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Acer Appoints New EMEA President

Acer has announced a reorganisation of its executive team, following the resignation of Luca Rossi from his position as president of Acer EMEA, after only six months in the job. Rossi will be replaced by Emmanuel Fromont, who currently serves as corporate VP and president of Acer’s Pan America operations, having previously held numerous management … Read more

Samsung Profit to Fall First Time in 3 Years

Samsung has released its preliminary earnings guidance for the fourth quarter of the year and says it expects to report its first yearly fall in profit for three years.  Operating profit in the final quarter of the year will be approximately KRW5.2 trillion ($4.7 billion), around 37% lower than Q4 a year earlier. Although Samsung’s … Read more

Philips Goes All-Out With Android

Philips UltraHD TV

Philips and US-licensee Funai share space in the Renaissance hotel, next to the Convention Centre. The companies were mostly gathering feedback on their products for the year. A major announcement by TP Vision (the European licensee for Philips), made just before the opening of the show, was that the majority of the company’s TVs will … Read more

ViXS powers first 4K Ultra HD HEVC 10-Bit OTT media player

Vixs was showing different tone mapping strategies for HDR contentViXS has had a good time recently as it has been ahead of most of its competition with UltraHD support in the XCode 6400. The company’s next chip is in FPGA mode at the moment, with a full silicon launch planned for mid-year. It seems that … Read more

Dell Reveals Best Portfolio of Consumer Devices in Company History

Dell announced at CES 2015 an expanded portfolio of award-winning devices featuring premium materials, stylish finishes and the latest technologies from its XPS, Alienware, Venue, Inspiron and displays families. “The new products announced today raise the bar in every category, with style, substance and software solutions customers can only get from Dell,” said Sam Burd, … Read more

CEA Reports Industry Revenues to Reach All-Time High of $223.2 Billion in 2015

Revenues for the consumer electronics (CE) industry are projected to grow three percent in 2015 and to reach an all-time high of $223.2 billion, according to The U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecasts, the semi-annual industry report released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The total revenues forecast was announced by CEA President and … Read more

Will New ESPN Streaming Kill Pay TV? (sort of)

The most notable news to come out of this years Consumer Electronics Show CES (and perhaps in hindsight the past ten years of CES events) was the somewhat muted announcement that ESPN will soon be available to US viewers without a PayTV subscription. To some, including this analyst, it signals the beginning of the end of PayTV … Read more

NEC Offers Large-Format LCD as Projector Replacement

NEC E705 LCD display

Aiming to provide a projector replacement for conference rooms, NEC’s new Multisync E-series LCD display supports multiple different peripherals through its OPS slots. The slot can be used to attach PCs, tuner modules, HDBaseT receivers and more. The new display is available in two sizes: 70″ (E705, 340cd/m² of brightness) and 80″ (E805, 300cd/m² of brightness). A … Read more