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Ströer Continues to Grow Despite Challenging Year for DOOH

Times are hard for the Digital-Out-of-Home advertising industry in Germany. Ströer spoke to Invidis and provided some insight into the state ...

BenQ Wins Schools in Texas

BenQ announced that the firm’s RP653 IFPs were installed in 128 classrooms and administrative conference spaces by the Castleberry Independent School ...

ALTBalaji Available on Opera TV

ALTBalaji, the Indian digital platform has announced that its content is now availability on Opera TV. This means that all smart ...

’80s Patent Keeps Apple Out of Switzerland

A patent may prevent the Apple Watch from being sold in Switzerland this year. The patent, which covers the use of ...

It’s Official: Toshiba Leaves North American TVs

Toshiba is to cease TV development and sales in North America, and will be licensing its TV business in the region ...

Disney Preserves (Some) HDR for Consumer TV

High dynamic range (HDR) content, such as Dolby Vision, has two major problems. First, how to generate it and second, how ...

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Acer Kicks off IFA in Bullish Mode

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Acer was the first press conference and CEO Jason Chen started by saying that sales in Germany were double in Q2 2014 and in Austria, it was closer to 3X business. Chen said that …

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ITRI Lowers Touch Production Costs

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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) showcased a new metal mesh production technology at Touch Taiwan last month. The technology is said to feature a ‘one-step’ roll-to-roll method, which can apparently lower production costs …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Metal Mesh| Roll to Roll (R2R)| Touch Taiwan 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Emerging Markets Take Smartphone Slack

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Smartphone shipments are expected to rise 23.8% YoY in 2014, according to IDC, to more than 1.25 billion units, from 1.01 billion in 2013. A 12.7% CAGR will lead to 1.8 billion shipments in …

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Dell Widens Gamut and Size

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A 2015 version of Dell’s Ultrasharp U2414H (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 38) has appeared on the company’s Chinese website. While similar to last year’s product, the display on the U2415H has been changed. …

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Hannstar’s Sales & Shipments Down In August

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Hannstar Display said that sales and shipments both declined last month, with revenue for the month 1.7% lower than July and 32.8% down year on year at NT$1.8 billion ($60 million). Sales for the …

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Samsung Display Hides Away

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Samsung Display had a private area in Hall 14 and we went around to see the range of products. Showing where the priorities lie for the local sales people in the Display business, we …

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Digital TV Labs’ Test Suite Checks Compliance

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Digital TV Labs is launching products designed to accelerate the development and deployment of UltraHD HEVC services. The organisation’s HEVC for DVB Test Suite enables SoC, STB and TV vendors to check their products’ …

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Sharp Chooses Metal Mesh for Large-Format Touch

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Although we missed it at the time, we have heard about several new products demonstrated at Touch Taiwan last month by Sharp. They used metal mesh rather than ITO, a proprietary controller chip and …

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LG Moves Past P-OLED Problems

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LG is obviously deeply committed to OLED TVs, but our first stop on the stand was its OLED smartwatch, the G Watch R. Attracting a lot of attention from consumers, the product is the …

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TiVo’s STB Uses Broadcom

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Broadcom’s BCM7445 SoC is being used in TiVo’s newest UltraHD set-top box. According to Broadcom, the SoC enables the display of UltraHD at 60fps, using the Rec.2020 colour standard.

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Sigma SoC Supports HEVC Main-10 UltraHD

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Sigma Designs had a meeting room and welcomed us with news of its SMP8758 SoC which supports UltraHD and HEVC. The chip supports up to the Main-10 profile that forms part of UltraHD Phase …

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AMD: ‘If 28nm Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it’

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Rory Read, AMD’s CEO, has detailed the company’s two-year roadmap at a presentation for Deutsche Bank in Germany. He said that 28nm would remain a major process for the company for some time, but …

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