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German Market Remains Steady in 2014

The positive trend in consumer electronics (CE) sales in Germany continued through 2014. Compared to 2013, sales were up 2.1%, and ...

Ivory Coast Bans Analogue TVs

The Ivory Coast has banned analogue TV imports, sales and marketing. The move has come as the country attempts to meet ...

UBI Says that OLED is the Best Automotive Display

UBI Research of Korea is optimistic that OLED will increasingly penetrate the automotive market. In a post on OLEDnet, the company ...

Virtual Elephants Trek the World

Conservation campaigners in the UK, have welcomed the arrival of March for Giants, which is the world’s first virtual elephant herd. ...

BBC Three Covering Major eSports Tournament

The BBC will be showing coverage of the Gfinity Elite Series of eSports on BBC Three online every weekend for the ...

Smart TVs Dominate Spain Connected TV Use

Spanish trade body IAB Spain has found that around 4.3 million people in the country regularly use connected TV. 64% access ...

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Sony Replaces Mobile Unit CEO

by Raverstead

Sony has appointed Hiroki Totoki as the new president and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications, replacing Kunimasa Suzuki who has been made executive VP of Sony Entertainment. The announcement came as Sony released its …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Smartphones| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Third Platform Will Dominate ICT Growth in 2015

by Raverstead

We recently ‘attended’ a webinar by IDC, covering the company’s prediction for the ‘third platform’. The third platform consists of 21st century technologies such as big data, mobile, the cloud and the internet of …

Tags:3D printing| IDC| Internet of Things IOT| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

UDC Result 07/11/2014

by Raverstead

Universal Display Corporation (UDC) posted a net profit of $4.3 million on turnover of $32.8 million in Q3, which compares with a net profit of $5.5 million on turnover of $32.8 million in the …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| UDC| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Winners Announced for Intel’s ‘Make it Wearable’ Contest

by Raverstead

Intel’s Make it Wearable contest, announced at CES 2014, challenged competitors to design innovative and creative wearable devices. Devices could be entered on one of two tracks: ‘Development’ (must be an actual concept based …

Tags:Back Panel| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 44| Wearables

Entropic Leaves STB SoC Development

by Raverstead

Entropic has announced that it will no longer produce SoC devices for use in set-top boxes. The company will continue to supply its STB SoCs that are already in production and believes that the …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor

No UltraHD Breakthrough Next Year

by Raverstead

OVAB’s Digital Signage Business Climate Index in the DACH countries shows that UltraHD signage is not expected to reach mainstream adoption next year. The ‘vast majority’ of respondents expected that the technology would have …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor

Analogue Switch-Off Imminent in Kenya – Again

by Raverstead

Kenyan ASO, which has been delayed several times (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 50 and Vol 20 No 48), is apparently set to begin again. Francis Wangusi, director general of the Communications Authority of …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 21 - Issue 47

DTT Hits Three Year Delay in Kazakhstan

by Raverstead

Kazakhstan will not introduce DTT services next year, as originally planned. Instead the roll-out has been postponed until 2018, due to technical issues, according to local media.

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Kazakhstan| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Minneapolis Convention Centre Chooses Nanolumens

by Raverstead

Nanolumens has supplied two large-scale LED displays to the Minneapolis Convention Centre. Both are part of the Nanocurve product line, installed in the new visitor information centre in the Centre’s main corridor. The displays …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Sky Subscribers Rise in Q3

by Raverstead

Sky Deutschland ended Q3’14 with more than 3.9 million subscribers. Sky Premium HD customers rose by 75,000, to exceed 2.3 million.

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Sky| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Vizio Expands South of the Border

by Raverstead

Vizio has entered the Mexican market. The company’s E-series and M-Series TVs are now being sold through Sams’s Club and Walmart Superstore locations.

Tags:Distributors| Large Display Monitor| LATAM| TVs (TV Sets)| Vizio| Vol 21 - Issue 44| Walmart

42 Christie Offers New “Twist” Option for Simulation Market

by Raverstead

Christie Digital is offering end users in the simulation and training market a new option to add the company’s warping and edge-blending software to its projectors. Twist Pro is now an optional fee-based add-on …

Tags:Blend & Warp| Christie| I/ITSEC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49