Futuresource Consulting says the global projector market’s value decline rapidly outpaces the sales volume – leading the consultant to express its fears that certain vendors will struggle to maintain a presence in the mainstream market.

In Q1 2016, the WW projector market unit volume declined 3% year on year (YoY) to 1.73m units, with value tumbling 3X this pace(- 9%) to $1.9 billion.

If you want the good news, there are some pockets of growth: China and India experienced Q1 resurgence and global sales of laser phosphor projectors were up Read more...

Specktron exhibits at CeBIT 2016 as they push to increase awareness of their brand in the European market and to show their latest interactive LED displays-- designed for education and corporate environments.

There’s the SDX Series (55" & 65") with direct lit LED, infra-red touch technology, integrated Android system, optional detachable PC module, built-in speakers and multi-language Interactive software

Also available is the TDX series (55", 65", 70", 84", 98") with responsive touch technology and a dual operating system platform (Android embedded and optional slots in Windows PC.)

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) finalises version 1.4 of the DisplayPort (DP) standard-- a first major update since 2014's version 1.3 featuring Display Stream Compression (DSC) 1.2 technology.

DSC 1.2 enables display resolutions reaching 5120x2880 (5k)@60Hz wigh high dynamic range (HDR), as well as 8K (7680x4320)@60Hz in both HDR and standard modes. In addition it handles Deep Colour 120Hz 4K panels, and provides HD video with 32-channel audio.

“This significant update to the DisplayPort standard is vital to continued growth of adoption for both DP and DSC, particularly in such fast-growing markets as digital television and automotive infotainment,” VESA says. “New applications are demanding displays with better resolution, wider color gamut, and increased dynamic range. We believe the tools provided in this new DP standard release will enable a quantum leap forward in display quality, which leverage DSC compression along with transport of high-quality audio and video content.”

Over the past few years, UHD TVs have been a mix of HDCP 2.2 and 1.4, 300MHz and 600MHz — even to the point of varying by port.

Now Murideo has developed a new test tool, the Fresco SIX-G, for the display & video integration market to confirm HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 compliance at the 18 GBP/sec level.

Additionally the SIX-G is an excellent troubleshooting tool for distributed HDMI systems and a reference source for video calibration-- and is compatible with CalMAN.

One of the biggest challenges for integrators today is determining what infrastructure Read more...