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Forth Receives ISO Accreditation

by Tom Allen

Forth Dimension Displays has received ISO13485 certification for the design and manufacture of LCD microdisplays for medical devices.

Lenovo Chooses Broadwell for Education Upgrades

by Tom Allen

An update to Lenovo’s Thinkpad 11e Chromebook series was announced at BETT. The device is available as a notebook or a convertible, with stand, laptop, tent and tablet modes. Optionally, the Thinkpad supports the …

Panel Mix Shifts at Sharp

by Tom Allen

Sharp has cut LCD panel production for smartphones and tablets, due to weak sales to Chinese makers, sources have told The Japan Times. The output of IGZO panels at the company’s Kameyama No. 2 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 22 - Issue 05

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Specs are Great but is it too Late?

by Tom Allen

Victor Matsuda, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, has discussed the upcoming UltraHD Blu-ray standard and what it will offer over streaming video. Because physical media has a much greater bandwidth than most internet …

Tags:Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 04

ZVEI Predicts Low Growth in Germany

by Tom Allen

Klaus Mittelbach, CEO of Germany’s ZVEI trade association, has predicted that sales of electrical goods in the country will rise 0.5% this year, to almost €174 billion. Results from last year’s sales are still being …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Vehicle Panels to Rise With JDI

by Tom Allen

To expand vehicle panel module production, Japan Display will invest NT$800 million ($25.5 million) into Taiwan-based subsidiary Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics. Sources in Asia said that the investment should raise Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics’s monthly substrate production to 450,000 by …

Tags:Automotive| Investment| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Acer to Double Smartphone Shipments

by Tom Allen

According to CEO John Chen, Acer plans to double its smartphone shipments this year, to about 10 million units. The company’s smartphones are now available in 53 countries worldwide.

Tags:Acer| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Colombia Passes 8 Million TV Subs – Unofficially

by Tom Allen

The BB Business Bureau of Argentina estimates that there were almost 8.1 million pay-TV subscribers in Colombia at the end of 2014, up 4.3% YoY. Official figures from the Autoridad Nacional de Television put the …

IPTV Continues to Lead in Montenegro

by Tom Allen

At the end of 2014 digital TV subscribers in Montenegro, across all platforms, fell 0.8% (1,242) QoQ, but were up 3.8% (5,692) YoY. The total subscriber base was 154,393, representing 79.26% of households. IPTV …

New Google Play Highlights Software Focus

by Tom Allen

The Google stand was, naturally, dominated by Chromebooks – Google’s low-cost notebook product that is seeing rising adoption in the education market. However, the main news was Google Play for Education (GPE): an initiative …

Pay-TV and VoD Fails to Compensate for Falling AV

by Tom Allen

The recently-published 20th edition of the European Audiovisual Observatory’s Yearbook shows that Europe’s AV sector remained flat for a second year in 2013, despite the rise of VoD services that year. For the third …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

NEC’s LCD Models Enjoy Upgrade

by Tom Allen

Four new models have enhanced NEC’s UM series of ultra-short-throw 3LCD projectors. The UM301W, UM301X, UM351W and UM361X are said to offer a higher performance than previous UM-series models, as well as a lower cost …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| NEC| Vol 22 - Issue 04