob Raikes

Mitsubishi had plenty of news at the event, as it has most years when it shows its range of industrial displays at this event. First we had a look at a range of transflective …

Embedded World 2017 – Round Up

by Bob Raikes

4D Systems has developed ‘microLCDs’ that are complete display systems including controllers that use 0.7″ 80 x 160 displays. The displays are driven using SBI cost $4.95, one off and the company, which is …

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HDBaseT Takes Aim at Automotive with Multistream

by Bob Raikes

HDBaseT and Valens were showing the HDBaseT interface being used for automotive applications. In this application simple UTP (or coax) cables can be used and simpler/cheaper cables can be installed in autos with a …

Sony to Show 4K RGB Laser Projector Prototype at CinemaCon

by Chris Chinnock

Sony has been very quiet in the cinema projection market for quite some time. That is about to change as they unveil a new RGB 4K laser projector at the upcoming CinemaCon trade show …

Bochum To Get Gigabit Internet Service

by Alan Spencer

According to Broadband TV News, Liberty Global’s German subsidiary, Unitymedia is to launch a gigabit Internet service in the city of Bochum in the first quarter of 2018. The service will be based on …

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Big Retail Roll-out in the US

by Bob Raikes

Westfield Corporation, through its Brand Ventures division, has said that it will roll out 450 digital displays based on the 75″ Espirit Digital models and Ayuda Media Systems Software in 17 locations in the …

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