subscribe

Foxconn, Pegatron Foresee Weak Q2

Foxconn Electronics and Pegatron both reported strong first quarter results but cautioned that the second quarter would be weaker before sales rebound in the second half of the year. Foxconn’s Q1 net profit jumped 55.5% year on year to NT$30.4 billion ($999.1 million), the highest profit for the January-March quarter in the company’s history, while … Read more

Mediaset, Sky Italia Negotiate Pay-TV Deal

Mediaset and Sky italia are reported to be in negotiations about setting up a joint venture pay-TV company. According to Italian sources, Sky Italia would take the majority stake in the JV, which is certain to attract the attention of Italy’s Anti-trust Authority. The two companies’ combined pay-TV subscriber base is in excess of seven … Read more

NHK Compresses 8k to 85Mbps

NHK will show its latest developments in Super Hi-Vision (8k) transmission at its Science & Technology Research Labs open days (28th – 31st May). Content will be sent to the location of the event using NHK’s BSAT-1 satellite; a compression system will shrink the 72Gbps stream to 85Mbps for broadcast, using HEVC encoding and the … Read more

Mitsubishi Announces Next Generation FLEXConnect In-Car Infotainment System

Mitsubishi Electric FLEXConnect Complete Display

Mitsubishi Electric has announced its latest generation of the FLEXConnect In-Vehicle Infotainment systems (IVI) in a press release. The latest system provides a cost effective three screen user interface. The displays contain touch and swipe technology to provide a safe and consistent user interface to the car systems. The three screen interface includes a 12.1″ … Read more

Smartphones Spur Shift in Small/Medium Display Panel Demand, IHS Says

Ongoing improvements in smartphone display performance is leading to increasing demand for high-resolution panels with lower power consumption requirements, which are not supported by the most common legacy technologies (non-crystalline thin-film silicon or a-Si for short). According to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS),, the leading global source of critical information and insight, overall global shipments of … Read more