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Technicolor Result 20/10/15

Technicolor announced increased turnover of €877 million ($987.9 million) for Q3 versus €843 million ($949.6 million), indicating an increase of 4% YoY. In terms of segments, Entertainment Services was the strongest, with a 28% increase to €423 million ($476.5 million) from €330 million ($371.7 million), supporting the group turnover increase in spite of a fall … Read more

Global STB Market to Hit $24 Billion by 2022

Transparency Market Research released a new report that forecasts that the global STB market will reach a value of $24 billion by 2022, with CAGR of 6.4% from 2015 onwards. The firm said that digitization continues to be a factor. 31% of the market is in the Asia Pacific region which also has the highest … Read more

German AV to Top €10 Billion

Revenue generated by the German AV market will exceed €10 billion this year for the first time. The forecast comes from the Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Audiovisual Services in Germany (VPRT). VPRT expects the market to rise 5.5% YoY, based on a total revenue generation of €10.2 billion. VPRT forecasts 8.3% growth in the … Read more

360Heros Claims 360 Deg Camera Patent

360Heros of the US said that it has been issued with a patent covering the multi-camera 360 video holding assemblies it has been developing. The firm said that US patent for invention number 9,152,019 B2 is for camera holding assemblies which hold multiple cameras in a preset, 360 Plug-n-Play orientation. The orientations falling under the … Read more

Digital Projection Wows CEDIA with Insight 4K Projectors

Insight Media’s Chris Chinnock was asked by Digital Projection to give presentations about how to create great home theater images and to highlight DP’s two Insight projectors. On display were the Insight 4K Laser projector and the Insight 4K Dual LED projector. Chinnock started the presentation by describing four key factors in producing a great … Read more

Touch Struggles on Notebooks

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IHS said that touch panel shipments for notebooks were down 7% QoQ in the second quarter at 4.6 million units according to a report in the CTimes. The total market in the first half was 9.5 million from 10.2 million in 2014. However, revenues were down 23.9% to $104.86 million, bringing the total market to … Read more

RAI Boosts Tivusat HD Channels to 11

RAI of Italy said that it would boost its HD channel count to 11 on its free-to-air (FTA) satellite platform, TivuSat. The current four channels will be joined by by three additional channels by January and four more in September 2016. There will also be a test UltraHD channel at the end of 2016 or … Read more