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Apple Result 26/01/2016

Apple reported flat Q1 net profit of $18.4 billion, up marginally YoY from $18 billion. Turnover was also flat at $75.9 ...

HDR-SDR Converters Proliferate

One of the big trends at NAB 2017 was the announcements of SDR/HDR converter boxes. These are needed to support HDR ...

Foxconn Sales Fell 14% in May

Foxconn Electronics saw sales fall 14.4% sequentially to NT$301.6 billion ($9.7 billion) in May, though this was 12.6% higher than a ...

Gray: LG and Samsung Should Shift Focus

Paul Gray at the 2015 IFA Global Press ConferenceThe IFA Global Press Conference is a pre-cursor to the main event in ...

JCB Values DPI’s Colour Reproduction

Antycip Simulation chose to install Digital Projection’s HIGHLite Laser projectors in JCB’s new Uptime Centre control room. The facility is located ...

ANGA Predicts Analogue Cable’s Death

The Association of German Cable Operators (ANGA) expects that the requirements for the termination of analogue TV signals on cable networks ...

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How does Samsung grow its TV business?

by Bob Raikes

My attention was drawn to the news, reported by the FT, that LG and Samsung are starting to see competition in their home market of Korea from store brands and low cost brands. Although …

Tags:Samsung| TV

Sony’s CrystalLED and Alien Technology

by Bob Raikes

While going around ISE earlier this year and looking at the latest innovations, I got to thinking about the Sony inorganic LED TV shown at CES (but not at ISE). For those that missed …

Tags:displays| LED| sony

Samsung sells off its LCD business

by Bob Raikes

So Samsung has decided to spin-off its LCD business into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and to orient its business towards OLED displays. When I first heard the rumour about the split, I …

Tags:LCD| Samsung| Samsung LCD

CES thoughts on HDR

by Bob Raikes

  While OLED was, of course, the big story of CES this year, and it seems to me that there are still lots of questions to be answered about the ability of LG and …

Tags:CES| display| HDR| TV

Larger monitors outsell small sizes for first time in Q3

by Raverstead

In the third quarter of 2011 sales of monitor sets of 21.5″ and above went past the volume of smaller sets for the first time. Larger sizes now represent nearly two thirds of the …

Tags:large monitors| monitors| small monitors

LED backlit TVs overtake CCFL for first time in Q3 2011

by Raverstead

In the third quarter of this year the volume of LED-backlit LCD TV sets sold in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) went past the volume of CCFL-backlit sets for the first time, reaching …

Tags:CCFL backlit TV| LED backlit TV| TV data| TV values| TV volumes

Delay the inevitable?

by Bob Raikes

In Display Monitor back in March 2010, we reported on a talk by Paul Kedrosky, an economist from the US, at the US FPD conference in which he said that ‘the function of governments …

Tags:display technology| eurozone

The Eurozone

by Bob Raikes

Last week’s big EU meeting of leaders to move a bit further along the road to solving the problems of the Eurozone has been a big topic in discussions, as currencies and their movement …

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The power of the megapixel

by Bob Raikes

I’m going to pick up on a subject that I have ranted about a lot. Looking back, however, it is actually 11 years since I devoted a whole editorial to the topic. One of …

Intimations of Mortality

by Bob Raikes

This week has been one for me of ‘intimations of mortality’, to slightly mis-quote Wordsworth. From the news last weekend that a friend and industry colleague has been diagnosed with cancer, through to the …

Tags:Apple| iPad| Mac| Steve Jobs

Monitor sales drop again in Q2

by Raverstead

Monitor sales volume in EMEA continued to slide in the second quarter of 2011, with a drop of 6.5% compared to the same period last year, according to European displays specialist, Meko.   This …

Tags:Desktop monitor| Europe| sales| volume

Doom and Gloom – it must be the Q2 blues again

by Bob Raikes

I remember it well. Almost thirty years ago, in my second year in the computer business I was sitting in my car with a colleague who ran the PC division of the company that …

Tags:business| PC sales| Q2