Panasonic Professional Visual Displays Europe (PVDE) announces 103" and 85" models in their range of full HD 3D plasma ultra-large display panel (PDPs) to complement the world's largest 152" model.

Panasonic lists the latest innovations include:

• An industry-highest native contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1
• A high speed driving technology to achieve the PDP's full moving picture resolution; and a crosstalk reduction technology, a crucial requirement for producing clear and crisp 3D images
• Newly-developed ultra high-speed drive technology Read more...

Already available in Taiwan and soon to be sold elsewhere, Vivitek introduces a short-throw front projector that projects 95".

The 95-inch screen short-throw projector aims at the household, educational and enterprise markets. It supports 3D display and features 3,000 lumens brightness and 2,500:1 contrast ratio.

The company aims to ship 200,000 projectors worldwide in 2010, up from about 100,000 units in 2009. Clients from Europe, America and Asia each account for one-third of its current orders, Vivitek says, adding that it became Read more...

The lobby of the Boréal building in Brussels now holds the first ever white LED screen.

This building (owned by the investment fund Deka-Immobilien Europa) will become the headquarters of the Retail & Private Banking department of BNP Paribas Fortis.

(You can understand how BNP Paribas Fortis would want to start clean with white screen if you followed Fortis Bank's ownership debacle in Belgium.)

The LED screen measures 11m long by 3m high as designated by Conix, the architect. It fits in the lobby blending in to look like Read more...

Digital Projection Inc. (DPI) introduces an integrated suite of image and lens calculators.

With the Calculator Toolbox, users can quickly calculate essential data (image size and throw distance of a projector) given a few basic parameters.

The suite includes other tools and guides intended to demystify the projector selection process (such as the Screen Brightness calculator), as well as to help identify the true long-term cost of any projection system within any application (Cost of Ownership calculator).

What began as a modest Read more...