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AMD reported Q1 net loss of $109 million, down 40% YoY from $180 million. Turnover for the period was $832 million, down 20% YoY from $1 billion. Lower product volumes across segments were responsible for the weaker financials.
LG Display reported Q1 2016 net profit of 1 billion Won ($843,000), down from 476 billion Won ($401 million) in the same quarter for 2015. Turnover was 5.9 trillion Won ($5 billion), down 15% YoY from 7 trillion Won ($5.9 billion). Declining panel prices, particularly of lower size panels (less than 30″) were responsible for … Read more
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced a record-setting 700 million lbs (317.5 million kg) of consumer electronics have been recycled under the eCycling Leadership Initiative (ELI). The consumer technology industry has recycled in record numbers over the last five years, according to the Fifth Annual Report of the eCycling Leadership Initiative. The recycling total … Read more
Digital Multimedia Technology Co., Ltd. (DMT), a leading manufacturer of Pay-TV Set-Top Boxes (STB), and iWedia, a leading provider of software solutions for TV devices to service operators and Consumer Electronics manufacturers, today announced the availability of a common offering for UHD IPTV/OTT hybrid STB running Android TV. The offer is made of iWedia’s Teatro-3.5 … Read more
Apple reported Q2’16 net profit of $10.5 billion, down 23% YoY from $13.6 billion. Turnover was $50.6 billion, down 13% YoY from $58 billion. The company experienced the first ever decline in iPhone sales by volume (down 16%), reflected in the lower financials. A bright spot was seen in the services business, where revenues rose … Read more
IHS has said that LCD panel makers are at risk of incurring ‘deep losses’ this year, as Chinese makers ‘aggravate already severe oversupply’. The comments were made at a display conference in Asia. The global supply of LCD panels will rise 6% YoY in 2016, doubling the 3% growth in demand. This will mostly be … Read more
iWedia and Digital Multimedia Technology have collaborated to produce an UltraHD IPTV/OTTT hybrid set-top box, running Android TV. It uses iWedia’s Teatro-3.5 STB software for Android TV, running on DMT’s hardware. The box itself uses a Broadcom SoC and features 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage; it supports HDMI 2.0, USBB (x2), RJ45, RCA, … Read more
PMA has published its data for large (32″+) displays sold in the USA, for Q1’16. Sales favoured large sizes and premium features, such as UltraHD resolution. 60″+, UltraHD and interactive displays all sold well in the quarter – combining to boost revenues by 22% YoY. Volume also rose in double digits, although not at the … Read more
Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola has hailed LG OLED TV as the next frontier in cinematic home entertainment. Speaking about watching Apocalypse Now on the TV, Ford Coppola said, “[I]t was so lifelike that I felt like I was back in the director’s chair, nearly 40 years ago.”
SiliconCore had a 4K LED video wall on display at NAB made from cabinets with an LED pitch of 0.95mm. This was placed next to a display of the same size (165”) composed of 1.9mm pitch LEDs that created a 1920×1080 resolution wall. The idea was to allow people to see the difference in pixel … Read more
I have to confess: something scared me. It scared me a lot. The source of my fear could be found in a recent Display Daily entitled “The Relationship Between 3D Cinema and Headaches.” Certainly, Art Berman did an excellent job of objectively reporting the results of the study. But what scared me were the implications … Read more
I recently attended the Future of Cinema Conference and NAB to learn more about UHD, HDR, WCG, VR and more. And did I get an eye and ear full…. One of the highlights was the Lytro Cinema camera. This is a monster at nearly 7 feet long (>2m) that can capture 755 megapixels at 120 … Read more
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