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Juniper Predicts Four-Fold Automotive HUD Increase

by Tom Allen

Juniper Research predicts that the automotive HUD market will exceed 16 million installed units worldwide by 2021. Increasing HUD adoption in mass-market vehicles will drive the forecast four-fold growth, with a boost from aftermarket …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 27

PC Market “Shows Some Signs of Improving”

by Tom Allen

Worldwide PC shipments reached 64.3 million units in Q2’16, down 5.2% YoY – the seventh consecutive quarter of declines, says Gartner. However, the market is showing some signs of improvement. Weakening local currencies against …

Asus is Cautious About Q3

by Tom Allen

Asus’s revenues were up 33% MoM and 2% YoY in June, to NT$42.4 billion ($1.3 billion). However, total Q2 revenues were down 14.6% QoQ and 5% YoT, at NT$93.9 billion ($2.9 billion). Asus says …

Tags:Asus| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 27

MSI Rises in June

by Tom Allen

MSI’s June revenues totalled NT$8.7 billion ($270.7 million), rising 22.6% MoM and 25.6% YoY. The firm has made NT$46.1 billion ($1.4 billion) in the January-June period, up 19.2% YoY.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MSI| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Brightsign Drives Non-Standard Wall

by Tom Allen

Brightsign media players are being used to drive a curved outdoor video wall, which forms the frontage of the King’s Walk shopping centre in Reading in the UK. Project Audio Visual installed the LED …

Tags:Brightsign| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Peerless Slims Mount for Signage

by Tom Allen

Peerless-AV has developed a new universal mounting kit for 46″ – 55″ displays in public areas. The unit (DS-VW655-2×2) features a dual-frame design and can be used to create a 2×2 video wall. The …

Tags:Display Mounts| Large Display Monitor| Peerless AV| Video Walls| Vol 23 - Issue 27

A New OLED Display Testing Service

by Tom Allen

OLED-Info and Ray Soneira’s DisplayMate have co-launched a new OLED display evaluation service. Services offered include measuring and checking a display’s objective performance and specifications in a laboratory setting; improving and optimising performance; itemising …

German Firms Move to OLED

by Tom Allen

Premium TV company Loewe, now closely allied with China’s Hisense, has produced its first OLED set: the Bild 7 (due to its 7mm thickness). It is part of a new range called VantaVision. When …

Tags:Germany| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Foxconn Snaps Up Microsoft Mobile Plant

by Tom Allen

Chief Expertise, a Foxconn subsidiary, has purchased 100% of Microsoft Mobile (Vietnam), for VND492 billion ($22 million). The company plans to produce mainly feature phones at the facility in Bac Ninh, according to a …

Tags:APAC| Foxconn (Honhai)| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Moab Moves Into Solar TV

by Tom Allen

A company called Moab Power is designing TVs for countries where power supplies are only intermittent. The company’s normal focus is on addressing basic power and lighting needs in developing regions. The Solar TVs, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Power Supplies| Vol 23 - Issue 27

AV Stumpfl Celebrates Norway’s Olympic History

by Tom Allen

AV Stumpfl’s Wings Engine Raw media servers and Wings Vioso calibration software have been used to resurrect Norway’s Olympic past in the Norwegian Olympic Museum. Opened in February, the Museum features the ‘Lysgaardsbakkene’ (‘Jump …

Acer’s X3 Focuses on Security

by Tom Allen

Acer’s new TravelMate X359 notebook, the first in the X3 series, is designed for portability. It is 14″, weighing 1.5kg and measuring 18mm thick. Intended for professional users, the notebook uses a 6th generation …