Christie has announced the successor to the Christie LX1000 The 12,000 lumen Christie LX1200 is suitable for rental staging applications, boardrooms, high education facilities and houses of worship. Featuring XGA (1024 x 768) resolution, the Christie LX1200 fills the market need for a high brightness, LCD projector providing radiant imagery and finer contrast. Brighter and more advanced than its predecessor, the Christie LX1200 utilises the 4DColor technology that incorporates a fourth (yellow) LCD panel, delivering vibrant colours to presentations. The LX1200 also features a mechanical light shutter to block light when required, inorganic LCD panels for long life expectancy and…
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Canon has entered the UST projector market with the LV-8235 UST.
Off The Wall (UK) has announced several new ranges of TV furniture for this Autumn/Winter season. Over the past year, says OTW, the TV furniture market has witnessed growth in ‘cabinet’ type TV stands as consumers are now willing to spend more, due to an increase in choice of premium designs on the market. This has resulted in obvious cash margin benefits to the retailer. Targeting this trend and building on the success of the Off The Wall’s PROFILE cabinet stand, the ‘HORIZON’ and ‘ECLIPSE’ are the first to market and share the same design platform with subtle differences. The…
Christie has announce the next generation of its 3-chip DLP Xenon platform – the Christie J Series. This new platform targets a variety of applications within the rental, staging and fixed install segments, requiring high brightness in a rugged package. “Christie has taken its highly successful Xenon product line and evolved it with exciting new features like embedded Christie Twist that allows for image warping without the need to purchase additional electronics cards. Driven by a Xenon illumination system that offers the best colour reproduction and stability, J Series also offers lenses with Intelligent Lens System (ILS) functionality and three…
Crestron has introduced the latest addition to its DigitalMedia AV distribution family, the DM-RMC-SCALER-C. This new digital receiver and room controller features a built in HD scaler for achieving high-definition resolution on every connected display in the home or workplace. The DM-RMC-SCALER-C provides a single HDMI output that produces the finest high-definition resolution in any room on a DigitalMedia 8G+ network. Regardless of the display used, DM-RMC-SCALER-C will accept any video source, from standard 480i to HD 1080p60 with Deep Colour, as well as all computer sources, and will effortlessly scale them for the best possible HD viewing experience. “The…
No-glasses 3D TV, Super Hi-Vision and Smart TV as the dominant them – just some of the highlights of IFA Berlin 2011.
With the launch of Toshiba’s large screen glasses-free 3D TV at IFA last week, suddenly everything else on show looked dated. The new 55’’ ZL2 uses a combination of Toshiba’s CEVO processing platform, a nine segment active lenticular lens array, face tracking, Resolution+, Auto Calibration, 2D to 3D conversion, and Smart TV capability. The ZL2 is the world’s first TV targeted at consumers to include a Quad Full HD display, offering up to 3840 x 2160 pixel resolution. Yes, there were more impressive 3D demonstrations with glasses and specially created content, but the Toshiba ZL2 heralds a new generation of…
Epson finally showed its long-awaited, Full HD 3D projectors at IFA last week. Epson says that its luminance enhancement technology creates 3D content that is noticeably brighter than other Full HD 3D home cinema projectors. Also, by doubling the refresh rate from 240hz to 480hz, the blackout period between left and right eye images is said to be dramatically reduced. Of the five projectors announced, the EH-TW9000 and EH-TW9000W are top-of-the-range models that offer 2,400 lumens and high contrast ratios of up to 200,000:1. The EH-TW5900, EH-TW6000 and EH-TW6000W are among the most affordable 3D 1080p home cinema projectors on…
Sharp staged the European premiere of the world’s first Super Hi-Vision capable LCD display. The next-generation television format, with about 33 million pixels (7680 x 4320) will have 16 times higher resolution than today’s HDTV. The prototype, which is still named 8K4K after its resolution, is a further development of the Sharp 4K2K display, which is already available as a system component delivering 8.8 million pixels (4096 x 2160), or four times the resolution of the HDTV standard. The 8K4K is the world’s first monitor that is capable of displaying Super Hi-Vision, which Sharp says is the TV format of tomorrow, also…
Midwich has announced a distribution agreement with LG’s to sell the CF3D passive 3D projector