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Broadcasting Live Events in UHD Needs to be Addressed

by Helen Vince

The SMPTE has published an interesting article on the debate about the broadcast industry’s leap forward into Ultra High Definition, saying that there now needs to be a discussion about the front end of …

Tags:Broadcast| SMPTE| UltraHD

CPT’s August Sales Up 15% MoM

by Helen Vince

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) saw sales in August increase 15.6% from July to NT$4 billion ($123.5 million), though this was 11% lower than August 2014. CPT’s cumulative sales so far this year reached NT$32.2 …

Tags:CPT| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Hannstar’s Sales & Shipments Declined in August

by Helen Vince

Hannstar Display saw sales and panel shipments fall in August, both month on month and year on year. Sales for the month of NT$1.3 billion ($40.1 million) were 5% lower than July and 27.2% …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

AUO’s August Sales Dip 14% YoY

by Helen Vince

AU Optronics (AUO) reported an 11.3% month on month increase in sales in August to NT$30.5 billion ($938.1 million), though this was 14.1% down on August 2014. Sales for the first eight months of …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Amazon to Acquire Elemental Technologies

by Helen Vince

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reached an agreement to acquire Elemental Technologies, a US-based supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to AWS, …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Emagin to Raise $4.5 Million

by Helen Vince

Emagin is to raise $4.5 million through the sale of shares, and will use the proceeds for “general corporate purposes, including R&D, sales and marketing, and working capital”. The company has entered into an …

Tags:eMagin| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

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Samsung Takes Over Austrian Metro

by Helen Vince

Samsung took over the entire 109 DOOH screens in Vienna’s Stephansplatz metro station for own week at the beginning of this month, to promote its new Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones. The station deploys 32″ …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 36

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Huawei’s Smartphone Shipments to Break 100 Million Units in 2015

by Helen Vince

According to a new report from Taiwan’s Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), Huawei outperformed the rest of the smartphone market in Q2, selling 28.2 million smartphones, up 54.9% from Q1. MIC believes that …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Freeview Play Set for October Launch

by Helen Vince

Freeview Play is set to launch in October on TVs from Panasonic, Humax, Vestel and Manhattan TV. Guy North, managing director of Freeview, said: “We believe that Freeview Play is set to become the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Smart TV| Vol 22 - Issue 36

TPK Sees August Sales Rise

by Helen Vince

TPK Holding saw sales in August rise 23.9% sequentially and 12.1% year on year to NT$11.8 billion ($362.3 million), bringing sales so far this year to NT$74 billion ($2.3 billion). The company has said …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TPK| Vol 22 - Issue 36

US FCC Grants Licence for ATSC 3.0 Trial

by Helen Vince

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a temporary licence to One Media, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Coherent Logix, to conduct a trial of the ATSC 3.0 standard in …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Eyevis Slim Cube Technology Chosen for Traffic Control Project

by Helen Vince

AV company Electrosonic has selected Eyevis’ slim cube technology for a new traffic control centre in the UK. Eyevis is supplying its LED illuminated DLP 50″ HD Slim Cube rear projection system, to replace …

Tags:Back Panel| Eyevis| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36