LeTV Has Ambitious Smartphone Plans
LeTV has set a shipment goal of 10 million units for its new smartphone, the Le1S (Sharp Supplies Panel for 120″ TV).
Innolux Result 01/11/15
Innolux reported Q3 financial results with a net profit of NT$ 3.5 billion, the lowest in five quarters, down 52.7% YoY. Turnover hit a five year low with a 21.5% YoY decline, at NT$ 88.75. In spite of higher volume of small and medium TV panels, Innolux failed to increase it’s profitability, primarily on account … Read more
Panasonic Brings Windows 10 to Toughpad
Panasonic’s Toughpad line of rugged tablets holds several UltraHD models, and the company has just introduced its first model running Windows 10. Going by the name of FZ-Y1, the 20″ ‘tablet’ features a new processor, graphics engine and storage options. Aimed squarely at business users, the unit runs Windows 10 Professional (which can be changed … Read more
TWC Has Best Q3 in Nine Years
Time Warner Cable’s residential video customers fell by 7,000 in Q3 – its best third quarter since 2006. Last year, the company lost 184,000 subscribers in Q3.
ARHT Media Commercializing an Interactive Display Technology
ARHT Media Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has developed and is commercializing a display system that the company has named Augmented Reality Holographic Technology (ARHT). The first point to note is that the term holographic is used in the product name, company literature and in articles written about the ARHT product. As is so often the case … Read more
Pseudo UHD: Watch Out for Ultra HD TVs with Reduced Resolution!
It’s true, UHD TVs with a reduced subpixel count really do exist. And it seems that even the well-known brand LG has no qualms about launching Ultra HD televisions with cut-down definition. Could this ultimately do a disservice to the triumphant introduction of UHD resolution? I think so – and I would like to offer … Read more
Vuzix Experiencing Order Growth as Enterprise Customers Convert Pilot Programs to Commercial Deployments
Vuzix® Corporation, (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that the company is seeing growing commitments for orders of M100 Smart Glasses from enterprise customers, as well as rising interest from leading technology companies in partnering with … Read more
Panasonic Emphasises Laser Cost-Savings
Where is 4k demand coming from in the rental market, asked Panasonic’s Hartmut Kulessa? From new applications and opportunities, he answered. Panasonic ran into the same problem as Barco (Barco is Ready for Lamp-Free Projection) when it came to developing a high-resolution projector for the rental market: there were no chips. However, the company has … Read more
Lightware Discusses 4k Distribution Challenges
Lightware is a relatively new company, established in 2002, focused on visual engineering. It manufactures matrix switches, extenders and other accessories for the pro AV market. Gergely Vida is the company’s MD, and presented an interesting discussion on the challenges facing the 4k market. He broke these down in to three points: HDCP 2.2; Bandwidth … Read more
Lang Fosters Collaborative Working
In the middle of the (very European) long lunch break, Lang offered tours of its new buildings. The company has been on the Lindlar industrial estate since 1998, and in the beginning the founder’s mother thought that the single building would be too big! Times have definitely changed. Lang now has a whole building dedicated … Read more
Barco is Ready for Lamp-Free Projection
Barco is one of Lang’s partners, supplying projectors, LFDs and infrastructure products. Alexis Skatchkoff and Abbe Westerlundh are engineers at the firm and were talking about the company’s new developments. Barco was not the first company with a 4k projector outside of the cinema market, because it didn’t feel that the technology at the time … Read more
Samsung Reveals First Profit Growth in Two Years
Samsung Electronics reported a significant increase of 29% in Q3 2015 profits, to KR₩ 5.5 trillion ($4.7 billion), up from KR₩ 4.22 trillion YoY, although down from KR₩ 7.5 trillion QoQ. Turnover saw a 9% rise to KR₩ 51.68 trillion ($50 billion) from KR₩ 47.45 trillion ($40 billion) YoY. Net profit was supported by a … Read more
