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QVC to Launch Ultra HD Channel in Germany

Home shopping giant QVC will soon launch Germany’s seventh Ultra HD satellite channel under a new ten-year deal with SES, which ...

Amino Booxmedia Cloud VOD for RTL Belgium

Booxmedia of Finland, a member of the Amino group, has done a deal with RTL of Belgium to support an “end ...

Pixelworks Improves Mobile Display Quality While Reducing System Cost

We have just succeeded in wrapping our heads around the fact that quantum dot enhancement can signficantly increase the color gamut ...

Kyocera Enters European Mobile Phone Market with Ultra-Rugged 4G LTE Smartphone

Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) a Japan-based global enterprise engaged in numerous high-tech fields, announced today the launch of the new TORQUE (KC-S701) ...

Fujitsu Receives Award for Science and Technology for Wrap Around Imaging Technology

Fujitsu has received an award for a 360 degree wrap around video imaging technology aimed at the automotive market. With 360 ...

Innolux Predicts Area Declines

Innolux’s president, Wang Jyh-chau, has said that the company expects its LCD panel shipments and ASPs to fall QoQ in Q1’16. ...

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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