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TVLogic Shows Professional Monitors at SMPTE

TVLogic was at the SMPTE Fall Conference showing off some of its professional monitors. While the monitors are not necessarily brand ...

CinemaCon Overview

In a companion “Theatrical Trends from CinemaCon” article I described some of the trends I saw after my first morning at ...

Eagle Rock Addition Expands Ultraflix Library

Nanotech’s Ultraflix UltraHD service has been expanded, through an agreement with Eagle Rock Entertainment. More than 50 concerts and music industry ...

PC Market Stabilizes with Solid Fourth Quarter Shipments Despite Component Shortages, According to IDC

Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (Desktop, Notebook, and Workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16), posting ...

Sony Electronics Announces FHD 3D Home Theater Projector

Sony Electronics used InfoComm to announce the latest edition to its home theater projector line – the VPL-HW45ES. This is a ...

CDS Now Distributing Lumineq Displays

Crystal Display Systems (CDS) has added Lumineq electroluminescent displays (Beneq Exploits EL Advantages) to their portfolio. CDS will distribute the displays ...

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Subscribers Rise but Revenues Fall in Europe

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Revenues will fall for more than 40 European TV operators between 2013 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. Having risen from $33.7 billion in 2010 to $35.8 billion in 2013, the firm expects revenues …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

AMD Names New President and CEO

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AMD has chosen COO Lisa Su as the company’s new president and CEO to replace Rory Read, who has stepped down with immediate effect. Read will support the transition in an advisory role, remaining …

Tags:AMD| Large Display Monitor| People| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Samsung Warns of 60% Fall in Profit

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Samsung says that it expects third quarter operating profit to be approximately KRW4.1 trillion ($3.8 billion), 60% lower than Q3 of last year and the fourth consecutive quarter of declines. Revenue for the period …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

CEA Says US Tech Spending to Set Record This Year

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According to the CEA, total spending on technology in the USA this Christmas season will rise 2.5% YoY, to more than $33.7 billion. An improving macroeconomic environment is increasing consumers’ willingness to shop, said …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

ARM and TSMC Celebrate Big.Little on FinFET

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The results of a silicon validation of ARM’s Big.Little chip architecture, showing performance improvements, have been announced. The validation used ‘Big’ Cortex-A57 and ‘Little’ Cortex-A53 processors on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET (16FF) process technology. The …

Tags:Arm| Chips| CPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Sharp Surprises With MEMS-IGZO Tablet in 2015

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Last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37), Sharp announced that it would begin mass-production of its MEMS-IGZO displays (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 22) in 2017. Much earlier than this date, however, the …

Tags:IGZO| MEMS| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

German Media Authorities Approve BSkyB Proposal

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German state media authorities in Bavaria and Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein have approved BSkyB’s proposal to buy 57.4% of Sky Deutschland, as part of its Sky Europe plans. The approval follows a recent general meeting …

Tags:Broadcasters| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Sky| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Triumph Looks for Partners

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Triumph is a Czech company, based in Prague, that develops touch systems for business meetings and education. The company currently sells its products in the EU, in Africa and in the US and was …

Tags:Gitex 2014| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Touch Displays| Vol 21 - Issue 41

Microsoft Confident of ‘Real World’ Windows Feedback

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One million people are testing Windows 10 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 39), according to Microsoft. About 65% of these have installed the OS on a PC, while 35% have it on a virtual …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21| Windows

Sling Media and ViXS Downconvert for Multiple Streams

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Sling Media and ViXS Systems have worked together on a new network transcoder, which uses Sling technology and a ViXS XCode 5190 chipset. The device can perform 2560 x 1440 to 1280 x 720 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Transcoders| ViXS| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Emagin Receives $6.8 Million in R&D Contracts

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Emagin says it has been awarded three new R&D contracts totalling $6.8 million. One of the three new contracts is a $1.1 million contract over 15 months to further enhance the full colour brightness …

Tags:AMOLED| eMagin| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Smartphones Drive MEA Handsets to Record Sales

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A new record was set for the MEA tablet handset market in Q2 this year, rising 27% YoY to 64 million units. IDC says that most growth came from smartphones, which are rapidly gaining …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21