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Ingram Micro reported Q3 net profit of $65 million, a 10% decline YoY from $72 million. Turnover was down 6% YoY at $10.5 billion from $11.2 billion. For the 9 month period, net profit was $73.9 million, nearly half of the previous year’s 9 month period. Turnover was flat for the 9 month period at … Read more
LG Display is said to be looking to the small-size OLED market, increasing its efforts to market these types of screens at Chinese vendors. Asian sources say that the company is talking to both Oppo and Vivo about supply them with more panels, offering them ‘major discounts’ as they ramp up production of OLED handsets. … Read more
Google is to ‘kill off’ the Chrome OS, according to the Wall Street Journal – sort of. Actually, Chrome will be folded into Android. The new combined OS will be revealed in 2017, but an early version is expected to be shown next year, according to sources. The move is a recognition of the fact … Read more
LeTV has set a shipment goal of 10 million units for its new smartphone, the Le1S (Sharp Supplies Panel for 120″ TV).
Innolux reported Q3 financial results with a net profit of NT$ 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’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
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 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
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® 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
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 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
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