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European Cable Sees Digital TV Growth

by Alan Spencer

The European cable industry revenues rose 4.6% year-on-year, according to IHS statistics released by Cable Europe. Revenue growth for broadband Internet rose 7.5%, for TV it rose 3.7% and for telephony it rose 2.1%. …

Tags:broadband| Cable| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10

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Positive Huawei P10 Review by DxOMark

by Alan Spencer

Huawei’s P10 phone was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona (Huawei Promotes Dual Cameras – Shows Watch 2). DxOMark’s engineers tested the phone’s camera and gave it an overall DxOMark Mobile …

Tags:Cameras| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Sumitomo to Open New Factory for Curved OLED Displays

by Alan Spencer

A report in the Nikkei Asian Review suggests that Sumitomo Chemical intends to triple its manufacturing capacity to over 100 million curved OLED displays by setting up a new factory in Korea. The total …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Sumitomo| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 09

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GCC Mobile Market Rebounds in Q4 2016

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, the Gulf Cooperation Council region’s smartphone shipments in Q4 2016 were 5.98 million units, up 7.7% on quarter three. Prior to this the GCC suffered three consecutive quarter-on-quarter declines from Q1 …

Tags:IDC| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 09

MediaTek’s Revenues for January Fall to 12-Month Low

by Alan Spencer

Consolidated revenues for MediaTek fell last month to a 12-month low of $547.2 million. Seasonal factors were given as the reason, as well as the strong US dollar. According to market watchers, It is …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

MTV Finland to Launch New Premium OTT Service

by Alan Spencer

Norigin Media is to build smart-TV applications on Samsung and LG Connected TVs for MTV Oy, the Finnish Media and TV company. MTV plans to launch a new premium TV streaming services using these …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Nordics| Samsung| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Norwegian Municipality Installs 224 Sony Bravia Displays

by Alan Spencer

The Norwegian municipality of Bærum has installed 224 Sony Bravia displays across 14 schools in the district in order to establish a modernised digital learning environment for its students. According to a spokesman from …

Tags:Back Panel| Education| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 09

BOE Takes First Place in Large LCD Shipments

by Alan Spencer

According to IHS Markit’s market tracker, China’s display maker, BOE has taken the top position for large TFT-LCD display unit shipments in January 2017. BOE took a total share of 22.3% in unit shipments …

Tags:BOE| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Vol 24 - Issue 09

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Acer Again Leads the Worldwide Chromebook Market

by Alan Spencer

According to Gartner, quoted by Acer, last year the worldwide Chromebook market was led by Acer with 28% of the market and with a 33% year-on-year growth. Acer was also the worldwide leader in …

Tags:Acer| Chromebooks| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Workstation Market Shipment Sets Record in 4Q16

by Alan Spencer

According to the JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for 4Q16, the worldwide market for workstations grew at 20.1% year on year with total shipments of around 1.23 million units and with revenue growth of …

Tags:HP Inc| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 24 - Issue 09

TVkey Launched in Germany on HD+

by Alan Spencer

Nagra and Samsung Electronics have announced the first launch of direct-to-TV solution, TVkey, by German satellite operator HD+. TVkey allows subscribers to access 4K and HDR programming directly on their TV sets without the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Security| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 09