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Hannstar’s April Result Disappoints

Hannstar Display recorded a disappointing performance in April, with the only increase being in shipments of small and medium panels. The company’s sales for last month fell 20.5% from March and 26.6% from April 2014 to NT$1.5 billion ($48.7 million), bringing sales so far this year to NT$6.7 billion ($217.8 million), down 11.4% year on … Read more

TPV to Ship 70+ Million LCD Products

TPV says it expects to ship more than 70 million LCD products in 2015, of which more than half will contain display and chip components supplied by Taiwanese manufacturers. Innolux, AU Optronics and Mediatek are all predicted to benefit from orders from TPV for components used in LCD TVs and monitors, as well as displays … Read more

Apple Watch Success Needed for a Smartwatch Mega Boom

The smartwatch market will grow from 3.6 million unit shipments in 2014, to 101 million shipments in 2020 according to a new report released today by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. “Apple Watch success will drive the overall smartwatch market,” said Antonios Maroulis, analyst at IHS Technology. … Read more

The Ultra HD TV Market Will Grow in Tandem with the Booming Popularity of 4K TVs

Technavio, a tech-focused research firm, has published a new report on the global ultra HD TV market, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 45% from 2015-2019. Ultra high definition TVs: About the report The latest Technavio report draws attention towards the increasing popularity of 4K TVs, which is presenting growth opportunities for … Read more

Google Patent May Hint at Next Google Glass

Google Glass patent

Patents are tricky as they give us a glimpse of a potential development of new products, though it may also lead us in a direction that may never be realized. Google has been awarded US Patent No. 9,024,843 describing a new form of augmented reality device. In this new application, Google describes an augmented reality … Read more

UltraHD Topic is Hot

The next speaker was our own Bob Raikes, who outlined that the panel and TV set industry is already geared up for UltraHD and quoted the recent comment from DisplaySearch’s Paul Gray that by 2018, all TV panels above 50″ would be UltraHD. The content of Bob’s talk is well known to Large Display Monitor … Read more

New Developments in Modulation and Demod Allow Higher Bandwidths

Peter Nayler is from STMicroelectronics There will be more than 3 billion connected people by the end of this year around the world. In rural areas other, wired technolgies, are not able to deliver connectivity but satellite can get everywhere. Satellite broadband is relatively high cost per bit, has limited bandwidth and relatively high latency. … Read more

SES Sees Continued Growth

Daniel Biedermann is SVP of corporate development at SES and he started by saying that there are a lot of national satellite initiatives for making satellites, partly attracted by Chinese money and interest, so growth has been negative for satellite makers. Satellite operators have seen some growth (around 5.5% per year) and is expected to … Read more

Times Square Under Threat from ’60s Legislation

A 2012 ruling, which added New York’s Times Square to the USA’s Highway Beautification Act, is threatening the iconic billboards. The 1965 Act limits the size of signs along roadways to less than 1,200ft² (around 110m²). Failure to comply could see about $90 million in federal highway funding withheld from the city. However, an NYC … Read more