IPTV Grows With Deutsche Telekom
65,000 new customers joined Deutsche Telekom’s IPTV platform, Entertain, in Q4 last year. The platform had 2.44 million subscribers at the end of the year.
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
08 LG Display Can Reduce LCD Refresh Without Flicker
Hee Eun Lee is from LG and she spoke about power reduction in mobile display devices by reducing refresh rates For smartphones, hardware is improving, but the power consumption remains an issue. Refreshing the panel takes 40% of the power used by the display system. Simply reducing refresh rates means a potential problem with flicker. … Read more
07 Fraunhofer Working on QD LEDs
Christian Ippen is from the Fraunhofer IAP and he also talked about QDs, which the Fraunhofer is researching. His introduction covered some of the ground that 3M had been over. The Fraunhofer uses an OLED-type structure to directly excite the QDs with electricity, rather than using QDs for colour conversion as 3M is doing. Work … Read more
Displaydata Sells ZBD Germany to Delfi Technologies
Displaydata has sold all of its shares and the majority of all the shares in ZBD Germany to its Nordic partner, Delfi Technologies. Michael Jorgensen, division director at Delfi said that the company was looking forward to expanding its Nordic operations into Germany. “We expect to deliver the same high value, dynamic display solutions from … Read more
06 QDs in Cars Have to be Cadmium Free
The next speaker was Michael Patz from 3M Germany and he talked about quantum dots (QDs). QDs are semiconductors that act as phosphors. The tiny particles, around 3nm, will emit pure green light at 535nm, for example. The light is of a very narrow bandwidth and by changing the chemistry and size, you can change … Read more
05 LEDs Need a Lot of Power and EMF is an Issue
The afternoon session was kicked off by Francis Cagney of ND Satcom, who had looked at the issues of trying to drive a FullHD LED display. He explained how LED walls are made of tiles of individual devices and in FullHD, you need 2 million LEDs (well, arguably, 6 million, but he was talking about … Read more
04 In Cars, Augmented Reality with HUDs is Next Step
The final speaker in the session was Prashanth Halady of Robert Bosch, where he is the Director of the Center of Competence, HMI (Human Machine Interfaces). Bosch’s business covers automation, consumer and automotive products but his topic is the evolution of the automotive cockpit. He started by looking at how the cockpit has evolved and … Read more
03 User Experience is the Key
The third speaker of the morning session was Franz Koller of User Interface Design GmbH (UID), who looks at the “user experience” and who has been working in user testing since he worked on the Xerox Star system – which was the originator of the user interfaces for computers that was used by Apple. His … Read more
