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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
Weak overall demand for LCD TVs led TCL Multimedia Technology to a 24.8% fall in sales volume in November. In the company’s home market of China, sales volume decreased 18.4% year on year to 784,282 sets, though the proportion of smart TV sales increased 12% to 333,385. The volume of smart TVs comprised 42.5% of … Read more
TCO Development has signed an agreement with the Office for Procurement of the German Ministry of the Interior (BeschA), to make TCO Certified part of a new code of conduct for IT manufacturing. The new code of conduct has been agreed by BeschA and trade association Bitkom. The new wording of the BeschA declaration of … Read more
The proposed acquisition by Spain’s Telefonica of pay-TV company Digital+ (known as Canal+ in Spain) is to be investigated by the Spanish competition authority, the CNMC. In a statement, the CNMC was quoted as saying that the deal “could significantly hinder competition in the markets related to pay-TV, audiovisual content and electronic communications services”. In … Read more
Ever since Apple used the marketing moniker, “Retina Display”, the mobile device and display industry has been asking itself: how far will this resolution arms race go? How high do we need to go before we truly can say that the display meets or exceeds the true limits of the Human Vision System? Apple claimed … Read more
The Korean based company Thinkware, better known under its iNavi brand, has released the iNavi X1 navigation display solution that includes a full 3D map enabling an advanced navigation system. The system was shown in Korea and it is unclear if a car maker will use this technology or if it is an after-market solution. … Read more
We recently ‘attended’ a webinar by IDC, covering the company’s prediction for the ‘third platform’. The third platform consists of 21st century technologies such as big data, mobile, the cloud and the internet of things (IoT). These technologies now account for 30% of ICT market spend and almost 100% of growth! Areas to watch include … Read more
One of our lead stories this week is about Black Friday. We first used the phrase “Black Friday” in the newsletter in 1997 in the context of a sales day after Thanksgiving. Interestingly, our very first article said that it was so named because on that day, according to some electrical retailers, sales were very … Read more
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