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PTC and Unity Announce Strategic Collaboration

by Bob Raikes

PTC and Unity Technologies said that they would collaborate on AR development to integrate PTC’s Vuforia AR platform with Unity’s game and experience development platform. The aim is to make content creation quicker and …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Atlona Introduces Flagship 4K Matrix

by Bob Raikes

Atlona has added a new eight-input, four-output 4K HDMI and HDBaseT switcher designed for applications including videoconferencing, multi-screen presentations, and divisible room installations often specified for classroom, corporate or hospitality environments. The new matrix …

Tags:HDBaseT| Large Display Monitor| Switchers| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Smartphones Not Just From Apple & Samsung

by Bob Raikes

The data website, Statista has compiled IDC’s data on smartphones to create a chart that shows how the smartphone market is slowly becoming less and less about Samsung and Apple. The companies have been …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Ultra HD first for Romania

by Bob Raikes

The Funbox UltraHD channel is now available on the Ines IPTV service in Romania and supported through GPON (passive optical networking).

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Comcast to launch Netflix on X1

by Bob Raikes

Comcast has confirmed that the Netflix service will be available on its X1 devices across the US. Netflix content will be fully integrated into Xfinity On Demand. “The Netflix integration into the X1 platform …

Tags:Cable| Comcast| Large Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Vimeo To Enter SVOD Market

by Bob Raikes

Vimeo has said that it plans to launch a subscription service. Up to now, Vimeo has relied on payments from content providers as the site doesn’t use advertising (which is why we chose it …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Small LCD Volumes to Shrink

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research believes that global shipments of small- to medium-size panels will decrease from 2.647 billion units in 2017 to 2.189 billion units in 2021 or a CAGR of negative 4.6%. This will be …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Leader Adds HDR Support to Waveform Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Leader Instruments showed its new high-dynamic-range (HDR) features for our LV5490 4K waveform monitor and LV7390 4K upgradeable rasterizer. The LV5490SER07 HDR option for the LV5490 now enables this instrument to measure both 4K …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Test Equipment| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Liberty Grows in CEE in Q3

by Bob Raikes

In its quarterly report, Liberty Global, which recently bought Multimedia Polska (Liberty Global Acquires Multimedia in Poland) did well in Eastern Europe, with 98,000 new customers in Q3, 53,000 in Hungary, Slovakia and the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Liberty Global| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 23 - Issue 44

PlayStation Vue Now in Browsers

by Bob Raikes

Sony has now made the Playstation Vue OTT video service available on PC & Mac browsers in addition to Android TVs. (PlayStation Vue Available on Android TVs & PCs?

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| PlayStation| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Apple Drops LG Monitor Prices by 25%

by Bob Raikes

Apple and LG have reduced the prices of the new ‘UltraFine’ Thunderbolt monitors that were launched along with the new MacBook Pro. Apple had come in for quite a lot of criticism because it …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Thunderbolt| Vol 23 - Issue 44

hannstar

HannStar Results 04/11/2016

by Bob Raikes

HannStar Display announced Q3 FY16 consolidated sales of NT$6.96 bn ($220.6 mn) and a net profit of NT$2.35 bn ($74.5 mn) resulting in a very healthy net profit margin of 34%. These results marked …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 44