Vol 24 – Issue 37 – Page 7

New DLP Chips Are for Mainstream FHD Projection

by Bob Raikes

TI has added two new DLP chips, the DLP470NE, which is a 0.47″ 1920 x 1080 DMD and the 0.48″ 1920 x 1200 DLP480RE. The chips have 5.4µm pixels and so fit alongside the …

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Update for Dish 4K Joey Allows Multi-Room Netflix in UHD

by Andrew Fenn

US pay TV provider Dish has enabled multi-room Ultra HD Netflix viewing with a new app for its 4K Joey client. The 4K Joey add-on allows Dish users to stream content from their main …

Nationstar Edges Its Way Into IHS LED Top 10

by Andrew Fenn

IHS Markit has updated its LED Supply & Demand Market Tracker, and it’s good news for Nationstar. After fighting for a spot throughout 2016 and early 2017, the Chinese company—which specialises in LED lighting …

Samsung to Switch to In-folding Devices

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display has been showing design concepts of foldable phones and other devices for some years. Most of them had ‘fold in’ displays where the display surfaces are folded to face each other. However, …

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New York MTA Extends DOOH Partnership with Outfront

by Andrew Fenn

Outfront Media has announced a continuation of its long-running partnership with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The MTA’s board of directors has selected Outfront for an extension of its Digital Out-of-Home advertising and …

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ViewSonic Projectors Deliver High Value for Money

by Bob Raikes

ViewSonic has two new DLP projectors for education and corporate use. The PG703X has 1024 x 768 resolution while PG703W has 1280 x 800 and they both produce 4,000 Ansi lumens with a throw …

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Micro-LED Display to Double as Sensor Platform

by Steve Sechrist

Ok Here is an interesting confluence of ideas, probably not lost on most, but new to me… Digitimes posted an interesting research note this week, stating that, “…a major advantage for Micro LEDs is …

Taiwan’s EOSRL Planning 2018 MicroLED Production

by Bob Raikes

ITRI’s display group, the Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL) is working on micro-LED displays that could be used for large TV scale devices in conjunction with Macroblock, which develops LED drivers. EOSRL …

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Nvidia Shield Update Brings Google Assistant Support

by Andrew Fenn

The latest update for the Nvidia Shield set-top-box adds support for Google Assistant, as well as 360° video via YouTube and Samsung SmartThings, alongside an array of other new features. The update marks the …

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Stratacache Acquires Retail Insight Company Walkbase

by Andrew Fenn

Intelligent digital signage firm Stratacache has announced it has acquired Finland-based creator of retail analysis tools, Walkbase. This latest acquisition is all part of Stratacache’s ongoing growth of its customer experience strategy—the company defines …

An AR Headset Designed for Minimally Invasive Surgery

by Arthur Berman

Founded in 2014 with seed financing from TerraLab, an incubator of the Israeli Innovation Authority, Augmedics Ltd. (Yokne’am Illit, Israel) is a startup developing a device called the ViZOR System. The device is an …

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Samsung Sets Out Plans for S-Pen

by Bob Raikes

Samsung published an interview with one of its own engineers, Hyesoon Jeong, about the development of the Signature S Pen in the Galaxy Note 8. She said that the aim had been to add …

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