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Qualcomm Focuses on LTE Broadcast

Qualcomm was at the show to talk about LTE broadcast rather than making any product or technology announcements. First the company ...

Nexus Player Offers Gaming Continuity

Google has unveiled the first Android TV (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 40) product: a streaming media player for films, music ...

Smaller Zenfone Variant Appears in China

A new smartphone, rumoured to be the Zenfone 3, has appeared at China’s TENAA certification centre. The phone (model number: Asus ...

VOD Growing to 50%+ in Three Years

Click for higher resolutionGfK said that 16% of the viewing population* have multiple SVOD (subscription video-on-demand) services in their homes, up ...

Analogix, GRL Expand The SlimPort Adopters Program to Include USB Type-C

Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Granite River Labs (GRL) today announced the expansion of the SlimPort® Adopters Program (SAP?) to include the ...

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 40

Inneos said at the Ceatec show that it has developed a consumer-ready optical extender capable of delivering HDMI 4K60, 4:4:4 color ...

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Samsung Will Triple Edge Production

by Tom Allen

ET News of Korea claims that, following successful pre-orders (Samsung Reaches Pre-Order Record), Samsung wants to as much as triple planned production of the Galaxy S6 Edge. Samsung Display is currently capable of producing …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Production| Production Capacity| Samsung| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Samsung Will Use WRGB in OLED TV Return, Says ET News

by Tom Allen

Samsung Display is resuming its efforts in the OLED TV market – according to Korea’s ET News. The source says that SDC is taking up OLED TV panel production once more, using a different …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Licensing| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Patents| Production| Samsung| Samsung Display| TV Set Market| Vol 22 - Issue 14| wrgb

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 14

by Tom Allen

Blackberry‘s Leap smartphone (Blackberry Shows new Smartphone and Prototype with Curved AMOLED Display) can now be pre-ordered in the UK, USA, France and Germany; residents of Canada have been told to ‘stay tuned’, so …

Tags:BlackBerry| China| France| Germany| HTC| LCD Modules| LG Electronics (LGE)| Microsoft| Mitsubishi| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Samsung| Smartphones| Smartwatches| tablets| UK (United Kingdom)| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 14| Xiaomi

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LCD Media Chooses Broadsign for Danish Stores

by Helen Vince

Scandinavian provider of digital in-store solutions, LCD Media, has chosen Broadsign’s digital signage software platform for retail initiatives in 300 of Denmark’s top retail stores. Installations consist of video walls and LCD displays ranging …

Tags:Broadsign| Large Display Monitor| Nordics| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Eastern Zone Keeps CEE PCs Negative

by Tom Allen

Central and Eastern Europe PC shipments exceeded 18.5 million units last year, falling 14% YoY, says IDC. 2014 was the second year of contraction, as the region’s market was limited by currency fluctuations and …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Europe| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

LG Opens New Vietnam Facility

by Vanessa Browning

LG Electronics has completed construction of its latest production facility in Vietnam which will be used to manufacture TVs, mobile phones and car infotainment systems for both its domestic and overseas markets. The new …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Intel, Samsung Rumoured to Be on Acquisition Trail

by Vanessa Browning

At the end of last week, there were murmurings that both Intel and Samsung were mulling options for acquiring rival chip firms, with Intel linked to Altera and Samsung linked with AMD. Both Intel …

Tags:AMD| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Blackberry Result 01/04/2015

by Helen Vince

Blackberry Limited has released its fourth quarter and full year results, posting a net profit in Q4 of $28 million on turnover of $660 million, which compares with a net loss in the final …

Tags:BlackBerry| Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 14

BBC Looks to HDR UltraHD

by Tom Allen

The BBC’s head of innovation and standards, Richard Salmon, has said that he hopes to have ITU standards for UltraHD HDR “by [the] middle of this year”. Salmon made the comment at a recent …

Tags:4k| BBC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Red Button Rebranded

by Tom Allen

The BBC’s Connected Red Button service will be rebranded to ‘Red Button+’ this month, with new features launched, such as picture-in-picture browsing of news, weather and video highlights. The service will be available on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

DTG Updates UK’s D-Book for 2015

by Tom Allen

The UK’s Digital Television Group has launched the D-Book 8. The new version provides the DTT industry with the tools to support Freeview Play and manage the clearance of the 700MHz spectrum. Also included …

Tags:DTG| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Panasonic Commits Royalty Free Code to Internet of Things

by Steve Sechrist

In the high stakes game of moving everything to the cloud, the idea of truly Open Source code (implementation) and protocol specifications for the Internet of Things ( IoT) can be elusive. Now Panasonic …

Tags:business| Chips| Intel| Internet of Things IOT| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Qualcomm| Vol 22 - Issue 14