HTC CFO: Outsourcing Will Rise
HTC’s CFO, Chang Chia-lin, has said that the company is likely to raise its smartphone outsourcing orders to ODM partners this year. The move will be made to cope with emerging market demand.
Radiant Predicts High Smartphone BLU Shipments
Radiant Opto-Electronics expects backlight units (BLUs) for smartphone applications to represent between 20% and 25% of its consolidated revenues in the second half of the year. The company said that it would invest NT$3 billion ($98 million) in automated equipment to raise smartphone BLU production.
HDMI Upgrades Will Depend on Manufacturer
In an interview with HD Guru, Jeff Park – senior technical specifications manager for HDMI LLC – said that updating to v2.0a of the standard (HDR Formats Come to HDMI) would depend on the manufacturer. How a given HDMI device is upgraded to v2.0a is “solely dependent on the manufacturer and their system design. The … Read more
Orange Branches Out With TV Stick
Orange has launched an HDMI dongle, simply called the TV Stick. The product acts as a small form factor STB. It will be deployed in Romania first, followed by France and other European countries. The Stick is based on Espial’s HTML5 client software.
Cablevision will Offer Hulu Plus to its Customers
Cablevision announced that it will carry Hulu Plus for its Optimum customers. The agreement will be the first resell agreement Hulu is offering to any provider. According to the press release, both sides seem to be trying to reach the part of the consumers that they do not normally address with their content offering. The … Read more
Global Mobile Phone Shipments Reach 445 Million Units in Q1 2015
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile phone shipments grew 8 percent annually to reach 445 million units in the first quarter of 2015. Apple was the star performer, as it jumped from 11 percent to 14 percent marketshare in the past year, due to strength in China. Woody Oh, Director at … Read more
LG Releases New G4 Smartphone
LG Electronics has released its new G4 Android smartphone. The latest model of the LG phablet comes with a 5.5″ QHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution resulting in a pixel density of 538ppi. It also adds quantum dot technology to the display, calling it an “IPS Quantum Display”, and it is better in every way compared … Read more
Samsung Overtakes Apple for Smartphone Crown
With a renewed focus on lower-cost models, Samsung regained the top spot in the global smartphone market in Q1’15, said IDC. Shipment volumes were seasonally down QoQ – a difference exacerbated by Q4’14’s record results. 336.5 million smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q1’15: up 16.7% YoY (from 288.5 million), but down 10.9% QoQ (from 377.5 … Read more
iScan Micro is Tiny Upscaler
A tiny video enhancement system has been developed by DVDO. The iScan Micro connects between an HDMI source and the display and uses VRS Clearview. It is able to scale content to UltraHD at 60fps. As well as resolution scaling, the iScan Micro features mosquito noise reduction; edge and detail enhancement; and video smoothing. An … Read more
DVDO Introduces iSCAN Micro Cost-Effective 4K Ultra HD Video Enhancement System
DVDO®, Inc., an award-winning provider of high-quality, high-definition (HD) video processing, switching and connectivity solutions, today announced the iScan® Micro, a compact video enhancement system that automatically improves the picture quality of SD and HD content. The iScan Micro incorporates VRS® ClearView™ technology, which features a studio-grade 4K Ultra HD adaptive scaling engine, as well … Read more
Sony Tells HDR Story
Did you know that Sony has had TVs in the market for a year that can display content with expanded contrast and wider color gamut? Sounds like HDR right, well it is – sort of. The TVs, with two more coming in this year’s lineup, can take standard dynamic range content and expand the contrast … Read more
ZTE Champions STBs
Comments made to us by ZTE echoed those of Kaon Media (TVs Will Not Replace STBs, Says Kaon). Both companies feel that set-top boxes will not be replaced by connected TVs any time soon, for the same reasons (upgradeability and a curated experience). ZTE added that TV vendors are always focused on their current flagship … Read more
