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Coretronic Expects Monitor BLU Growth and Tablet Fall

Sources at Coretronic say that the company expects its shipments of backlight units to rise 10% YoY in 2015. Total shipments last year were just under 93 million units: a 20% YoY increase. Q4 shipments were down 11% QoQ, to 23.5 million, of which 6% were TV backlights, 25% were for monitors, 33% for notebooks … Read more

No One Company Rules PMA’s January Projector Data

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in January. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘large venue’. Optoma took the top spot in the large venue category, with the EH501. Epson had the second- and third-best-selling models: the Powerlite 1940W and 1980WU. ASK Proxima’s C520 … Read more

Cambrios and Heraeus Announce New Conductive Material

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Cambrios and Heraeus have announced a new class of flexible, transparent and conductive material. Both companies already produce materials that produce such conductive layers. Heraeus is the supplier for Clevios a PEDOT:PSS organic solution, while Cambrios is the supplier of Clear Ohm silver nanowires. Both materials are already in use by customers and now they … Read more

Monitor Market Finishes 2014 Slightly Up

The European Desktop Monitor market managed to end the year just 1% up on 2013, according to Meko’s DisplayCast service. Although the growth was low, it follows four consecutive years of decline. “There was a huge number of CRT monitors replaced by the first LCD monitors between 2005 and 2009 and those monitors are coming … Read more

Connected Cars to Drive Display Forward

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A new study on connected cars of the future predicts that the growing market for displays/sensors and micro controllers will move the auto industry well beyond a niche market. It tracks a new wave of driving technology that puts these core hardware systems at the center of safety, control and entertainment, in the ultimate mobile … Read more

US Pay-TV Sees Low Growth in 2014

The 10 top US pay-TV operators lost 20,600 subscribers collectively in Q4’14, according to Informitiv’s Multiscreen Index. This compares to a loss of 45,000 in Q3. Despite these results, the companies gained 82,000 subscribers in the year as a whole, taking their combined total to almost 87.7 million. DirecTV gained 99,000 over the year, while … Read more

Pay-DTT Rises, But IPTV Rules Croatia

According to HAKOM, the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, pay-DTT was the fastest-growing segment of the Croatian TV market last year, with subscriptions rising 52.5% YoY to 47,900. However, IPTV had the most subscribers (almost 394,000, up 0.7% YoY), followed by cable (more than 154,000) and satellite (more than 147,000). FTA DTT declined 5% … Read more

Sharp Can Supply Memory LCD

Jeremy Lock is from Sharp’s R&D lab in Oxford and he looks at all sizes of displays, but at the conference he talked about small displays for wearables. There are a lot of questions about wearables. Sharp has analysed some of the applications and has already found a big difference in the display requirements between … Read more

Suffer From Excess Money? Brikk Can Help

Ahead of the official launch of the Apple Watch, US-based Brikk has announced that its ‘Lux Watch’ , which consists of 30 different models of Apple’s wrist-worn device, is now available for pre-order. Available in models including 24ct yellow gold, 18ct rose gold and 950 platinum, the company also offers customers 0.5ct, 2.3ct or over … Read more