Arrow ECS Expands Thin Portfolio
Arrow ECS in the Czech Republic has expanded its range of thin computing products with the addition of Igel devices.
Eptimo Adds Peerless-AV
In Poland, Eptimo has added digital signage-oriented solutions from Peerless-AV.
Asus Claims 10-Day Smartwatch Battery
Asus has shown off a new smartwatch at the Milan Design Week. The Vivowatch puts a greater focus on fitness tracking than Asus’ Zenwatch; the biggest appeal is its battery life, which is said to reach 10 days, and durability (IP67). More information will be shared soon.
Acer’s Q1 Sales Down 21%
Acer reported sales for March of NT$24.7 billion ($793.2 million), representing a 19.8% increase from February but down 19.6% year on year. March’s result brought sales in the first quarter to NT$68.1 billion ($2.2 billion), down 20.7% sequentially and 11.2% YoY. Acer shipped 4.8 million PC products in the first quarter, declining 22.2% month on … Read more
Quanta Rises in March, But Q1 is Down
Quanta shipped 4 million notebooks in March, rising 48.1% MoM and 11.1% YoY. The company says that its Q1 shipments were 9.9 million – down 22.7% QoQ and 5.7% YoY. Shipments in April and May are expected to be flat MoM.
Pegatron Capacity Utilisation Falls
Pegatron says that its notebook shipments were up between 30% and 40% MoM in March, to 650,000 – 700,000. Q1 shipments were not so bright, falling 20% QoQ and 20% – 30% YoY, to 2 million – 2.1 million units. Overall capacity utilisation fell in Q1 from Q4’14, and is expected to drop further in … Read more
BBC Aims at UltraHD in 2016
BBC CTO Matthew Postage has told the Financial Times that the company is likely to start broadcasting UltraHD programmes – and whole channels – in a standardised way next year. The challenge, he said, lies in taking advantage of rapidly-changing technologies and features, such as mobile content viewing, VoD and social media platform access through … Read more
Top TV Providers Add 5.1 Million Subs in Q4
Informitv’s Multiscreen Index, of 100 leading pay-TV providers worldwide, shows that these services grew by more than 5.1 million subscribers in Q4’14 (up 1.42%). The top 10 services added more than 5.3 million throughout the year and had a combined total of almost 130 million customers. Satellite providers grew the most in Q4 (up 2.7 … Read more
GfK Predicts Significant UltraHD Sales Progress
At the recent MIPTV event in France, GfK shared its UltraHD TV sales data. In the 12 months to January 2015, 298,000 sets were sold in the UK; 294,000 in Germany; and 290,000 in France. Sales in each of the three major markets this year are likely to fall between 600,000 and 700,000. GfK also … Read more
V-Nova Expands Partnerships
Encompass Digital Media has entered a partnership with V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). There are three solutions the partnership aims to deliver: 1) contribution quality video via the internet at a lower cost than fibre; 2) high quality-streaming media OTT, using less bandwidth than is required today; and 3) UltraHD and 8k TV … Read more
Screen Technology Gets More Attention
RealD used the Technology Summit on Cinema to provide an update on development of its Ultrascreen technology, which also included the first public demo of its new screen technology showing 4k content from an RGB laser projector. The company was careful to note that this is still an “alpha” product, which means manufacturing methods must … Read more
Rumour: Sharp to Make 5.5″ 4K/UHD Mobile Display Panel in 2016
News of an expected high resolution display from Sharp broke today and was picked up by many techblogs and news outlets. According to the various articles, the new panel is based on IGZO technology and should be mass produced by 2016. The 5.5″ panel has a resolution of 3840 x 2160 and is therefore a … Read more
