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
Lang in the Mist
Lang AG is a distributor, rental & staging partner and educator in the areas of large-format displays and projectors. Operating across Europe, the company celebrated the opening of a new building – the Lang Forum – on its campus in Lindlar, Germany with an event for its reseller and supplier partners. As press, Display Monitor … Read more
Smart Watches to Trump mHealth Wearables for Integration into the $34 Billion Smart Home Market
The smart home market, projected to reach US$34 billion in 2020 is becoming the center of activity for multiple IoT ecosystems, including wearables. In a report from ABI Research, smart watches will drive the most interest for wearables integration into the smart home even though fitness trackers were approximately two-thirds of all wearable device shipments … Read more
Apple Watch Has 74% Smartwatch Share in Q3 2015
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew an impressive 510 percent annually to hit a record 6.1 million units in the third quarter of 2015. In first place with a commanding 74 percent marketshare, Apple Watch continues to catalyze demand and set the pace in the smartwatch industry. Cliff Raskind, … Read more
