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Pay-TV Market in Africa Reaches 23.7 million Subscribers

The latest research from Dataxis, shows a steady expansion of the pay-TV market in Africa. For the second quarter of 2017, ...

iiyama Launches New LFD Range for Multiple Usage

iiyama, one of the leading providers of high quality professional displays, has introduced a new range of stand-alone large format landscape ...

Eve: Valkyrie Developer Shuts Down VR Studios

CCP Games, the team behind virtual reality shooter Eve: Valkyrie, has announced its VR studios will close. Eve: Valkyrie was released ...

Flexible Transparent Conductor Under Development

An enabling material for many flexible electronic devices is a flexible, transparent electrically conductive thin film. In order for such a ...

Showstoppers is Busy – Blame the Beer!

The first event that we got to at MWC was the Showstoppers event that took place in Central Barcelona. There were ...

ECR Less Interesting than Prior Years

This impressive projection mapped display welcomed delegate at ECR 2017. I’m not sure that the skull gave the kind of positive ...

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China Clears Way for Foxconn/Sharp Deal

by Tom Allen

The Sharp/Foxconn merger has been approved by China’s anti-monopoly authorities, completing the final stage of regulatory reviews in the $3.8 billion deal. Foxconn said in a statement that it and Sharp ‘will now move …

Tags:China| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 32

ViewSonic’s VP2468 Has Flush Glass and Accurate Colour

by Tom Allen

ViewSonic’s new VP2468 monitor features edge-to-edge glass, high colour accuracy and thin bezels to support its use in multi-monitor set-ups. The 23.8″ display features five gamma settings (1.8 – 2.6), plus hue and saturation …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Narrow Bezels| ViewSonic| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Lenovo Teases Flexible Devices for IFA

by Tom Allen

A teaser for Lenovo’s IFA 2016 presence talks about new tablets and new modules for the Moto Z smartphone – and clearly shows flexible displays. As well as “a new chapter in tablets”, the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| IFA 2016| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Deutsche Telekom Gains 41,000 IPTV Customers

by Isaac Oburu

Deutsche Telekom added 41,000 new customers for its IPTV platform ‘Entertain’ in Q2’16, bringing its total subscribers to 2.8 million. This, however, is slower growth compared to Q1’16 and Q2’15, where the company recorded …

Tags:Germany| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 32

DIGILITY16 to be Held in Germany

by Isaac Oburu

Digility, an event focusing on VR, AR, wearable computing, hardware and software, 360° imaging and artificial intelligence, will take place from 22-23 September 2016 in Cologne, Germany. It will run alongside the Photokina show. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Back Panel| Events| Germany| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 32

UHD Channel in Scandinavia!

by Isaac Oburu

Danmon Group has finished building Scandinavia’s first UHD TV channel: ViaSat Sport. The channel is now transmitting selected live sport events in UHD to viewers throughout the Nordic region. Danmon also built an additional …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Nordics| Satellite| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 32

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Acer Result 11/08/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Acer reported Q2 2016 net profit of NT$538 million ($16.7 million), up from NT$ 46 million ($1.4 million) in the previous quarter. Turnover was NT$56.1 billion ($1.7 billion), down marginally from the previous quarter. …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Compal Positive About the Future

by Tom Allen

Compal’s revenues fell 18.5% MoM and 5.3% YoY in July, to NT$56.9 billion ($1.8 billion). Year-to-date revenues were down 11.1% at NT$406.5 billion ($13 billion). The company shipped 2.4 million notebooks in July and …

Tags:Compal| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Charter Lessens Subscriber Loss in Q2

by Isaac Oburu

Charter Communications, Inc. has released its first half results. The company’s residential video customers declined by 152,000 in Q2’16, compared to a 170,000 fall in Q2’15. At the end of the period, Legacy Charter …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Samsung, HDR and Industry Experts

by Matthew Brennesholtz

My Display Daily on August 10th discussed the relationship between HDR10 and Dolby Vision. That evening I attended a High Dynamic Range (HDR) event in New York hosted by Samsung and Insight Media, held …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Is Apple Following in the Footsteps of Sony?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Many years ago a Japanese company named Sony set out to revolutionize the world with a new take on consumer electronics products. They invented new product categories and created stellar devices that to this …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| iPhone| Market| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 32