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Aixtron Delists from NASDAQ

Struggling German firm Aixtron has had several setbacks recently. Last May it reached agreement with Germany-based GCI, owned by Chinese investment ...

Barco Residential Shows HDR Demo

Barco Residential highlighted HDR projection using its high-end Thor projector, which is RGB laser-based. The company also announced a partnership with ...

Rumour: HTC Develops ‘Revolutionary’ Camera Tech

Rumours have started concerning HTC’s next flagship phone, which CEO Cher Wang has said will be released in October. According to ...

Consumer Volume will Win in A/R

Most of my week has been taken up with writing and editing our SID special report, which is a substantial one. ...

Microsoft Band – The First Wearable from Microsoft

Wearable – There are plenty of new entries in the wearable market these days, however when a major company like Microsoft announces ...

Telus adds Netflix 4K to Optik TV

Telus of Vancouver, BC, Canada, said that it is releasing the Netflix app on its Optik TV 4K set top boxes, ...

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Sony Lowers Shipment Target in 2015

by Tom Allen

Sony Mobile plans to ship as many as 38 million smartphones in the 2015 fiscal year (April 2015 – March 2016), according to sources in the handset supply chain. The new figure is slightly …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Media Broadcast’s -T2 Business Plan is Approved

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Bundeskartellamt, an anti-monopoly regulator, has approved Media Broadcast’s business model for use with its DVB-T2 network. The company will offer pay services from commercial broadcasters in HD.

Tags:DVB-T & T2| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Pete Putnam

Putman: UltraHD Spells End of 1920 x 1080 Sets

by Tom Allen

Pete Putman of HDTV Expert has predicted that the production of ‘ordinary’ (1920 x 1080) TV screens will cease by the end of 2016/2017. Quoted in the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers’ …

Tags:4k| HDTV| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| TV Set Market| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Russia Carries Weight in East Europe Pay-TV Market

by Tom Allen

Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will climb 45% from 2010 ($5 million) to 2020 ($7.3 million), according to a forecast by Digital TV Research. However, most of that increase has already taken place and …

Tags:Cable| Europe| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Satellite| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

YouTube and Facebook Supporting 360-Degree Video

by Chris Chinnock

360-degree videos are becoming more popular as content for virtual reality headsets, but they can also be viewed on a smartphone or tablet. Just swivel your head or mobile device side-to-side or up/down to …

Tags:Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Toshiba Awarded Prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award

by Helen Vince

Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS), a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, today announced it has been awarded with a Red Dot Award for product design for two of its products, the Toshiba Chromebook 2and …

Tags:Awards| Chromebooks| toshiba

Is Samsung Looking at a Change in its OLED TV Plans?

by Bob Raikes

This week, we’ve seen rumours from Korea that Samsung may be getting back into the OLED TV business by adopting the “White OLED with colour filter” approach that was developed by Kodak and is …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 14| WOLED (White OLED)

Kickstarter Coming for Consumer Holographic Displays

by Tom Allen

A US-based company called Holographic Optical Technologies (HOT) will soon begin a Kickstarter campaign, aiming to bring (static) holographic displays to consumers. HOT’s experience comes from holographic medical displays. It will begin its new …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 14

CJ Group Debuts Panoramic Cinema in Vegas

by Tom Allen

ScreenX (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 40) was developed by South Korea’s CJ CGV in 2012. It presents cinema-goers with a 270° panoramic view; as well as the front screen, images are projected onto …

Tags:3D Cinema| Back Panel| Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Panoramic Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 14