Panasonic Europe’s launches four LCD series for the digital signage market, available in November.

The LFP30 models can withstand harsh weather conditions and comply with the IP66 standard for weather resistance (protected against water and dust penetration). The aluminium cabinet and tempered glass front make the panels rugged while the winter-mode ensures the screens can withstand temperatures as low as -20 C. The High Brightness (1.000 cd/m2) of the LFP30 is ideally suited to outdoor applications, including advertising and Point of Sale. Available in 42” & 47,” these units will suit installation in factories, public spaces, and transport facilities.

The 47” LFT30 display has an integrated touch panel, a combination of LCD trans-reflective technology, brightness level of 1.500 cd/m2 and a forced-air cooling system that allows the display to be used even in direct sunlight. This series is standard equipped with protection against water and dust at a level equivalent to IP53, allowing interactive applications in public spaces and facilities such as information kiosks in shopping centres.

For ambient light conditions such as shop windows, the brighter LF30 series, available in 42” and 47”, has an ambient light sensor to control the backlight and comes with Panasonic’s original function slots, "SLOT2.0", allowing users to change interfaces or internal computers easily depending on the signal source.

The LF25 series, available in 42” & 47”, is more for indoor signage applications as it features a slim frame suitable for standard POS and POI screens and menu boards. They offer a wide-viewing angle IPS panel with vertical or horizontal use and a wide option of standard terminals.

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Christie launched its new Christie YK50 dual-arm projector yoke at LDI 2011. The newest addition to the Christie Nitro Solutions family of yokes and projectors, the Christie YK50 is smaller than the Christie YK100 (single-arm yoke) and Christie YK200 (dual-arm yoke), and is suitable for live events, theatre productions, and staging applications in small- to mid-sized venues where moving video and lighting enhance the audience experience, but space is at a premium.

The Christie YK50, designed for the Christie LX700 or Christie LHD700 projectors, can be used as a moving light or moving video projector. The Christie YK50, when combined with the Christie LX700 or Christie LHD700, provides 7000 ANSI lumens – making this a solution for houses of worship, museums, trade shows, and nightclubs.

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Display and TV makers looking for The Next Big Thing may have found it. Palo Alto-based Nanosys says today’s displays only offer 30% of the colors the human eye can see in reality.

Nanosys, as you can tell by the name, works in the world of nano-materials, materials up to 100,000X thinner than a human hair. From this nanotechnology background, the company has come up with process of mass producing nanocrystals of particular sizes, embedding them in a solution and then coating a thin sheet of film with it.

This thin nanoparticle film goes inside a display to effectively double the color range the display can show. QDEF and QuantumRail are composed of Nanosys’ proprietary, high efficiency quantum dot phosphors. Larger than a water molecule, but smaller than a virus, these tiny phosphors convert blue light from a standard GaN LED into different wavelengths based upon their size.

Samsung and LG are believers-- both are Nanosys investors. The first devices containing its quantum dot technology -- probably tablets or notebook computers – should reach US stores in the first half of next year and TVs by the end of 2012. Can pro displays be far behind?

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projectiondesign got our vote for the best stand at the new xSolutions show in UK.

They demonstrated their projection solutions including the F35 wqxga high-resolution projector, the FR12 Remote Light Source projector for command and control and the F82 series featuring 3-chip DLP technology.

In addition, projectiondesign previewed the world’s highest resolution 3D single-chip DLP projector, the F35 AS3D.

What clinched their “pole position” at XSolutions was their real-life motion platform Formula 1 simulator on the stand. Courtesy of PureTech Racing, this simulation drew pro AV integrators who stood in line to get their shot at the fast lane.

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