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Sentiment Remains Low in Russia

In the May/June period, Russia’s Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) rose almost 14.3 points – although it remained negative. The DBCI, complied by OVAB Europe, measures sentiment in the digital signage industry. Russia’s result reflects the slightly-negative overall feeling in the market. However, there was a significant increase in the number of companies describing … Read more

Victorinox Chooses to Differentiate Signage

Photo: InvidisSystem integrator Netvico has rolled out digital signage to five different Victorinox stores worldwide. The Stuttgart-based company installed a video wall, called the Red Cross Wall, in each location. Construction differs by store. For example, five 46″ LCD screens (1920 x 1080) formed the wall in the flagship Dusseldorf store, but two 70″ LCD … Read more

Three Tuners in Loewe’s Premium Reference Series

Loewe’s Reference TV line has been refreshed with a new 55″ UltraHD model. Like Loewe’s other TVs, this is a premium set, with an aluminium frame, anti-reflective display and dual front-facing 60W speakers. The new model is a smart TV, with HDMI (x4, x1 carrying UltraHD at 60fps), component, Scart, VGA and USB (x3, x1 … Read more

Oculus Redesigns Rift, Introduces Gesture Controls

After many years, Oculus VR has revealed the final design of its consumer headset – set to be released in Q1’16. As well as the Rift headset, Oculus showed off circular controllers that will be used to send commands to the device. The headset has two OLED displays, a dial to adjust focus (many VR … Read more

Irico to Build 8.5G Facility

China’s Irico Electronics is to build new 8.5G glass substrate back-end production facilities, at an estimated cost of $50.7 million. The new plant will have an annual production capacity of 950,000 substrates, supplying companies such as CEC Panda and BOE. Irico also has six 5G lines and three 6G lines, which produced 1.21 million substrates … Read more

Foxconn Sales Fell 14% in May

Foxconn Electronics saw sales fall 14.4% sequentially to NT$301.6 billion ($9.7 billion) in May, though this was 12.6% higher than a year earlier. May’s result brought sales so far this year to NT$1.7 trillion ($54.9 billion), 15.4% higher than the same period of last year. The company’s sales are expected to continue to fall during … Read more

Sharp Highlights Free Form Concepts

We were impressed with the Sharp Free Form displays that we saw at CES, but we were unable to get much more information, so we were pleased to catch up with the company at SID to get more background. Sharp told us that the key breakthrough was in developing IGZO technology, which allows the gate … Read more