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CPT’s Monthly Sales Down 9%

Chunghwa Picture Tubes’ (CPT) sales in November were down 1% sequentially and 9.2% from November 2013 at NT$4.9 billion ($156.8 million), bringing sales so far in 2014 to NT$51.9 billion ($1.6 billion), 3.4% lower year on year. CPT’s November shipments of small and medium panels totalled 41.8 million, down 3.7% month on month and 6.6% … Read more

Death Announced of Crestron Founder

The death has been announced of Crestron’s chairman and founder, George Feldstein, after a year-long battle with brain cancer. In an interview with AV Magazine, Crestron’s vice president, Robin Van Meeuwen, summed up Feldstein in the three words which were most important to him – commitment, humility and respect. A former staff member of Crestron … Read more

Dell Replaces P-Series TN Panels

Dell is iterating on last year’s 28″ UltraHD monitor, the P2815Q (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 47), with two smaller units known as the P2415Q (23.8″) and P2715Q (27″). The P2815Q was targeted at gamers, with a TN panel and 5ms response time. However, it was limited to a 30Hz refresh rate over both DisplayPort … Read more

Dell’s Smart Desk Re-imagines Sprout

Dell’s newest concept is similar – very, very similar – to HP’s newly-launched Sprout PC (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42). Presented at Dell World this month, the ‘smart desk’ combines a vertical LCD monitor and a touch-enabled display embedded in the surface in front of the user (HP’s Sprout uses a projector for this … Read more

DirecTV Firming up Plans for 4K-UHD Service

According to a transcript of the earning call for DirecTV provided by TheStreet, the company will soon begin offering an UltraHD video on demand (VOD) service by the end of the year. In 2015, a new satellite will offer mostly event-based UltraHD content as well. The new UltraHD VOD service will be available to DirecTV … Read more

Dish and CBS Finally Reach an Agreement

As we have reported before, Dish Network and CBS have been in negotiations about a new carriage agreement for quite some time. Now the companies say they have reached an agreement which satisfies both sides’ aims to reach their strategic goals. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ray Hopkins, president, Television Networks Distribution, … Read more

DisplaySearch: Public Display Shipments Will Rebound

After the declines in 2012 and flat growth in 2013, NPD DisplaySearch says that the large-screen public FPD market is rebounding this year. 14% growth is forecast in 2014, followed by 27% in 2015, as global economies slowly recover. Strong LCD display growth will offset the rapid decline of commercial plasma display (PDP) production, said … Read more

DVIGear Extends HDMI to 1.2 Miles

The DVI-7313 and DVI-7314 are single-fibre extenders supporting DCI-4k (30fps) signals, sending them up to 500m (DVI-7313) or 1.2 miles (DVI-7314). Aimed at the pro AV and rental & staging markets, DVIGear’s new products support HDMI and DVI inputs. The DVI-7313 supports multi-mode optical fibre, while the DVI-7314 supports both multi- and single-mode fibre. To … Read more

EC Unhappy About Telefonica’s Canal+ Deal

The European Commission has cast further doubt on Telefonica’s proposed acquisition of Canal+ in Spain, warning that the deal is likely to have a severe impact on competition. Telefonica already owns 22% of Canal+ in Spain and has agreed to acquire a further 22% of Mediaset, as well as being interested in taking the remaining … Read more