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Sources speaking to Mobile Geeks have said that mass production of Sony’s Android TV products (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 29) will begin in January, with release dates beginning in February. As well as Google services, the TVs will apparently provide users with access to Sony’s PS4 Remote Play and Playstation Now (which will be … Read more
Sony has appointed Hiroki Totoki as the new president and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications, replacing Kunimasa Suzuki who has been made executive VP of Sony Entertainment. The announcement came as Sony released its second quarter results and lowered its smartphone outlook for the year (see Finance Results in this issue).
Sony Corporation’s net loss in the second quarter widened to ¥136 billion ($1.2 billion) from ¥19.6 billion ($172.6 million) in Q2 of last year, though turnover increased to ¥1.9 trillion ($16.7 billion) from ¥1.7 trillion ($14.9 billion). The increase in sales was attributed primarily to a significant increase in Sony’s game and network services business, … Read more
Sony will be at ISE 2015 (stand 1.H120), expanding upon its theme of ‘Beyond Definition’. The focus will be on the company’s laser and UltraHD technologies, but other items will be featured. The Vision Presenter solution is a way to send multiple types of content to a screen at once. A new upgrade adds previewing … Read more
Sony plans to cut its TV and smartphone portfolios over the next three years. The move will be made to cut costs, with the company looking to the Playstation and image sensor businesses instead. The goal for both TV and smartphone units is still to turn a profit, even if sales fall by as much … Read more
In an interview with The Nikkei newspaper (http://tinyurl.com/o5vybsm), Sony CFO Kenichiro Yoshida said that the company plans to rethink its smartphone strategy. While the recent finance results (see elsewhere in this issue) showed poor smartphone sales, Yoshida said that it would stick with the business and announce specific reforms in February. Sales this fiscal year … Read more
Spectra7 Microsystems has received a multi-product order for its VR7200 dual screen VR and HT8181 UltraHD display interconnect chips. The order was placed by ‘a leading provider of VR and home theatre products to major OEM brands’. The order is worth about CAD500,000 ($440,000). According to the company, these products will enable the customer to … Read more
The Information Technology Agreement, which defines tariffs on many technology products at 0%, has been threatened by a stand-off between China and South Korea. The ITA has not been updated since 1996, but there were discussions in Geneva about its expansion last year (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 27 – 46). These talks were deadlocked … Read more
According to the latest Consumer Metrix survey from Strategy Analytics the awareness of 4k/UHD technology among US consumers has risen significantly. The US-based market research firm interviewed 2001 US consumers via an online survey in November 2014, asking respondents about their recognition of several terms that are used to describe 4k/UHD TV. The most recognized … Read more
Two bar-type signage displays from BenQ, which were introduced at Infocomm 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 20), are now available in the USA. The BH280 and BH380 are professional displays, with a 50,000-hour lifetime. They can be used in landscape or portrait modes, with solid fixing points attaching the panel to the (metal) chassis … Read more
Most of Taiwan’s major notebook ODMs reported slight month on month declines in sales in October, though all of the companies performed better in October 2014 than they had a year earlier. Only Pegatron achieved a sequential increase in sales. Compal’s sales dropped 4.4% month on month to NT$81.1 billion ($2.6 billion), though this was … Read more
TCL Multimedia saw LCD TV sales rise 10.7% in October from the same period last year. Sales of smart TVs increased 30.2%. In TCL’s home market of China, the company’s sales volume fell 9.8% year on year to 610,875 sets, though sales of smart TVs in China increased 31.5%, accounting for 280,218 sets. In the … Read more
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