At ISE 2014, tvONE will show off its CORIOmaster mini with “The Real-Time Video Windmill,” a novel display featuring a rotating array that maintains a stable horizon while its four 46” flat panel displays (all showing video) rotate 360° in real-time.

Video sources will include live showroom floor video as well as compelling streaming media. To showcase its full potential, the CORIOmaster mini will alternate between displaying a stable horizon while displays rotate, rotating video in sync with the displays, or counter-rotating video in the opposite direction of the rotating displays.

tvONE’s CORIOmaster mini enables a range of video manipulation tasks to be performed simultaneously, including real-time 360° video rotations and multi-projector edge blending. It is the industry’s first videowall processor to fit up to 12 High Density Universal DVI or 10 HDBaseT and 2 High Density Universal DVI ports in a compact 1RU frame, controlling full-scale 3x3 videowalls without a rack’s worth of discrete video components.

Only now am I reading The Hunger Games trilogy, so Odeon Cinemas may forgive me for missing their Leicester Square opening a couple months back.

NEC Display Solutions Europe and Odeon installed one of the largest displays of its kind in a public square – an LED digital display measuring 107 square metres – on the facade of the Odeon Leicester Square in London’s West End.

The huge display – the size of half a basketball court – replaces the old poster board and is flanked by two 18 square metre displays in one of the UK’s most prominent. 90 million tourists every year walk by and stare up at that display: with or without The Hunger Games draw.

Christie says it has “achieved best-in-class 1-chip DLP brightness” with the new Christie Q Series that debuts at ISE 2014. The Christie Q Series 1-chip DLPplatform has brightness options ranging from 8500 to 10,000 lumens and XGA, WXGA and WUXGA resolutions.

For rental staging applications including concerts, conventions and other events where visuals are a vital component, Christie says end users will see the Q Series’ difference when blending and warping images from multiple projectors onto flat, curved, hexagonal, or spherical surfaces.

Usable in either single or dual-lamp mode, Christie Q Series is equipped with eClarity –advanced image processing that significantly enhances images by providing greater control over image sharpness, gloss and shading. Christie eClarity delivers increased image clarity of standard definition content – making images stand out more than ever. With built-in High Dynamic Contrast Range (HDCR), image ‘washout’ in high ambient light conditions is eliminated.

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Daktronics will share its Moment of Exclusivity, managed by Daktronics Show Control System, at ISE 2014.

Moments of Exclusivity are unique viewing experiences for fans in stadiums and sports arenas, created when the venue’s displays all sync simultaneously to show the same advertising or message. This wash of exclusivity can be used for brand awareness, or combined with a specific event such as a score, for instant promotion.

Show Control's all-in-one touch screen system, with its intuitive visual presentation interface allows all the screens in a stadium to be fully integrated and managed from a central location. The Moment of Exclusivity can be effortlessly set up as one touch of a button.

Standing over 15 meters tall and 60 meters wide, “The Big Picture” has the official Guinness World Records title for the Largest High Definition Video Wall.

It is located inside the main lobby and entrance to Suntec Exhibition and Convention Centre in Singapore and is fast becoming a hotspot for photo-taking by delegates and Suntec City shoppers alike.

The system relies on the Dataton WATCHOUT multi-image display and presentation software to manage its large-format, dynamic and ever-changing content that is presented over 664 integrated LG LED flat panel displays.

Arun Madhok, CEO of Suntec Singapore said: “The full HD digital wall is an integral part of our technology suite which includes digital signage and free Wi-Fi. This mega screen with its captivating content is fast becoming a hotspot for photographers providing an iconic and memorable souvenir of Singapore. High definition content is played 16 hours each day delighting the convention centre visitors and Suntec City shoppers alike.

A Costa Rican volcano erupts, spewing forth three tonnes of petals—who says there is nothing to watch on TV these days?

In its latest TV ad, Sony hopes to wow audiences with the detail and colour of 4K as 8 million vibrantly coloured petals erupt from a volcano and flow down the mountain to a local in Costa Rican village.

The ad, shot on Sony’s revolutionary F55 and F65 professional cameras, captures the dynamic landscape and scenery in all its beauty

Sony also marks the arrival of its 55” and 65” X9 4K televisions.

Gildas Pelliet, Head of Marketing, Sony Europe, also said, “Sony is famous for creating iconic commercials. We wanted to create a visually impressive and artistic advert that best demonstrates what you experience with a Sony 4K TV - 4 times the detail of current Full HD TVs. The ad has a cinema-like experience with pin sharp images and dramatic scenery.”

Many experiments come with a warning, “Don’t try this at home.”

The *Junkyard Jumbotron” comes with the opposite admonition: do it yourself, at home.

The Centre for Future Civic Media, a collaboration between MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies, wrote a programme that lets you take a bunch of random displays and instantly stitch them together into a large, virtual display-- simply by taking a photograph of them.

It works with laptops, smartphones, tablets --- anything that runs a web browser. It also highlights a new way of connecting a large number of heterogenous devices to each other in the field, on an ad-hoc basis.

There’s no apology to Sony for the use of “Jumbotron,” but the Junkyard Jumbotron-- a web tool that makes it really easy to combine a bunch of random displays into a single, large virtual display via the web—is worth taking a look.

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Atomos is now shipping the Spyder calibration tool

Developed in partnership with Swiss-owned Datacolor, the Atomos Spyder gives Samurai Blade one button color calibration normally only found on high end monitors. With Spyder, the Samurai Blade gains the ability to accurately calibrate to the SMPTE Rec 709 color space with a D65 white point with 100 percent gamut and is fully customizable after calibration.

Atomos Spyder features:

• Extreme precision 7 sensor calibration
• USB to LANC serial control unit included for automatic calibration.
• Calibrate to 6500K ITU-Rec709 white point with delta-E better than 2 down to 20 percent grey
• User adjustments of lift, gain and gamma per channel after initial calibration

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