Ultra HD first for Romania
The Funbox UltraHD channel is now available on the Ines IPTV service in Romania and supported through GPON (passive optical networking).
TiVo and Samsung Reach Agreement
TiVo Corporation has reached an agreement with Samsung Electronics on a 5-year broad intellectual property licence, covering Samsung’s mobile, consumer electronic, pay-TV and set-top box businesses. As a result, all outstanding litigation and patent challenges will be stopped. It is understood that legal action will be dismissed altogether if certain conditions are met.
TiVo Results 03/11/2016
TiVo Corp. announced it’s FY16 Q3 sales of $153.1 mn, with an increase of 33% over last year’s Q3 sales of $114.9 mn. The FY16 Q3 net income was reported at $49.9 mn, with a major shift from last year’s Q3 net loss of $18.5 mn. The major upturn in quarterly sales was due to … Read more
Universal Electronics Result 03/11/2016
Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) announced FY16 Q3 net sales of $169.2 mn with net income of $7.8 mn, resulting in a net margin of 4.6%. Both the net sales and net income were marginally up from last year’s Q3 figures at $160 mn and $6.3 mn respectively (with net margin of 3.9%). The increase in … Read more
UDC Result 03/11/2016
Universal Display Cor. (OLED) announced FY16 Q3 sales of $30.2 mn with a net loss of $1.5 mn. These results were negative given last year’s Q3 sales of $39.4 mn and a net income of $7.0 mn, however the management indicated that they were in line with FY16 expectations. The net sales for first 9 … Read more
Comcast to launch Netflix on X1
Comcast has confirmed that the Netflix service will be available on its X1 devices across the US. Netflix content will be fully integrated into Xfinity On Demand. “The Netflix integration into the X1 platform means our mutual customers will no longer need to change inputs or juggle remotes,” said Reed Hastings, Netflix Co-Founder and CEO. … Read more
Vimeo To Enter SVOD Market
Vimeo has said that it plans to launch a subscription service. Up to now, Vimeo has relied on payments from content providers as the site doesn’t use advertising (which is why we chose it for our services – Man. Ed.)
Small LCD Volumes to Shrink
Digitimes Research believes that global shipments of small- to medium-size panels will decrease from 2.647 billion units in 2017 to 2.189 billion units in 2021 or a CAGR of negative 4.6%. This will be caused by a shift to AMOLEDs in the smartphone market. Although LCDs will decline, the company believes that the overall handset … Read more
Leader Adds HDR Support to Waveform Monitor
Leader Instruments showed its new high-dynamic-range (HDR) features for our LV5490 4K waveform monitor and LV7390 4K upgradeable rasterizer. The LV5490SER07 HDR option for the LV5490 now enables this instrument to measure both 4K and HD HDR in ITU.BT.2100 Hybrid Log Gamma, Dolby PQ and Sony SLOG-3 protocols. The company will demonstrate the monitor at … Read more
Liberty Grows in CEE in Q3
In its quarterly report, Liberty Global, which recently bought Multimedia Polska (Liberty Global Acquires Multimedia in Poland) did well in Eastern Europe, with 98,000 new customers in Q3, 53,000 in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
PlayStation Vue Now in Browsers
Sony has now made the Playstation Vue OTT video service available on PC & Mac browsers in addition to Android TVs. (PlayStation Vue Available on Android TVs & PCs?
Apple Drops LG Monitor Prices by 25%
Apple and LG have reduced the prices of the new ‘UltraFine’ Thunderbolt monitors that were launched along with the new MacBook Pro. Apple had come in for quite a lot of criticism because it exclusively uses USB Type-C connectors on the new notebook and that will mean that users will have to buy adaptors and … Read more
