Sure, 80 percent of the attendees of this year’s ISE show in Amsterdam are European, but, it’s the sheer numbers of them that astounded me — and many others here at Integrated Systems Europe in February 2011. Literally almost 35,000 attendees scanned their badges as they walked into the 10 massive halls of AV exhibits […]
A few months after debuting its first flexible ePaper prototype displays, Liquavista BV (based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and spun out from Philips Research Labs in 2006) is being acquired by Samsung Electronics. Johan Feenstra is succeeding Guy Demuynck as the company CEO. A pioneer in ePaper technology (displays for e-readers, mobile phones, media players […]
What does a company with of $79 billion in sales last year (a 23 percent increase over the year before) really want? Well, Samsung is considering a plan to push interactive advertisements from other companies through Samsung’s phones and flat-screen TVs. Samsung’s new apps (similar to Apple’s store for its iPhone) lets consumers stream content […]
Weighing less than an iPhone, Samsung’s first Pico LED projector, the H03, will feature 30 ANSI brightness in a lightweight, fairly cool looking design – but it’s not official, yet. Samsungs says the H03 has been designed to provide the world’s brightest pico display solution with an “ultra-efficient” LED lamp that gives more than 30,000 […]
Samsung’s new flagship line of 3D LED/LCD TVs is featuring Silicon Image’s enhanced InstaPort S single-second switching technology. InstaPort S-enabled HDTVs will work with any HDMI-connected source and is designed to significantly reduce the four to seven-second delay that typically occurs when switching between HDMI-enabled devices connected to a TV – a MAJOR flaw in […]
Nokia Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation last week formed MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) Consortium to develop a new mobile audio/video interface standard for directly connecting mobile phones and other portable consumer electronics (CE) devices to high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and displays. The MHL standard features a single cable with a low […]
Dubbed the HW-C770BS, Samsung says their new flagship receiver will only be $549 and will include four HDMI inputs (all scaled to 1080p if you want). It will be HDMI 1.4 compatible and is a 7.1 system, including 3D surround, Dolby Digital® True HD and DTS HD decoding and will ship with speakers. It’s not […]
So far, this is the brightest (if you believe the specs) LED-lit projector on the market. The LCD-based, SP-F10M is XGA resolution (1024×768), has both analog (VGA) and digital (HDMI) ports and weighs in at just under 10 pounds. Although the specs are impressive, the reason we’re covering this is that it’s spec’d at the […]
Although aimed at the ProAV market, it’s worth mentioning as LED-lit projectors are now bright enough for home theater applications – you’ll see a host of them entering the market from June-December. So far, this is the brightest (if you believe the specs) LED-lit projector on the market. The LCD-based, SP-F10M is XGA resolution (1024×768), […]
Last month, Samsung announced the $799 SAMCAM 860 — a 1.4 megapixel (SXGA resolution) document panel with 6x optical zoom, a “video recording on-board” feature and an integrated 32GB SD Memory card. Samsung claims the SAMCAM 860 outputs 30fps HD video with resolutions up to 1280×720 and even includes both video and audio outputs (for […]
We’re including a look at what we think is the coolest looking Blu-ray player ever: the Samsung BD-P4600. We know nothing of it’s performance or reliability (or how long it takes to start-up – a spec often, amazingly exaggerated by manufacturers of Blu-ray players), but we do know that it’s got a very low profile […]
Although we’re not big fans of document cameras here at rAVe, we still cover them as many of you are. The nicest one we saw at the show was probably the UF-130ST from Samsung. The $2000 UF-130ST is a native 720 output camera (VGA, DVI and USB) and it’s one of the first document cameras […]
NEC was first to the market in announcing their bezel-less LCD with the X461UN. Everyone decided to order it and it’s one of the hottest products not quite yet on the market today. Enter Barco. Last month, Barco entered the field with their NSL-4601 and they claim they are days away from shipping. Then comes […]
On the heels of NEC and Barco, Samsung has entered the narrow-bezel LCD market with the 460UT line of 46” monitors. Specificed at 700 nits or brightness and a contrast ratio of 3000:1, the WXGA (1366 x 768) LCDs are aimed at video-wall applications, too. But, Samsung is way behind because NEC and Barco are […]
AMIMON, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony banded together to form a special interest group to develop a new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control using Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology. They even say they’ll have it done by year’s end. The consortium points to the WHDI video-modem‘s ability to operate in […]
At the FPD International 2006 show in Japan, Samsung showed its anticipated 70-inch HD LCD panel. The company says this is the first display that can reproduce full HD video images at 120Hz with most LCD panels having a 60Hz refresh rate. The company plans commercial production of these 70-inch, full-HD LCD panels early […]
Samsung says the company developed a 70-inch LCD HDTV panel, which bests the current largest size of 65 inches (Sharp). Samsung will show this display for the first time at the International Meeting on Information Displays (IMID) 2006, which will open in Daegu, Korea on August 23. The company says this high definition panel has […]