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BSkyB Adds to Roku Investment

BSkyB has invested a further $0.7 million in Roku, taking its total investment in the OTT streaming platform to $12.2 million. ...

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 40

For a company whose entire business structure, for many years, was solely online, you would think that Google would be able ...

Glass-Based OLED Growth Slows

IDTechEx has revised its forecast for the global OLED displays market. The firm says that glass-based OLEDs are not growing as ...

Google vs Amazon Fight is Stepped Up

Variety has reported that Google has blocked access to YouTube from Amazon’s Fire TV devices and the Echo Show device. A ...

Good Month for Taiwan Chip Companies

Taiwan’s major chip companies reported strong sales in July, with Mediatek achieving monthly revenue which was the highest in four months. ...

Machine Vision Positions Mixed Reality as Future Disruptor of Existing AR Enterprise Devices

With augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) head-worn device shipments to reach 37 million by 2018, at an 83% CAGR, ...

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NEC Tours Across DACH

by Tom Allen

NEC Display Solutions will take a roadshow through the DACH region in March and April. The ‘A World of Visual Experience’ show will begin in Zurich on 4th and 5th March, before moving to …

Tags:Austria| Back Panel| Germany| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Switzerland| Vol 22 - Issue 05

iBoardTouch Directs Itself at Education

by Vanessa Browning

iBoardTouch was a new name to us at BETT 2015. The company is mainly interested in large LCD touch displays which are made in China and now are being sold through its own sales …

Tags:BETT 2015| Education| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Meeting Rooms| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Avnet’s Q2 Sales Drop 4.6%

by Helen Vince

Avnet Technology Solutions, the enterprise technology business of Avnet Inc., reported a 4.6% year on year drop in turnover in Q2 to $3.1 billion. By region, sales in the Americas were little changed YoY …

Tags:Distributors| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Qualcomm Leak Shows 810 Successor

by Tom Allen

A Twitter-based source, Leakfly, has shared preliminary specifications for Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 820 and 600 family processors. The roadmap document shows that the 820 uses 64-bit ‘TS2’ cores, which are based on a Samsung …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| SOCs| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Toray Phosphor Sheet Raises LED Brightness

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Nikkei newspaper claims that Toray Industries has developed a phosphor sheet that can raise WLED brightness by 10%, without an increase in input power. The sheet is intended for use with WLEDs formed …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Toray| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Sony Wants to Address the Wearable Market with Partnerships

by Norbert Hildebrand

PC World published an article on Sony’s appearance at the Wearable Device Technology Expo in Tokyo.  Kaz Tajima, senior vice president at Sony Mobile Communications, said that Sony is looking for collaboration partners for new …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Wearables

LG Display Pushes Flexible OLED Display Development

by Norbert Hildebrand

LG Display has published  a new video pushing its development of flexible OLED display. The video is 5 min long and more of a marketing piece than a real interview.   The video shows …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Amazon Instant Video

Amazon Will Produce Original Movies for Theaters

by Norbert Hildebrand

Home entertainment is based on content creation for either TV or movie theaters. While the content for TV is often produced by broadcasters around the world and contains news, sports and all other kinds …

Tags:Amazon| Content Creation| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Ericsson Sues Apple over Patent Licensing

by Norbert Hildebrand

Ericsson has sued Apple in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over the use of smartphone technology. According to a press release from Ericsson, the lawsuit follows a lawsuit from Apple …

Tags:Apple| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Samsung has no Interest in Buying BlackBerry

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to The Wall Street Journal Samsung is not interested in buying BlackBerry at this point in time. J.K. Shin, Samsung’s mobile phone business leader said that Samsung is talking to BlackBerry to extend their …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 04

DTG’s 4k Plugfests turn spotlight on HEVC streams

by Helen Vince

The DTG’s UK UHD Forum has held its second 4k Plugfest with a focus on content streamed in 4k over satellite, IP and DTT to UHD TVs and set-top boxes. This DTG members-only event brought …

Tags:DTG| HEVC (H.265)