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Idemitsu Kosan of Japan and Doosan Corporation of South Korea have concluded a memorandum of understanding,covering a new OLED business arrangement and cross-patent licensing agreement. Under the terms, each company will be able to develop, manufacture and sell OLED materials in the area of the other’s material-related patents – under certain conditions. It is expected … Read more
FlatpanelsHD visited LG in Korea and received some updates on the company’s OLED plans. The company considers the technology as the next step in consumer electronics. LG says that it is raising yields and lowering production costs faster than was the case for LCD 10 years ago. It is thought that OLED TVs will become … Read more
Lenovo reported its first net loss in 6 years of $714 million for Q3 2015. Turnover was up, however, by 16% YoY at $12.2 billion, from $10.4 billion. A combination of a one time restructuring charge of $599 million, $300 million of unsold smartphones and poor PC demand, despite a doubling of PC shipments in … Read more
TCL is CSOT’s parent companyCSOT has said that it produced 203,000 substrates from its two G8.5 fabs in October: a 40.5% YoY rise.
Jerry Shen, CEO of Asus, has said that the company will be able to ship 20.5 million smartphones this year. 13.5 million were shipped in Q1-Q3, and the company plans to ship another 7 million in Q4. Shipments are expected to rise 46% in 2016, to 30 million units. Shen also said that Asus will … Read more
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset’s pay-DTT subsidiary, Mediaset Premium, has increased its subscriber base by 112,000 since June. Its total base now stands at 1.8 million.
The CSA, the French regulator, has supported a proposal from the Senate, which calls for the introduction of the DVB-T2 and HEVC platforms for UltraHD services. The CSA supports the use of these platforms for all UltraHD services as well as HbbTV.
Visionsense Corp. (Philadelphia, PA) has developed a high definition 3D camera based on an unconventional technology. The need for an unusual 3D camera is a consequence of the fact that Visionsense products are a family of endoscopes in which the diameter of the device and hence the 3D camera is as small as 4 mm. … Read more
The CCW (Content and Communications World) in New York has adopted a new name and is now called NAB Show New York. It still contains the SatCon conference and adds InfoComm Connections as a sub-show to its offering. This year, the addition of InfoComm did not result in a different focus of the conference or … Read more
My colleague Norbert Hildebrand has already written about CES Unveiled (Display Gadgets at CES Unveiled) and I won’t repeat his coverage. I do want to fill in two gaps where he missed items of interest. IonVR showed their smartphone-based VR display at CES Unveiled. Fundamentally, it was similar to the cardboard one from Google and … Read more
At CCW this week (to be known in the future as NAB Show – New York), Canon demonstrated its recently announced 4K LCoS REALiS Projector. The REALiS series of projectors is known as the Power Projector or XEED series in other areas of the world. Meko had previously published an article on this projector (Canon … Read more
Tablet TV LLC, the joint venture between Motive Television plc and Granite Broadcasting Corporation, announced that it will begin taking pre-orders at 00:01 AM ET, Thursday, November 12th for TabletTV Plus, its inclusive TV Unplugged solution providing viewers with everything that television and the internet have to offer in a single place. Supplies of the … Read more
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