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Taiwan Monthly Results – June 2017

We’ll summarise all the Taiwan monthly financial reports this week. Asustek was up 24% on last month in June, at $1.3 ...

Planar/Leyard shows Whopping 8K LED Video Wall at NAB

The most impressive display at NAB was undoubtedly the giant 8K LED video wall in the Planar/Leyard booth. It was 30’x ...

Sharp Plans Fourfold Growth in LCD TVs

Sharp plans to increase its LCD TV sales by four times over the next four years, according to Japanese sources as ...

Is the Display Business too Big for Any Single Company?

The other day, Norbert pointed out in an article in our subscription newsletter that Apple appears to be trying to develop ...

Asian Smartphone Market: India Leads Growth as China Continues to Slow in 2014 Q3

Market intelligence – According to the latest research from International Data Corporation (IDC), the smartphone market in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) posted ...

Orange Sells Smart TVs

Orange Spain will lower the price of its smart TVs, from the 1st December, in order to compete with rival Telefonica ...

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NAB is All About Codecs

by Tom Allen

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2016 show will take place in Las Vegas between the 16th and 21st April. There will be a renewed focus on traditional broadcasting, using the ATSC 3.0 platform, …

Tags:Broadcast| HEVC (H.265)| Interface Extenders| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Licensing| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| NEC| SOCs| Switchers| Testing| TFT| Video Encoders & Decoders| Vol 23 - Issue 13

A Closer Look at a QD Monitor

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the Philips E-line 27″ 276E6 monitor at IFA last year. The monitor is unusual in that it uses QD Vision’s Color IQ quantum dot technology to give a wide colour gamut. …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 23 - Issue 12| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Ofcom

Ofcom Discusses 700MHz

by Tom Allen

Ofcom is currently holding consultations on the 700MHz spectrum clearance in the UK. Points under consideration are: what support viewers might require; whether public funding should be made available; and whether support should be …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Terrestrial (DTT)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Japanese UHD Will Double Next Year

by Tom Allen

Mitsubishi Research has forecast that adoption of UltraHD TV sets in Japan will grow rapidly, starting next year, Advanced Television reports. Around 1.2 million were purchased in 2015, and 3.3 million are expected to …

Tags:4k| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mitsubishi| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 13

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 13

by Tom Allen

We now have a specification list for Acer‘s laser gaming projector, the Z850 (Acer Brings Laser to Gaming). Despite being described as ‘mirrorless’, it is in fact a DLP unit – there are no …

Tags:Acer| Curved Displays| Dell| Desktop Monitors| DLP Projectors| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Notebooks| Nvidia| Panasonic| Rugged Displays| Samsung| UST Projectors| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13| Workstations

Kyulux

LG Display Invests in TADF

by Tom Allen

Image: OLED-InfoKyushu University of Japan spun off a new company called Kyulux last month, which aims to commercialise thermally-activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters developed by the university. Kyulux raised ¥1.5 billion ($13.5 million) in …

Tags:Investment| Japan| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| TADF| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Smartphones Falling, but PCs Will Rebound

by Tom Allen

Worldwide smartphone sales will grow at a single-digit rate for the first time this year, says Gartner. The firm expects growth of just 7% in the global market, which will reach 1.5 billion units. …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 13| Worldwide

Foxconn Raises Chinese Investment

by Tom Allen

Foxconn is to deepen its investment in several companies in China, covering industries including handsets, glass and optical lenses. The investments will total $1.65 billion. $1.5 billion of this will go to a subsidiary …

Tags:China| Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13

WebEye VR is a Consumer Virtual Reality Webcam

by Arthur Berman

Several social media web sites, notably including Facebook and YouTube, are in the early stages of offering capabilities for viewing and sharing immersive video formats such as stereoscopic 3D. The current reality is, however, …

Tags:3D Cameras| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Microsoft Talks about Holoportation

by Norbert Hildebrand

In case AR/VR is not ‘blue sky’ enough for you, Microsoft is upping its game by talking about Holoportation. The firm is using the term to describe a method of advanced video conferencing, where …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| 3D Depth Cameras| Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Acer Invests in Chrome

by Tom Allen

Acer has announced a long-life Chromebook: said to be the world’s first lasting up to 14 hours on a single charge. The Chromebook 14 (SDK: CB3-431) has a 14″ display with 1366 x 768 …

Tags:Acer| All-in-ones (AIOs)| Chrome| Chromebooks| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13