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Taiwan’s Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) says that as HD panels have become mainstream among China’s newly released smartphone models, several panel makers have started to build new LTPS production lines to manufacture high-end mobile phones. According to MIC, Chinese panel makers in particular have taken a more aggressive stance, such as BOE setting … Read more
A new Nikkei report has forecast that Sharp will report an operating loss in the second quarter of the year of ¥35 billion ($282 million), compared with a profit in Q2 a year earlier of ¥4.6 billion ($36.9 million). The company has continued to struggle with falling LCD smartphone panel prices sold to Chinese vendors. … Read more
HTC has launched four new HTC Desire mid-range handsets in the US – the 626, 626s (both 5″ 1280 x 720), 526 (4.7″) and 520 (4.5″), both 540 x 960. The OS is Android with Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processors. The 626 has a 5 MP camera, while the others are 2 MP.
Reports from the region state that Xiaomi has a new TV, the Mi TV 2S which is said to be based around a 48″ UltraHD panel. The model was not yet on the Xiaomi website as we went to press. Reports say that the TV will be a smart product based on an MStar 6A928 … Read more
AMD’s second quarter net loss widened to $181 million from $36 million a year earlier, while the company’s net loss for the first six months expanded to $361 million from $56 million for the corresponding period of last year. AMD’s turnover in Q2 fell 32.7% to $942 million from $1.4 billion in the second quarter … Read more
Six of Spain’s broadcasters, from a group of nine, are emerging as the favourites to be awarded licences to operate new services on the free-to-air DTT platform. The companies named so far are Mediaset, Atresmedia, Group Secuoya, 13TV, Vocento and Real Madrid and the government is expected to allocate the licences by 19th October, with … Read more
The EBU’s Forecast 2015 conference will take place on 20th and 21st October in Geneva. The preliminary programme has now been released and is available here. Speakers will address topics including the release of the 700 MHz band, how the DTT platform can prosper, and which strategies broadcasters can deploy in the current media landscape. … Read more
There has been an ongoing debate in the US about the re-transmission of free-to-air (FTA) content by companies that have wanted to offer new services, the most famous being Aereo which eventually failed and went into Chapter 11 in November 2014 (Aereo Files for Chapter 11) and was bought by TiVO in March 2015 (TiVo … Read more
Platt Retail Institute, with sponsorship from Tyco, has published a white paper covering the way that retailers use in store signage, promotion and, particularly, big data and analytics to understand multi-channel purchasing and in-store behaviour. The paper can be downloaded without payment here (registration required). Source Platt Retail Institute Analyst Comment We also saw this … Read more
FSN of South Korea has announced the FSB-800UHB, a monitor controller board that can support DCI-4K and UltraHD with either four 3G-SDI inputs or four HDMI inputs. The controller supports 8 channel LVDS, 8 lane eDP and 8 lane V by 1 for panel connections. Details are to be finalised close to release in Q4 … Read more
We recently featured a press release from 3D Tau on our Display Daily mail-out. Our friend, Dr. Jon Peddie, had a closer look and sent us this article… Stereo 3D, or S3D as we like to call it, got rejuvenated around 2009 when TV set manufacturers started introducing products, some glasses-free, some with glasses. The … Read more
Image credit:Sargent Group/University of Toronto, EngineeringScientists at the University of Toronto have published results of tests on a new “hyper-efficient” light-emitting crystal formed by combining perovskite and colloidal quantum dots (QDs) using heteroepitaxy. A “scaffold” of QDs is created, then the perovskite crystal is grown around it. Growing them this way avoids faults at the … Read more
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