Portrait Displays Announces Pivot Pro Software Bundle with NEC Technologies' New GT950 Projector - The World's First Projector to Allow either Portrait or Landscape View.Business Editors/Technology Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2002 Portrait Displays, Inc., a global leader in visual enhancement software products for computer displays, announced its Pivot(R) Pro software is bundled with NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Technologies, Inc.'s, new GT950 desktop/fixed-installation projector. As a result, the GT950 is the first projector capable of either landscape (horizontal) or portrait (vertical) orientations. The GT950 has a unique ability -- to be flipped on its side for viewing content that is designed for portrait orientation. When making a presentation, web pages, charts, and balance sheets are just a few of the documents that are best viewed in full-page, portrait orientation. Pivot Pro software enables any laptop Same as laptop computer. laptop - portable computer or desktop PC, running Windows(R) 95 or later, to rotate the screen image to full-page portrait orientation, allowing the projected contents to be correctly displayed to the audience. "Projectors have long been used in board rooms and sales presentations, but none have offered the ability to project in full-page, portrait orientation. Until now, presenters needed to scroll To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window. Scrolling implies continuous and smooth movement, a line, character or pixel at a time, as if the data were on a paper scroll being rolled behind the screen. See auto scroll. the data for the audience. The GT950 solves this problem by operating in either full-page portrait or landscape orientation to project the content the way it was meant to be seen," said J. Michael James, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Portrait Displays, Inc. "Pivot Pro software provides GT950 users with unsurpassed projection flexibility," explained Don Fasick, Projector Product Manager for NEC Technologies, Visual Systems. "The vertical orientation Vertical orientation is a 3:4 aspect ratio, rotated 90 degrees from a NTSC television's standard 4:3 aspect ratio. It has been used primarily for arcade games (especially during the early 1980s) and for art projects, including a music video by The Shamen. allows customers in education, corporate, or government markets to be more dynamic with their presentation content while enabling the projector to fit in narrow spaces such as on a shelf or in a cabinet." About Portrait Displays, Inc. Portrait Displays, Inc., is the sole developer and owner of Pivot(R) Technology rotation software and LiquidView(TM) scaling software. Pivot(R) is used to enable alternative viewing orientations of 90 and 270 degrees (portrait mode Portrait mode and landscape mode refer to the orientation of text (and pictures) on a printed page. (The paper must be a rectangle, however in practice square sheets are hardly ever used. ) and 180 degrees (presentation mode), as well as traditional landscape orientation on PC displays. LiquidView(TM) software enables users to enlarge TO ENLARGE. To extend; as, to enlarge a rule to plead, is to extend the time during which a defendant may plead. To enlarge, means also to set at liberty; as, the prisoner was enlarged on giving bail. the high-visibility areas of their display for easier viewing and more productive user-interface navigation. Portrait Displays, Inc., is a private California corporation with headquarters in Pleasanton, California Pleasanton, nicknamed "P-town"<ref name="">Ptown (Pleasanton) Bike Advocates Meeting, East Bay Bicycle Coalition website, August 14, 2007, retrieved August 17, 2007, is a city in Alameda County, California and was incorporated in 1894. ; representatives in Taiwan, and Korea; and a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. in Tokyo, Japan: Portrait Displays K.K. Information is available at: www.portrait.com and at www.portrait.co.jp The suggested retail price of the GT950 is $7,295. For more information about the GT950, go to www.nectech.com. NEC Technologies Visual Systems markets, sells and supports unlimited large-screen presentation solutions including DLP- and LCD-based field, facility, and large-venue projection systems as well as PlasmaSync(R) plasma monitors designed specifically for the unique needs of the public-display and multimedia-presentation environments. NEC Technologies, Inc., is an affiliate of NEC Corporation. |
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