Vol 25 - Issue 23

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Infocomm 2018 Attendence Up on 2016

by Bob Raikes

Infocomm this year was in Las Vegas and next year heads back to Orlando on its ‘East/West coast, Tick/Tock’ rhythm. I hear from those on the booths that each location tends to attract a …

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Infocomm 2018 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Advoli is a company that impressed us at ISE with its HDBaseT supporting graphics cards (HDBaseT Coordinates Supporters). At Infocomm, it was showing the TA4, a four output (at 4K) card that can support …

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Infocomm 2018 Projection Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Canon was showing a special system for dome projection that included both a PC (where the geometric calculations were performed) and a 46″ dome screen. The image was being projected by a WUX500ST projector …

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Infocomm 2018 Collaboration & Touch Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Avocor has slight differences in its product range in US and Europe. The company told us that Microsoft was promoting its displays at the show as now that the original Surface Hub has stopped …

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Infocomm 2018 LED Roundup

by Bob Raikes

We’ve reported on Absen a lot, already this year, from ISE, ProLight & Sound and NAB, so there was not a lot that was new, although several products were new to the US market. …

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Christie Shows Content Generation & Display

by Bob Raikes

Christie was showing its Mystique Install technology which can use cameras to perform auto-calibration without the need for special test patterns. A new feature is Christie Guardian which is an ‘always on’, always running …

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Leyard Previews New Rental LEDs & Updates to add Video Processing

by Bob Raikes

Leyard/Planar had plenty to show at the event. The first thing we looked at was a new processor, the Leyard DirectLight X controller has now been upgraded to add support for UltraHD and 4K …

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PQLabs Adds Object Recognition to its IR Touch

by Bob Raikes

PQLabs was showing its Gen8 infrared touch technology which can now be extended to support video walls up to 4m x 4m. PQLabs can support video walls up to 4m x 4m. Image:Meko PQLabs …

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ROE Challenges Rental & Staging LED Design

by Bob Raikes

ROE is the rental & staging business that is owned by Unilumin and the company released a new mechanical system for high end rental and staging that eliminates the need for a separate extra …

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Peerless Extends XBrite Range – Happy about Electric Vehicles

by Bob Raikes

Peerless started by showing us its Xtreme range of high brightness displays which extend from the Xtreme TVs that we reported on last year. The range now includes 43″/49″/55″ and (later) 65″ with FullHD …

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Barco Highlights Video Walls and Updates ClickShare

by Bob Raikes

Barco started by showing us its latest UST projector lens and was also highlighting the high quality of its integrated blending and scaling technologies. It was also showing its dedicated external controllers. Barco was …

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InFocus Fills in Collaboration Display Ranges

by Bob Raikes

InFocus has been repositioning its ranges of product. At one time, it had just the very sophisticated and very full featured Mondopad at one end of the range and the JTouch simple touch displays …

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