Netflix Rewards LG
by Tom Allen
LG’s 2016 TVs have been awarded the Netflix Recommended badge, for the second year in a row.
Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| Netflix| Vol 23 - Issue 13
Job Cuts Rumoured at Nokia
by Tom Allen
‘People familiar with the plans’ have told the Taipei Times that Nokia Oyj is planning to cut between 10,000 and 15,000 people – 14% of its total 104,000 employees – from its workforce, following …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 23 - Issue 13
HTC Continues to Suffer in Annual Comparison
by Tom Allen
HTC’s revenues were down 1.3% MoM, but 79.3% YoY, in March, to NT$4.1 billion ($127.6 million). In the year-to-date, HTC has registered revenues of NT$14.8 billion ($456.7 million): a 64.3% YoY drop.
Tags:Financial Data| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13
HTC Shares Vive Promotion Plans
by Tom Allen
HTC is to launch an HTC Vive experience zone in the Harrods department store, London. Consumers will be able to try and pre-order the device there. HTC has also said that it will work …
Tags:Back Panel| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 13
Quanta Result 06/04/2016
by Dhruv Dayal Gupta
Quanta Computer reported net profit for full year 2015 at NT$17.8 billion (US$538.91 million), down 5.6% YoY. Turnover for the period was NT$ 1 trillion ($30.23 billion), up 8.7% YoY. Net profit declined due …
Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quanta| Vol 23 - Issue 13
UltraHD Trial is Success in Germany
by Tom Allen
Espial and Tele Columbus have successfully trialled an UltraHD video service in Germany, called ‘Advanced TV’. The Tele Columbus service is based on Espial’s video solutions. 83% of trial participants were said to show …
Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| North America| Testing| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 13
Viaccess-Orca Live Streams UHD 360° Football
by Tom Allen
Viaccess-Orca and French TV channel TF1 trialled a live UltraHD 360° VR broadcast of a football match on the 29th March. The signal was encoded using HEVC and sent to a private test audience. …
Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 4k| Broadcast| France| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 13
What are the Real Chances for AR and VR in Consumer Markets?
by Norbert Hildebrand
I am not trying to trick or mislead anyone in this article, I am a big fan of both technologies and think that they are correctly tagged as the ‘Next Big Thing’. I am …
Tags:AR Glasses| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 14| Wearable Market
Hybrids Replace Tablets in Enterprise
by Tom Allen
Juniper Research has published a whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/za8auhw) discussing the role of hybrid (detachable) devices in the workplace – which are gradually replacing tablets. As well as this, the firm looks at phablets’ cannibalisation of …
Tags:business| Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 13
Watching Displays at Night
by Tom Allen
For over 50 years people have been watching TVs at night – often very late right before going to bed. In fact, many also have a TV in their bedroom and watch from bed, …
Tags:Blue Light| DisplayMate
ProLight & Sound 2016 Round Up
by Bob Raikes
Alfalite is a Spanish company from Andalucia that is specialising in the design and manufacture of LED displays. At the moment, and for the last ten years, the displays have been made in China, …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Projectors| ProLight & Sound 2016| Rental and Staging| Vol 23 - Issue 14
Oculus Killer: A $49 DIY Portable VR Console
by Isaac Oburu
With mass production of Next Thing Co.’s PocketC.H.I.P. underway, gamers, hackers, and musicians hotly anticipating the device have a brand new reason to be excited: The $49 handheld superconsole now takes users into the …
Tags:Consoles| Gamer| Virtual Reality
