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88 million smart TVs will be shipped worldwide this year, representing around 41.2% of the worldwide LCD TV market, according to Taiwan’s MIC. Smart TV penetration has exceeded 50% in Japan, thanks to consumers’ adoption of high-end products, says MIC analyst Cindy Gu. Meanwhile, penetration is just below 40% in Western Europe, where broadcasters have … Read more
Asustek’s April sales were at the lowest monthly level that the company has experienced since May 2013. Last month’s result was down 21.6% sequentially and 4% year on year at NT$33 billion ($1.1 billion), taking the total for the year to date to NT$144.9 billion ($4.7 billion), broadly unchanged from a year earlier. The company … Read more
Innolux saw sales in April fall 12.2% sequentially and 15.2% year on year to NT$32.4 billion ($1 billion), bringing sales so far this year to NT$132.5 billion ($4.3 billion), 3.7% higher than the same period of 2014. The company shipped 10 million large panels in April, a decrease of 11.3% MoM, taking the number of … Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) both reported sequential and year on year increases in sales last month, though Mediatek fared less well as sales fell month on month and YoY. TSMC achieved a 4.2% MoM and 21.7% YoY increase in sales last month to NT$75.3 billion ($2.4 billion), bringing sales so far … Read more
Nvidia recorded a net profit in the first quarter of the year of $134 million on turnover of $1.15 billion, which was little changed from the previous year’s Q1 result of a net profit of $137 million on turnover of $1.11 billion.
The Third Man, Orson Welles’ 1949 film, is to get an UltraHD restoration to celebrate the actor’s 100th birthday. It will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month, followed by a limited release in select US cities, starting with New York on 26th June.
Technavio has said that it expects the UltraHD TV market to grow at a 45% CAGR between 2015 and 2019. Find the company’s report (paid) at http://tinyurl.com/ksfwud4.
A survey released by TiVo has shown that the largest group of new ‘cord cutting’ customers are former satellite subscribers. The survey, from late 2015, polled more than 500 purchasers of TiVo’s Roamio OTA DVR. 32% were former satellite DVR users, who cited cost and dissatisfaction with overall features as their primary reasons for leaving … Read more
This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 22″ wide category covering 16:10 models with resolution of 1680 x 1050. There are 12 brands featured in the advertising with Philips, Iiyama and NEC Displays the top three advertised brands across all three countries. The ranking is the same in the UK. In France, Philips … Read more
The Society for Information Display (SID) is partnering with Cowen and Company and IHS for the 11th Annual Investors Conference at Display Week, which runs from May 31-June 5, 2015, at the San Jose Convention Center. Part of the four-day SID Business Track, this day-long event will be held immediately following the Display Week keynote … Read more
We enjoyed this event which was very interesting. Thomas Wrede of SES was a congenial and energetic host. UltraHD and HDR in particular are hot topics and there was some useful information. The SAT>IP initiative is also an interesting one – it would be fascinating to understand why it is not really implemented by an … Read more
The final speaker was Hyung Lim from DMT in Korea, although the firm also has offices in the US. DMT has developed a new box, 4SeTV which allows the merging and playback of four different streams of video so that users can, for example, watch four different sports programmes at the same time on a … Read more
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