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Efficient STBs Save Americans Almost $170 Million

Around $168 million in energy bills has been saved by American consumers using energy-efficient set-top boxes, according to a new report ...

Pay-TV Rises, but Cable Falls

Informitiv’s latest Multiscreen Index shows that the world’s top 100 pay-TV services added about 20.3 million new subscribers between Q2’13 and ...

Chinese Makers to Halt Capacity Expansion

Taiwanese sources say that Chinese notebook component makers have temporarily halted expansion of their production capacities. The move comes due to ...

CTA Says the US is Heading for a Record Year in Technology

Every year the end of the Holiday Season marks a new start for the electronics world with the CES in the ...

Samsung S7 Display Shoot-Out

Samsung mobile, famous for its AMOLED displays has targeted high brightness and daylight readability in their newest Galaxy S7 flagship offerings. ...

How to Choose the Right Display for Photography and Graphics Design

With a plethora of monitor sizes, resolutions, aspect ratios, panel technologies and colour support all vying for shelf space in retail ...

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Any Interesting Display Stuff at CE Week?

by Ken Werner

CE Week is a miniature Consumer Electronics Show held each June in New York to make sure the CES brand is not forgotten between one January and the next. Okay, that may be a …

Tags:Consumer Electronics Industry| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Leyard Secures Win at Infocomm

by Tom Allen

Leyard, with its subsidiary Planar, won seven awards at Infocomm 2016. Six industry publications presented awards: AV Technology, Commercial Integrator, Digital Signage, Government Video, Sound & Video Contractor and Systems Contractor News. Two products …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Leyard| Planar| Vol 23 - Issue 24

UTS Avoids Point-to-Point With Matrox

by Tom Allen

Matrox is celebrating a win for its Maevex solution in Australia’s University of Technology Sydney – which has just built ‘the largest teaching laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere.’ The use of the Maevex encoding/decoding …

Tags:Back Panel| Education| Large Display Monitor| Matrox| Video Encoders & Decoders| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Sony Favours HPM Over Laser

by Tom Allen

Sony, unlike other big names in the cinema projection space, did not have a stand on the show floor. However, we were able to sit down with David McIntosh – the head of the …

Tags:CineEurope 2016| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| Projector Stacks| sony

Apple Describes Phone With Wrap-Around Display

by Tom Allen

Apple has patented a phone with a wrap-around display – that is, a display encircling the device entirely. To avoid excessive battery drain, sensors would determine where the user is looking, and only the …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Australia Relies on Holo-Gauze at Eurovision

by Tom Allen

Holo-Gauze has said that it supplied the technology to enable Australia’s live performance at the Eurovision Song Contest this year. Three screens were used: two 3m x 5m behind singer Dami Im and one …

Tags:Back Panel| Europe| Events| Holography| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Ignis Signs Patent License With LGD

by Tom Allen

Ignis Innovation has signed a patent license agreement with LG Display, covering its circuit technology for use in OLED displays. The agreement is non-exclusive, but specific terms were not disclosed. Analyst Comment I wrote …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 24

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Sony Ends Manufacturing in Brazil

by Tom Allen

Sony has decided to stop making smartphones in Brazil, which was being done through deals with Foxconn and Arima. The company took the decision due to a lack of fiscal incentives and the poor …

Tags:Brazil| Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Foxconn Plans Big Changes for Sharp

by Tom Allen

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou has said that his company will “carry out a series of measures to help Sharp make a turnaround as soon as possible,” after officially joining the board in July. Gou …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Rumour: Nanoco Has New TV Customers

by Tom Allen

We have been told that Nanoco’s cadmium-free quantum dots have been adopted for use in LCD TVs from Chinese and Taiwanese makers. The sets are expected to arrive in the second half of this …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Nanoco| Quantum Dots| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Peter Chou is No Longer at HTC

by Tom Allen

HTC has confirmed that former CEO Peter Chou has left the company. Although he is still an honourary consultant to HTC, Chou is now serving as chairman of the Digital Domain, a Hong Kong-based …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Vol 23 - Issue 24

China Maintains Large-Screen Lead

by Tom Allen

IHS says that demand for large-screen (55″+) TVs is ‘surging’ in China, as falling prices promote consumer adoption. Shipments of these sets rose almost 80% YoY in Q1’16, with many local brands offering steep …

Tags:China| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| large displays| TV Set Market| Vol 23 - Issue 24