HbbTV & DTG Presents HbbTV Symposium
The HbbTV and DTG have announced the dates for the 2015 HbbTV Symposium, which will take place at 30 Euston Square, London on 8th and 9th December 2015.
Toshiba’s Vision for the Business Market
Toshiba has launched its Business Vision software, which was first shown at ISE 2015 (Toshiba to Compete in Signage Software). Specifically designed for digital signage, Business Vision comes in two different versions: ‘Business Vision One’, a stand-alone option with pre-installed templates; or ‘Business Vision Cloud’, with advanced functionality such as remote content management and multi-device … Read more
Connected Device Penetration Will Explode Worldwide
There will be at least five connected media devices in every household in the world by 2019, according to Merrick Kingston – principal analyst at IHS. The world’s mature hardware market will still be the USA by 2019, with more than 10 devices per household – but other markets will still see strong growth. ‘Screened’ … Read more
Merck: Samsung Will Return to OLED TVs in 2017
Brian Daniels, senior VP at Merck, says that Samsung is still committed to OLED panels – and will return to the OLED TV market by 2017. Quoted in an interview with The Korea Times, Daniels talked about improvements in OLED materials, which will enable cost reductions, Through these, he said, OLED TVs will reach large … Read more
Mediatek to Acquire Richtek
Mediatek has signed a letter of intent with Richtek Technology and plans to launch a tender offer for 35-51% of Richtek’s outstanding shares, valued at $310-$450 million. Having completed the tender offer, Mediatek plans to acquire 100% of Richtek’s stock, completing the deal by the second quarter of 2016. Ming-Kai Tsai, Mediatek chairman & CEO, … Read more
Toshiba Result 09/09/2015
As forecast, Toshiba Corp. reported a net loss for last year of ¥37.8 billion ($311.9 million) on turnover of ¥6.6 trillion ($54.5 billion) and has re-stated its earnings for the last six years. Write downs to Toshiba’s net profit from the years ending March 2009 until March 2014, as well as the first three quarters … Read more
Radiant Opto’s Sales 33% Higher YoY
Radiant Opto-Electronic saw sales in August rise 48.3% sequentially and 33% year on year to NT$5.1 billion ($157.4 million), bringing sales to date to NT$27.3 billion ($842.8 million), down 13.6% compared with the same period of last year. Coretronic fared less well in August, reporting a 17% YoY drop in sales to NT$6.1 billion ($188.3 … Read more
Mediatek Has Ups and Downs
Mediatek’s August performance was better than July, with sales rising 6.1% to NT$19 billion ($586.5 million), though this was down 3.3% year on year. Sales for January to August were down 5.4% from the same period of 2014 at NT$131.5 billion ($4 billion). The company is expecting sales in the third quarter to grow 10-18% … Read more
iPhone’s New 3D Touch Display
Now, just hours away from the the world’s best selling Smartphone next gen product launch, (Sept 9) rumors of a new 3D Touch Display are dominating the news for the newest iPhone (6S and 6S Plus ?) Apple’s Latest Press Invite to the new iPhone product launch now just hours away, where the company will … Read more
Broadcasting Live Events in UHD Needs to be Addressed
The SMPTE has published an interesting article on the debate about the broadcast industry’s leap forward into Ultra High Definition, saying that there now needs to be a discussion about the front end of the UHD transition, particularly the broadcast of live events. The full article can be read here.
ADB Pivots to Software
ADB is a company we like to visit at IBC as it is often a pioneer in technologies. The company has performed something of a pivot, by moving away from making STBs and hardware to developing what it calls “Connected Solutions” and “Connected OS”. The company believes that it will be also be able to … Read more
Panasonic’s OLED TV is a Success for LG Display
At this year’s IFA show in Berlin (think CES for Europe), one of the big stories was the arrival of the first commercial OLED TV from Panasonic. Panasonic’s curved OLED has a lot of circuitry on the rearAlthough Panasonic has shown (very impressive) OLED TVs before, they had just been design and development exercises and … Read more
