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Amazon STB Limited to 30fps and No HDR

While Amazon’s new Fire TV STB (UltraHD for $100 With Amazon) can show UltraHD content, a significant failing has been discovered ...

Mediatek’s Platform Speeds Time-to-Market

Mediatek’s new smartphone platform, the MT6735, is a 64-bit device designed to speed products’ time-to-market. The MT6735 Mainstream Worldmode Smartphone Platform, ...

An Interesting Display Application: Virtual Balconies

Apparently, cruise ship passengers having an interior room can sometimes find their in-cabin experience a bit claustrophobic. Not surprisingly, one reason ...

LGD Forecasts OLED Profit in 2015

As production costs fall and supplier talks continue, LG Display expects its OLED TV technology to make a profit in 2015. ...

OTT Will Rise Four-Fold by 2019

Juniper Research says that OTT subscription revenues will rise four-fold by 2019, to $31.6 billion – up from just under $8 ...

Asus Optimises Networks for Laptop Gaming

Asus’ Republic of Gamers’ G751 laptop is a powerful model for gaming-on-the-go. Users can hit dedicated keys to access Steam and ...

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Amazon Aims at YouTube

by Tom Allen

Amazon has introduced a new service competing with YouTube, called Amazon Video Direct. Videos can be rented or purchased, viewed free with adverts or packaged together and offered as an add-on subscription. Several significant …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19| YouTube

Thales Partners with Spanish MoD

by Tom Allen

Thales has signed a deal with the Spanish Ministry of Defence to supply its Scorpion helmet-mounted displays to the EF-18 aircraft. The 80 units to be supplied will be installed in 2016 and 2017, …

Tags:Back Panel| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Thales| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Copaco Signs with Vidi-Touch

by Tom Allen

Copaco is now distributing Vidi-Touch touch displays for digital signage in the Netherlands.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Huawei Designs MediaPad for Video

by Tom Allen

Huawei’s newest tablet, the MediaPad T2 10.0 Pro, is focused on content consumption (and not, as the name suggests, for work). The 10.1″ LCD display (IPS panel) has an eye care mode – although …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Much-Leaked Samsung Tablet is Official

by Tom Allen

Back in March, a new tablet appeared on Samsung’s website before being swiftly removed. The tablet featured a 10.1″ display and was known as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 A. At the end of last …

Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 19

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New Asus Phones Coming this Summer

by Tom Allen

Sources in Taiwan have said that Asus will show off third-generation models in its Zenfone family in June. Over 90% of the Zenfone 3 units will use Qualcomm processors; the others will use Mediatek.

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 19

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Asus Expects Mid-Year Rise

by Tom Allen

Asus’ April revenues fell sharply, down 42.4% MoM and 12.7% YoY, to NT$26.1 billion ($799.3 million). Year-to-date revenues were up 3.1% YoY, at NT$136.1 billion ($4.2 billion). The fall was blamed on delayed purchases, …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

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Acer Down in April

by Tom Allen

Acer has said that its consolidated revenues fell 42.1% MoM and 11.2% YoY in April. Revenues reached NT$14 billion ($428.8 million), with year-to-date revenues of NT$70.4 billion ($2.2 billion) (down 16.2%).

Tags:Acer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Foxconn Slightly Down in April

by Tom Allen

Foxconn’s April revenues were down 5.1% MoM and 8.5% YoY in April, to NT$322.4 billion ($9.9 billion). In the first four months of the year, revenues fell 6.3% to NT$1.3 trillion ($39.8 billion).

Tags:Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Ateme Drives Live UHD in Spain

by Tom Allen

Ateme’s Titan compression system was used by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE to broadcaster the ‘Parsifal’ opera from Teatro Real last month, in UltraHD. The broadcast used both satellite and terrestrial networks. The signal was …

Tags:4k| ATEME| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Spain| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 23 - Issue 19

EC Blocks Mobile Merger

by Tom Allen

The European Commission has blocked the proposed merger of O2 and Hutchinson, which operates the Three network, in the UK. The Commission was concerned that the move would have led to less choice and …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 18

ATEME Drives the First Live 4K-UHD Opera Broadcast in Spain

by Isaac Oburu

ATEME announced today that RTVE, Spain’s public service broadcaster and largest audiovisual group in the country, broadcast the opera by Wagner “Parsifal” from Teatro Real on April 21, live in Ultra High Definition (UHD). …

Tags:ATEME| Spain| UltraHD (4KTV)