LG Electronics introduces its Touch 10 monitor, ET83, optimised for use with Windows 8, which was launched by Microsoft last week. Whereas conventional touch screens enable two-finger dragging, scrolling and pinching, LG’s 23’’ Touch 10 monitor allows all ten fingers to be used simultaneously.
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Available from November JVC Professional has a new, expanded line of four home theatre projectors. They offer upgraded e-shift technology, which up-converts and scales HD content to a 4K (3840 x 2160) and displays it at full 4K precision signal.
PSCo Technical Distribution, UK-based distributor of advanced display products and services, has announced an exclusive partnership with SMS Smart Media Solutions (SMS), to distribute the Swedish company’s custom-made video wall bracket throughout the UK.
The FPR (Film-type Patterned Retarder) 3D technology in AOC’s new d2757Ph display is said to deliver flicker-free videos and 3D images. Contrary to the shutter technology, there are no shutter glasses required to generate parts of the 3D effect, instead this is achieved through the technology within the monitor.
Optoma has recognized the importance of colour and offers its ProScene EH7500 WUXGA projector now also in white in addition to the standard black.
Coventry University now allows its journalism students the experience of working in a live news environment using professional broadcast equipment. With two radio studios and one TV broadcast studio already equipped, deploying Teracue DVB gateways, multiple news channels off Freeview (DVB-S) are brought straight into the news press rooms.
Defence provides examples of directly measurable cost saving opportunities, but it is far from the only benefit. VR visualisation has applications anywhere there is a need for a three dimensional visual world to be created by a computer for display on a wall, cube or other surface.
Impact was awarded the contract to design, supply and integrate state of the art collaboration technology to one of the world’s leading alternative investment management companies, the Man Group, at its new flagship offices at ‘Riverbank House’ in London.
VC distributor Nimans says that its sales are bucking general industry trends. Systems sales – spanning Panasonic, Siemens Enterprise Communications, NEC, Aastra and Samsung – show orders and revenue up on 2011 levels. Overall the systems team exceeded sales and profit targets in June, landing hundreds of additional orders. The team has now hit target three out of the last four months as forward momentum continues.
Ingram Micro (UK) has appointed Raj Pandya, formerly of Sony to head up its AV division. Pandya will be rejoining Ingram from Sony where he currently holds the position of General Manager – B2B Channels based out of Sony’s office in Weybridge and is expected to start the newly created role of Head of Audio-Visual at Ingram Micro in the coming weeks.