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LG Displays Gives Impressive Keynote

The main IFA keynote was given by Sang Beom Han, President and CEO of LG Display whose talk was entitled “How ...

SK Telecom is Working on 8k Encoding

SK Telecom is a major telco in South Korea, and signal transport was its main focus at MWC. This covered data ...

Huawei Designs MediaPad for Video

Huawei’s newest tablet, the MediaPad T2 10.0 Pro, is focused on content consumption (and not, as the name suggests, for work). ...

Digital Pay-TV On the Rise in Latin America

Digital pay-TV penetration in Latin America was 85% in 2016, according to Dataxis. It is forecast to reach 94% by 2022, ...

Dell Pays $67 Billion for EMC

Dell has signed a deal to acquire data storage company EMC, for $67 billion. With the acquisition, Dell will diversify its ...

Three New ATSC 3.0 Standards Signal More Progress Toward Finalizing Next-gen TV

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has standardized three more components of the next-generation television system that is expected to transform ...

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Samsung Will Ditch Plastic Body

by Tom Allen

In its recent financial report (Samsung Profit Fell for First Time in 3 Years), Samsung said that it is to adopt a new mobile device strategy, following a year of ‘weak earnings’. The company will …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Sky Result 30/01/15

by Helen Vince

Sky PLC has reported its half yearly results, posting a net profit of £1 billion ($1.5 billion) on turnover of £4.3 billion ($6.5 billion), which compares with a net profit in the first six …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 22 - Issue 08

AUO Aims at 30% Curved Share

by Tom Allen

Michael Tsai, VP of AUO’s display business group, has said that the company is aiming to hold a 30% share of curved UltraHD TV panel shipments worldwide this year. The majority of AUO’s shipments will …

Tags:AUO| Curved Displays| Large Display Monitor| Market Shares - Panels| Production| UltraHD (4KTV)| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Asustek Sees Tough Year Ahead

by Helen Vince

Asustek said it managed to achieve revenue growth in 2014 and is optimistic about its performance this year, despite tough competition in mobile devices. The company shipped 20.1 million notebooks in 2014, a 6.9% …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 06

AUO to Increase 8.5G Production Capacity

by Tom Allen

Monthly production at AUO’s G8.5 facilities in Houli, Taiwan, will be increased by between 25,000 and 30,000 substrates by 2016, said company president Paul Peng. The move will add 5% to AUO’s overall capacity. It …

Tags:AUO| China| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Indian Pay-TV Commits to UltraHD

by Tom Allen

Star India, a pay-TV operator, plans to broadcast seven matches from the ICC Cricket World Cup this year in UltraHD. Coverage will include the semi-finals and the final match. The last world cup was …

Tags:4k| India| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 06

LG Develops Flexible OLED Panels – Display or Not

by Norbert Hildebrand

LG Display has made headlines in many technology blogs in recent days. At CES the company announced plans for its OLED TVs, now the buzz is about a shatterproof flexible OLED panel that LG …

Tags:display technology| Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs

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Orad Upgrades PowerWall Solution

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Orad Hi-Tec Systems Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel) introduced its HDVG4 videowall controller at NAB 2013. This controller is targeted at high-end studio videowall applications, especially on-set studio applications. A single HDVG4 platform can distribute …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Virtual Reality – The New Medium for the Next Generation

by Norbert Hildebrand

When virtual reality appeared in the display world, there was a clear application for the Sony 3D Viewer, the Zeiss Cinemizer and other devices as a personal viewer of movies. This means we were …

Tags:Cinema| Game Playing| Oculus Rift| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality

Apple Becomes World’s Second Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in Q4 2014

by Helen Vince

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile phone shipments grew 7 percent annually to reach 515 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014. It was the first time worldwide mobile …

Tags:Apple| Lenovo| Microsoft| Samsung| Smartphone Market