Schneider-Kreuznach has expanded its range of anamorphic lenses for home cinema. With the new CDA 1.33x MF Première lens, the increasingly popular Cinemascope image format (2.35:1) can now be displayed with reportedly no distortion using any high-end 16:9 home cinema projector. The Première anamorphic lens enables full HD resolution, even in Cinemascope format, and eliminates letterboxing. The MF Première lens has a multilayer antireflection... 

The new Cinema 11v is a versatile high definition video scaler/switcher/processor designed to deliver image quality with powerful digital video processing. The Cinema 11v is based on the Genesis FLI30436 video processing chip. The FLI30436 chip offers advanced, dual-channel applications of Picture-in-Picture (PIP) and Picture-by-Picture (PBP). Two video decoders with 3D comb filters and two channels of DCDi processing provide the picture for... 

Runco, a provider of video solutions for the luxury home, has announced the launch of its Digital Cinema Concierge, exclusively available for certified Runco dealers. This new offering enables Runco dealers to provide their clients with complete projection and media server systems, custom-engineered and built to specifications to meet the exact needs of each individual client and certified to meet the standards of Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI).... 

Mitsubishi Electric’s Presentation Products Division has announced two new wide-screen format projectors targeting cost-conscious customers looking for classroom or meeting room projectors. Mitsubishi’s EW230U-ST (Short Throw) and EX270U WXGA projectors are 3D-ready and produce high-quality, wide-XGA images at competitive prices. “It’s important that everyone’s dollar goes a little farther these days,” said Wayne... 

Sony Electronics has announced that it will showcase its 3D solutions at CEA Line Shows, June 22-23, 2010 in New York. Sony’s exhibit will include live 3D feeds of matches from the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, which is being produced with Sony’s professional 3D broadcast technology. Each day at 2 p.m. ET, Sony 3D televisions at the CEA Line Shows will offer live feeds from the FIFA World Cup in South Africa via the new ESPN 3D... 

– Ultra short-focus projectors are 3D ready – 80-inch image projected from shortest throw distance available today of only 12.6 inches – Compact design reduces chassis size to half of conventional projectors – Can be installed with either vertical or horizontal orientation – PDG-DWL2500 has a wide native resolution (1280×800; 16:10 aspect ratio) SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO), subsidiary of SANYO Electric... 

You’ve heard me take Silicon Image out to the woodshed more than once about their lack of conformity or upgradability and I am likely not done with them as they just launched HDMI 1.4a, but I am about to tee off on another topic – 3D glasses. I know 3D is the “It” technology right now and that the best HDTVs on store shelves that are being installed by today’s top integrators are also 3D capable, but I am just not... 

Sony Corporation (‘Sony’) has announced that it developed a super-flexible 80 μm-thick 4.1-in 121 ppi OTFT(1)-driven full color OLED display which can be wrapped around a thin cylinder. To create the display, Sony developed OTFTs with an original organic semiconductor material (a PXX derivative) with eight times(2) the current modulation of conventional OTFTs. This was achieved due to the development of integration technologies of... 

Runco, a provider of luxury video solutions, announces its FrameGallery and FrameGallery with SilverSheen custom framing options. FrameGallery allows unique custom framing of Runco Crystal Portfolio (CX) LCD flat panel displays. With different frame options to choose from, it has never been easier to make a flat panel display complement the unique aesthetic of any room’s decor. Six unique frame options and finishes are available, ranging... 

On a recent trip to Northern California’s Napa Valley I was fortunate enough to spend some time with the founders of SIM2 as well as legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Francis Ford Coppola, as you probably already know, has directed some of the most influential films in the history of film. What you may not be aware of is the fact that he is a huge proponent of digital cinema, both on set and in exhibition. I found myself in the... 

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to be a guest at a SIM2 press event in Northern California’s Napa Valley. The event was held at Francis Ford Coppola’s Rubicon Estate, a gorgeous 1,500 plus acre ranch nestled in the mountains of the Napa Valley. The Rubicon Estate has a storied history dating back to the mid to late 1800’s and is one of the few, if not the only, vineyards in Napa Valley still making wine the old fashioned... 

SANYO just announced the introduction of the PLV-Z4000, a high-performance 120 Hz Full HD 3 LCD front projector with 1080p24 capability for a high performance home theater and HD video experience. With SANYO’s exclusive TopazReal HD system, the projector produces very good image quality and has a 3D color management system that enables excellent color accuracy. Through dual HDMI 1.3b inputs, it is Deep Color and x.v.Color capable. Rated... 

In 2005, SIM2 introduced the C3X, the custom home cinema industry’s first compact three-chip DLP-based projection system. Adding value to their lineup, SIM2 just announced a five-year lamp warranty on their award-winning Grand Cinema™ C3X LUMIS and C3X LUMIS HOST Reference models for clients who purchased the projector from an authorized dealer.  Read More →

Runco now offers its ColourPalette™ custom color options on its full product line of home theater projectors*, LCD flat panel displays and its plasma displays. In an ongoing effort to support Runco’s design and architecture initiative, Runco is offering a palette of 13 distinctive colors as well as a customization program that allows homeowners or their designers to custom match virtually any color sample, including fabric, wallpaper,... 

Literally adding a new dimension to the appreciation of anatomical research, Norway’s projectiondesign has supplied its F10 AS3D active stereo 3D DLP® projector to present the work connected with the worldwide Blue Brain Project (BBP).

The presentation was given earlier this year by the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) in Spain to promote its new BioTech initiative, which is based at the university’s Montegancedo campus...