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Bang & Olufsen has appointed Martin Kofler to be its new sales director in the DACH region. Kofler joined B&O in May 2014, where he has been leading sales in Switzerland. B&O decided to move him to DACH in line with its focus on a new scalable store concept.
The Sony Professional Roadshow will return to Germany this year. Partners can visit to learn about Sony’s new developments in the fields of home entertainment, digital imaging and audio. The event will start in Berlin (10th-11th February), and move on to Dusseldorf (16th February), Münich (22nd-23rd February) and Hamburg (9th March).
China’s Qihoo 360, an online security services provider, has launched a VR head-mounted display (described as ‘helmet display’ by Shanghai Daily). Details are scarce, but Shanghai Daily did note that the HMD is being launched alongside a new phone, and will cost CNY400 ($60), while the phone will cost CNY3,000 ($455) – so this sounds … Read more
TSMC’s Co-CEO, Mark Liu, has said that he expects the company to post a 5%-10% YoY revenue increase in 2016, compared to 2% growth in the semiconductor market. Smartphones will continue to provide growth momentum for the firm, which has predicted 8% shipment growth for the category overall. Global shipments of PCs, tablets and CE … Read more
LG Display expects its UltraHD OLED TV panel utilisation rates to reach between 80% and 90% this year, say sources in Asia. The company has already reached ‘similar’ rates for 1920 x 1080 units (which it has confirmed in its quarterly investor calls – Man. Ed.) OLED TV panel shipments are forecast to reach 18-20 … Read more
The NBA, with BT Sport and Rogers Communications, ran its first public UltraHD broadcast during a game in London’s O2 Area on the 14th January. BT used its UltraHD production truck and specialised cameras for the event. An NBA game was shown in UltraHD last year, but only to a select audience of executives from … Read more
Yes, CES has been over for almost a week already and I am still suffering from the content overload that CES creates in almost every tech writer on the planet. We each have our areas of interest and area we have to cover and when running around on the show floor it makes for some … Read more
Researchers at Pacific Media Associates (PMA) specialise in market forecast on projectors and displays. The research company announced the latest installment of its Pico Projector Research to celebrate the New Year and much to our surprise, PMA says 2015 was a very happy one for small projectors, especially in China. The group’s research covers standalone, … Read more
HTC’s Vive Pre virtual reality (VR) platform and UA HealthBox™, the first connected fitness system, have been recognized as revolutions in their respective sectors, scooping a total of 22 awards during this year’s CES in Las Vegas. The newly launched products are the latest example of HTC’s commitment to diversifying the company’s offering into emerging … Read more
Epson, the number-one projector manufacturer in the world, today announced $49 replacement lamps for its current line of PowerLite® short-throw and ultra short-throw projectors and BrightLink® interactive projectors. This unprecedented price for genuine Epson lamps reduces the overall cost of projector ownership and increases cost-efficiency for classroom projection technology. “With this new reduced pricing, Epson … Read more
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Ultra HD Television (UHD TV) in Thousand Units. The Global market is further analyzed by the following Screen Sizes: 39 inch to 54 inch, 55 inch, 57 inch to 64 inch, 65 inch, and 70 inch & above. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, … Read more
One of the jobs that we commentators on the technology world have to do is to watch for inflection points – those moments in time when things change and are not the same again afterwards. We detected one of those for OLEDs at CES. The big news was the announcement of notebooks with OLED displays … Read more
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