Christie adds a 46” LCD cube to its line with the FHD461-X, a 1920×1080 resolution direct LED-lit LCD that’s specified at 4000:1 contrast ratio and with a brightness of 700 nits (cd/m2).

The bezel on this LCD is only 0.13” (3.4 mm) — top/left — and 0.08” (2.0 mm) — bottom/right. Inputs include two HDCP-compliant HDMI ports, VGA, DisplayPort and DVI.

This is an Energy-Star compliant display that only uses 0.5 watts in standby. It can be mounted horizontally or vertically in a video-wall application.

In addition, the Christie FHD461-X uses a true commercial-grade LCD panel and has an anti-glare coating. One unique feature is that you can control up to 25 panels through single RS232 using Christie’s Video Wall Toolbox software on a remote PC. It’s less than 3.75? deep.

Go Christie FHD461-X

We’re sure it broke a few hearts at Panasonic. Internally there was much support for the plasma display business—but this is a time of hard decisions for Japan’s big brands.

Most other makers already shied away from PDP and Panasonic gave it a heroic effort.

Panasonic will end sales of Plasma TVs and PDP related products for commercial use (such as Interactive Plasma Displays) with the end of their fiscal FY 2014 (March 31st, 2014).

Plasma has fans that will be unhappy but from now on they will have to meet in the internet forums with the Betamax fans, and HD DVD supporters.

Go to the Official Panasonic Statement

The text underneath their logo carries the company’s tagline: Changes for the Better. We hope so.

Mitsubishi Electric withdraws from the front-projection and public display markets, consolidating the division's remaining European display wall business in the Netherlands. Technical support, operating separately from the VIS division, will continue to be provided locally.

Mitsubishi Electric projectors and public display monitors will still be available for purchase until the end of the year while stocks last. All products will remain fully supported with spares and technical support until March 2019.

Yes, it’s from Hollywood-- from the people who created the entertainment industry’s first UltraViolet-based effects and UV lighting in the late 1980's Ultra Vista Systems hopes their next generation of UV signage will provide interior signage for .

The first product in a series of planned products is ISIS 3D (as in Illuminated Suspended Image System 3D), a transparent, 3D look coupled with a light-emanating design. This sign allows for glowing brand names, logos and art to shine in a slim, low voltage, lightweight profile.

Quiet in the auditorium…Can you hear that?

Remember the annoying projector hum? Now you don't have to listen to the projector because Tempest HUSH enclosures can make the room silent.

Tempest lets you safely use the largest large-format projectors in acoustically sensitive environments—or, sometimes more importantly, outside.

For indoors, it’s all about silence: live theatre, digital cinema, meeting rooms, churches, and home theatre.

Cyclone enclosures, for example, are custom built to house a wide range of projectors, from 14,000 to 40,000 ANSI lumens. The new Cyclone HUSH models reduce projector noise to a whisper in auditoriums and educational spaces.

Quantum Materials claims it has a development potentially leading to an era of higher quality, lower cost HDTVs-- Tetrapod Quantum Dots, a high-efficiency display material OEMs can "print" on LCD backplane films.

Quantum dotsAccording to the company Tetrapod Quantum Dots allow for brighter images, larger screens and a wider colour gamuts through the use of quantum dots, nanoscale particles forming the display's pixels.

Christie’s presence at InfoComm EMEA will see the “official” launch of its QuadHD84 flat panel display, a 4K resolution (3840?2160) @ 60Hz flat panel LCD with both computer and video sources.

The display has twice the actual update rate over consumer ultra-high definition (UHD) TVs available on the market today.

The native resolution of the panel is driven by four frame-locked HDMI or DVI sources at 60Hz. Users can quickly connect to high-performance workstations or image processors for greater flexibility.

rAVe USA reports Barco will introduce a series of new products for its corporate audiovisual line, including three new projector families — the Present, the Collaborate and the Impress lines.

The Present line is a series of one-chip DLP projectors ranging in brightness from 5,000 lumens up to 10,000 lumens. They are designed for boardrooms, houses of worship, large venues or meeting rooms. The line offers a white design, can be ceiling mounted or rest on a table top, and the controls offer a simple one-button remote. The brightest model, the PJWU-101B, offering 10,000 ANSI lumens is the brightest one-chip DLP projector on the market, according to Barco.