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Hannstar Display saw sales and panel shipments fall in August, both month on month and year on year. Sales for the month of NT$1.3 billion ($40.1 million) were 5% lower than July and 27.2% down on August 2014, while cumulative sales so far this year declined 21.3% to NT$12.1 billion ($374 million). Hannstar’s shipments of … Read more
AU Optronics (AUO) reported an 11.3% month on month increase in sales in August to NT$30.5 billion ($938.1 million), though this was 14.1% down on August 2014. Sales for the first eight months of the year reached NT$245.5 billion ($7.5 billion), down 8.1% year on year. AUO shipped 9.1 million large LCD panels in August, … Read more
Sharp’s presence this year was extremely disappointing. Although the stand was quite large, and in a central location in Hall 6, most of it was private. There was no-one around to answer questions, and we had a hard time even finding out which TVs were new. As for release dates and prices…forget it! Five new … Read more
Tongfang Global is the Chinese company that owns the Seiki and Orion TV brands – the former being the most well-known. As Seiki, the company launched what was at the time the world’s cheapest UltraHD TV, in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 16) – low cost alternatives to premium products are a speciality. Tongfang … Read more
Escatec is to launch an LED-cooling solution, which has implications for displays, at the LED Professional Symposium, between 22nd and 24th September in Austria. The Heat Spreader solution uses LEDs soldered onto a copper substrate; this is up to 10-times more effective at dissipating heat than current materials, says Escatec. The design (referred to as … Read more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reached an agreement to acquire Elemental Technologies, a US-based supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to AWS, the acquisition will bring together Elemental’s video solutions with the AWS Cloud platform to provide media and entertainment companies with a … Read more
Emagin is to raise $4.5 million through the sale of shares, and will use the proceeds for “general corporate purposes, including R&D, sales and marketing, and working capital”. The company has entered into an agreement with Craig-Hallum Capital Group, which will sell the shares.
Samsung took over the entire 109 DOOH screens in Vienna’s Stephansplatz metro station for own week at the beginning of this month, to promote its new Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones. The station deploys 32″ screens along the escalators and 80″ displays at the station level.
According to a new report from Taiwan’s Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), Huawei outperformed the rest of the smartphone market in Q2, selling 28.2 million smartphones, up 54.9% from Q1. MIC believes that Huawei’s full-year shipments in 2015 could break 100 million units. Shipments of other brands such as LG, Xiaomi and ZTE continued … Read more
Freeview Play is set to launch in October on TVs from Panasonic, Humax, Vestel and Manhattan TV. Guy North, managing director of Freeview, said: “We believe that Freeview Play is set to become the new normal way of watching TV”. Panasonic will also introduce Freeview Play products including three Blu-ray recorders and two digital TV … Read more
Microsoft’s keynote speech, by Nick Parker (corporate VP of the OEM division), was really just an excuse to show off the new Windows 10 devices that have been launched in recent months, as well as showcase one or two that are still to come. The event was opened by Jens Heithecker, executive director of IFA. … Read more
Ultra High Definition, or UHD video quality is rapidly becoming a mass-market expectation, as the move by producers to adopt the new TV image quality gains pace. Ten of the best known TV brands in the world now carry the UHD logo developed by DIGITALEUROPE, half of which joined in the past six months. Grundig, … Read more
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