Four years after initial product launch, Christie takes another step forward in near seamless video walls by offering a new screen option: the Christie MicroTiles S310 screen.

Featuring the same optical performance and construction as the S300, the Christie MicroTiles S310 screen is slightly larger and features 0.7-millimetre seams (compared to 1.3-millimetre seams for the S300).

The S310 operating temperature range is 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). Just like the S300 screen option, the Christie MicroTiles S310 screen delivers excellent contrast with deeper blacks and image uniformity in demanding indoor high ambient light environments.

Sony updates 11 of its education and corporate projectors, building on its offering to the European market. The D-Series, E-Series and S-Series have been refreshed.

Sony’s latest Interactive Ultra Short Throw S Series projectors incorporate new integration capabilities. Auto calibration, teaching features, video capture and video conferencing abilities provide the presenter with greater options to make their presentation more interactive.

In addition, all new released projectors across the ranges now have wireless communication capabilities with tablets and smartphones, via the Pixelworks’ VueMagic Mobile Presenter application. VueMagic Mobile Presenter enables users to make presentations or share content using most mobile and tablet devices with iOS version 5.1.1 or Android (from October). Presentations can be run off tablet and smartphone devices of all sizes by teachers, students and other audiences.

Mitsubishi Electric upgrades its premium 8000 Series installation projectors, designed for high-end installations and large venue applications.

With models available from XGA to WUXGA, the latest generation improves brightness up to 8500 ANSI lumens, adds a 2800:1 contrast ratio and some additional options such as custom colour wheels (allows performance to be further fine-tuned to particular applications).

The company says the specification list of the 8000 Series is the most comprehensive of any projector ever offered by Mitsubishi Electric, including several patented technologies such as an image processing algorithm that can extrapolate high-definition data missing from source material.

Nick Rogers, CEO of PMA Research says, “China is now the largest projector market in the world, overtaking USA in the last year — with annual sales of 1.8 million units vs. annual sales of 1.6 million units in the United States.”

“In 2013Q2 GDP rose by ‘only’ 7.5% due to control of investment by the Chinese government. In addition, the education procurement process began in Q2 as well, and large volume shipments are expected in 2013Q3 and beyond. Finally, the digital cinema market is exploding in China, and the home theater and pico and personal markets are expected to show gains in the next year as well.”

PMA Research has been expanding its coverage of the projector market in China, and recently hired Jennie Yi to open PMA’s Beijing office. The new report on China will be included as an ad hoc offering to clients who subscribe to PMA’s Worldwide Industry Service family of reports (and is also available as a stand-alone report).

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The Atomos Samurai Blade is a 1280?720 touchscreen that allows for internal recording of 10-bit images shot with HD/SDI-output cameras — straight from the camera sensor directly to HDD or SSD drives, captured using Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD codecs.

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Watch The Video We Shot of the Atomos Samurai Blade at InfoComm

The Christie D4K3560 is a 35,000 lumen, native 4K (4096?2160) resolution projector that can handle 4K resolution material at 60Hz – the only projector that can.

Nearly every 4K demo on the InfoComm 2013 show floor was displaying 4K at 30Hz.

Watch rAVe’sInfoComm Interview on Christie D4K3560

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The 65” NEC E654 is an LED direct-lit, commercial-grade display that’s native 1920?1080 and has the best bezel design of any commercial-grade LCD monitor on the market, making it perfect for retail digital signage applications.

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Watch Video of 65” NEC E654 at InfoComm

NEC had this product sort of hidden in its booth since it’s not shipping until next year.

The X841SR is an 84" 4K (3840x2160) that can be displayed in portrait or landscape and garners a brightness spec of 700 nits.

It’s an LED backlit LCD display and it simply looked amazing.

Watch Video of NEC X841SR at InfoComm