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Detachables Will Change Tablet Market

IDC has forecast that worldwide tablet shipments will fall to 195 million units this year: a 5.9% fall from 2015. Positive ...

Barco Receives Technology Innovator Award at CineAsia 2017

Barco received the Technology Innovator of the Year award at CineAsia 2017 in Hong Kong. Barco now has a team of ...

Lenovo Splits Mobile Unit by Brand

Following the completion of the integration of Motorola Mobility (Lenovo Realigns Businesses Following Mergers), Lenovo Group has split its mobile business ...

Epson Ditches LCD for OLED in Moverio

It has been several years since we saw the first Moverio headset from Epson – a look through our archives shows ...

SID 2017 Report: Merck Discusses Flexible LCDs

Apologies, because of some production issues, these items were omitted from our main SID 2017 report. Among the many things Merck ...

Build to Last: VR Sales Figures You Can Count on

A big stink is being made about HTC delaying the commercial release of their HTC Vive until April next year, and ...

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Sony Result 31/10/2014

by Raverstead

Sony Corporation’s net loss in the second quarter widened to ¥136 billion ($1.2 billion) from ¥19.6 billion ($172.6 million) in Q2 of last year, though turnover increased to ¥1.9 trillion ($16.7 billion) from ¥1.7 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Thoughts on Black Friday

by Bob Raikes

One of our lead stories this week is about Black Friday. We first used the phrase “Black Friday” in the newsletter in 1997 in the context of a sales day after Thanksgiving. Interestingly, our …

Tags:Black Friday| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

UK Retailers are Positive About Christmas

by Raverstead

A survey of 300 UK retailers by Barclays has revealed that almost 70% believe that the Christmas trading period this year will be better than last year’s. This compares to 52% who felt the …

Tags:Back Panel| Black Friday| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail Data| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Wintek Sales Plunge 68%, 610 Jobs to Go

by Raverstead

Touch panel maker Wintek’s financial woes continue, as the company reported a 68% year on year fall in sales in November to NT$2.7 billion ($86.7 million), which was more than half the previous month’s …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Wintek

Ocean’s ‘Hybrid’ Screen Arrives in Westfield

by Raverstead

Ocean Outdoor has extended its ‘Face @ Westfield’ screens. East Face @ Westfield is 15m x 9m and towers over the West Cross route, the main approach to the shopping centre. It is surrounded …

Tags:Large Display Monitor

Antik Has Big Plans for Slovakia

by Raverstead

Antik Telecom, in Slovakia, will launch a hybrid OTT-satellite TV service in Q1’15. There will be six pay-TV packages, with up to 80 channels. The satellite portion will use the DVB-S2 format. Additionally, Antik …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Satellite| Slovakia| Vol 21 - Issue 47

DTVL Deploys HbbTV 2.0 Test Suite

by Raverstead

Digital TV Labs in the UK has announced an HbbTV 2.0 Test Suite – which it claims is the world’s first. The Suite will be developed to support Digital UK’s next-generation Freeview service. Manufacturers …

Tags:Europe| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 21 - Issue 48

MTS is Ambitious With DTH

by Raverstead

Russia’s MTS will launch its own satellite TV platform this year. According to Kommersant, the service will cover 95% of Russia and offer 160 channels, of which 30 will be HD. It will cost …

Tags:Large Display Monitor

Sony Provides UltraHD For Free…ish

by Raverstead

Sony is now offering customers five high-resolution films for free. Between 31st October and 27th December, customers with a 2014 Bravia UltraHD TV can take the ‘Privilege Movies 4k’ promotion to get 10 films, …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| sony| UltraHD| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Vizio Lowers Amtran Orders

by Raverstead

LCD TV OEM Amtran will produce less than 10% of Vizio’s TVs going forward, say sources in Asia. Vizio has instead shifted its business to Foxconn, TPV and Wistron, while Amtran is focusing on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ODMs & OEMs| sharp| TVs (TV Sets)| Vizio

Elbit Systems Introduces New Artillery and Battle Group Trainers

by Raverstead

Israeli-based Elbit Systems used I/ITSEC 2014 to describe two training systems: the artillery tactical trainer (ATT) and the fourth generation of the tactical battle group trainer (TBT). About to be delivered to the Israel …

Tags:I/ITSEC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Military & Defence| Simulation| Vol 21 - Issue 49