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CPT Narrows Q3 Loss

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a 13.7% increase in revenue in October from the previous month at NT$4.9 billion ($160.2 million), though this was 2.5% down on October 2013. The company’s cumulative sales from January to October reached NT$46.9 billion ($1.5 billion), down 2.8% year on year. CPT’s October shipments of small and medium panels … Read more

CPT Sees Increased Orders from China

According to reports, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) is expected to see increased orders in Q4 and into 2015 from China for screens for 4G phones, tablets and vehicle displays. The company’s small and medium size panel shipments in the third quarter fell 8.3%, with smartphone panels reaching 38.6 million. CPT hopes that an increase in … Read more

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