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LCD Makers Looking at Half G10.5?

We’ve heard that an idea is being floated around in Korea and Taiwan of building ‘half 10.5G’ fabs which are shaped, ...

Canon Shows Blended 4K Displays

Canon was showing the 4K600STZ which is a 6,000 ANSI lumen DCI 4K projector in a blended application and based on ...

Smarter Smart Watches Are Finally Selling…

For years, smartwatches seemed like a solution for no detectable problem. After all, they did nothing your smartphone couldn’t do, and ...

Parade Technologies Has Successful Quarter

Mixed signal IC supplier Parade Technologies announced Q3 net profits of NT$674.6 million ($22.3 million), more than twice the NT$303.3 million ...

Samsung Notebook 9 Pro is Just FullHD

Samsung has a new Notebook 9 Pro, a laptop that is available with 13.3″ or 15.6″ displays and supporting the Samsung ...

Exertis Could Add Alcatel to its Portfolio

Exertis’ mobility division has been holding talks with Alcatel to distribute their handsets. The talks that started two months ago have ...

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LG Electronics Result 27/04/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

LG Electronics reported its FY17 Q1 financial result with consolidated sales of KRW 14.7 trillion ($12.9 billion) and operating income of KRW 921.5 billion ($0.81 billion), resulting in an operating margin of 6.3%. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Nvidia Boosts Unity VR Rendering

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia has launched a VRWorks plug-in for the latest Unity beta with a number of new features exploiting the Nvidia GPUs. Multi-Res Shading (Maxwell & Pascal) – renders each part of an image at …

Tags:AR/VR| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 17

EU court: Selling streaming boxes with piracy add-ons is illegal

by Bob Raikes

We reported on a court case in the UK that saw a dealer brought to court for selling a streaming box which was a ‘fully-loaded’ Kodi box, which included plug-ins that allowed access to …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Piracy| Trademarks and Copyright| Vol 24 - Issue 17

YouTube Kids App Comes to LG, Samsung and Sony TVs

by Alan Spencer

TVs from LG, Samsung, and Sony will now have the YouTube Kids app installed. The app was introduced a little over two years ago by Google, and is available in 26 countries with more …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Britons Prefer the High Street for Shopping

by Alan Spencer

Mood Media and Retail Week launched a study (downloadable with registration) on the British consumer and found that 75% of all Britons prefer to shop in a store rather than online, as stores offer …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail Data| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Panel Shipments To Rise in Q2 Ahead of New Products

by Bob Raikes

IHS Markit has released its forecast for panel sales in Q2 and expects a 7% quarter on quarter increase from the poor result of a 9% reduction in Q1. “The increase in shipments has …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Q1 Smartphones Up Globally

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that 347.4 million smartphones shipped in Q1 of 2017, up 4.3% on Q1 last year, up on the company’s forecast, with Chinese brands driving much of the growth as Huawei, Oppo, and …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 16

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AUO Positive About Results

by Bob Raikes

Along with its financial results, AUO talked to investors and told them that ASPs for LCDs had increased by 2% to $421 per sq. metre, compared to $413 in Q4. CEO and Chairman, Paul …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Comcast Sees Subscriber Rise in First Quarter of 2017

by Alan Spencer

Comcast results for the first quarter of 2017, show that cable customers increased by 10% compared to the same quarter last year, and the customer base increased by 297,000 to 28.9 million. Residential customer …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 17

AT&T Has Mixed Results for the First Quarter of 2017

by Alan Spencer

AT&T has reported that total linear video subscribers were down for the first quarter of 2017. However, in the quarter there was an increase in subscribers for DirecTV Now. The number of satellite subscribers …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Satellite| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 17

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SES Result 28/04/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

SES announced FY17 Q1 result with net sales of €540.6 million ($590.9 million) and operating profit of €186.7 million ($204.0 million), resulting in operating margin of 34.5%. The net profit was €128.4 million ($140.3 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 24 - Issue 17

New Study on High Pixel Density Clarifies Advantages

by Arthur Berman

A good deal of study was conducted during the 1980s and 1990s into the effects of pixel density on a variety of factors including visual performance, subjective well-being and preference. Most of these studies …

Tags:Visual Ergonomics| Vol 24 - Issue 17