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Giraffic Technology Speeds Streaming and File Transfer

Israel-based Giraffic was at CES showing off the latest advances to its Adaptive Video Acceleration (AVA) technology and demonstrating how it ...

TSMC Predicts Flat 2017

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) foresees a slow 2017. The foundry predicts a drop of up to 10% QoQ in Q1 ...

Samsung Display Requests Component Price Cuts

Samsung Display is asking supply chaing members to lower component pricing by as much as 30%, as the company aims to ...

Funbox UHD Channel Goes Live

Sony Pictures International (SPI) has added an UltraHD application to the Amazon Fire TV and also made the UltraHD channel on ...

NetRange and Vonetize Collaborate

NetRange, a provider of white label Smart TV solutions, says it has finalised an agreement with VoD services company Vonetize to ...

BMW Takes on Osram OLEDs

Four weeks ago, LG announced that it was supplying OLEDs for Audi’s TT RS coupe. Osram has now joined the same ...

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LG Agrees OLED TV Promotion Deal With Google

by Tom Allen

LG has signed a marketing agreement with Google, which will see the search giant help to promote LG’s OLED TVs on its various platforms, such as YouTube. LG’s Kim Ki-wan (centre left), head of …

Tags:Advertising| Back Panel| Google| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Lightspeed Renews LC-Tec Agreement

by Tom Allen

Lightspeed Design has renewed its multi-year agreement with LC-Tec Displays. The agreement states that LC-Tec’s Polarspeed technology will continue to be used exclusively in DepthQ 3D passive polarisation products for digital cinema, manufactured by …

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sony Selects Quantel for 8k Post-Production

by Tom Allen

Quantel is providing a ‘Pablo Rio’ 8k system to Sony PCL, in Tokyo. The system enables high-resolution editing, colour-correction and finishing for the post-production pipeline. This is the world’s first Pablo Rio 8k installation …

Tags:Back Panel| Japan| Large Display Monitor| NHK| sony| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Five Distributors Fined for Illegal Cartel

by Helen Vince

Five Slovakian distributors have been fined €4.28 million for taking part in an illegal cartel. ABC Data, Asbis, AT Computers, eD’system and SWS Distribution were accused of conspiring to agree to the levy of …

Tags:Distributors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Price Fixing| Slovakia| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Second Apple Watch to House Video Camera

by Tom Allen

‘Sources familiar with the matter’ have said that Apple Watch 2 will be launched in 2016, with a video camera supporting Face Time. Rumours also say that Apple will integrate a new chipset that …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Medion Reaches Online Retailers

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Medion (owned by Lenovo) has said that it wants to extend distribution of its smartphone line, with online retailers such as Amazon and Cyberport. Retailers can now take and sell smartphones from the …

Tags:Distribution| Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Apple Could Eliminate Home Button With New Chip

by Tom Allen

Apple is developing a touch and display driver integration (TDDI) single-chip solution for its iPhones, say Asian sources. The solution, being developed inside Apple, will be used in future iPhone designs, with ultra-thin bezels. …

Tags:Apple| Fingerprint Recognition| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Security| Vol 22 - Issue 26

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 26

by Tom Allen

Apple has discontinued the original iPad Mini – the last iOS device that the company made without a retina display. Densitron Displays and ‘Papirus’ have created an electrophoretic display for the Raspberry Pi, called …

Tags:Apple| ePaper| iPad| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Vodafone Lowers Cost of Premium Features

by Tom Allen

UK mobile operator Vodafone has released an own-brand Android smartphone, which competes with rivals with an ultra-low price point for its size. The Smart Ultra 6 is a 5.5″ smartphone with 1920 x 1080 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Smartphones| UK (United Kingdom)| Vodafone| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Rumour: HTC’s M9+ Coming to Europe

by Tom Allen

An HTC developer, known as LlabTooFeR, sent a tweet this month claiming that a larger version of HTC’s One M9 would go on sale in Europe in Q3. The One M9+ will be sold …

Tags:Europe| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Set Makers Request Panel Concessions

by Tom Allen

IHS DisplaySearch has released panel data for June, when prices continued to fall. Market demand for notebooks is still weak. Consumers are deferring purchases, preferring to wait for Windows 10 and Intel’s Skylake chips. …

Tags:IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Pricing| Vol 22 - Issue 26

CPT’s G6 Fab to Focus on ‘Niche’ Products

by Milos Pavlovic

A CPT subsidiary, CPT Technology, expects to begin construction of new G6 facilities in Fujian, China in Q3’15. Mass-production will begin in the second half of 2017. The factory will produce small-to-medium-size panels, as …

Tags:China| CPT| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 26