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AU Optronics (AUO) reported sales in August of NT$35.5 billion ($1.2 billion), slightly down month on month and 5.5% lower than August 2014. Sales from January to August reached NT$267.1 billion ($8.9 billion), 3.5% lower than the same period of last year. Shipments of large panels reached 9.98 million units, 3.6% higher than July but … Read more
Courts in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia in Canada have secured agreement from five of the major consumer electronics companies involved in the alleged LCD price fixing cartel which took place between 1998 and 2006. While acknowledging that the companies have not admitted taking part, the Canadian authorities said that they have agreed to pay … Read more
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a 15.5% drop in sales last month from July, at NT$4.5 billion ($149.8 million), bringing sales from January to August to NT$37.8 billion ($1.2 billion), 1% lower than the corresponding period of 2013. CPT’s large panel shipments of 131,000 units represented a 13.8% sequential decline and was 26.4% lower than … Read more
In its first trading update since the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 32), the company says that it has made a ‘good start to the year’, with stores performing ahead of plan. Dixons Retail reported a strong performance in the UK and Ireland, with like-for-like sales up 4%, … Read more
Hannstar Display said that sales and shipments both declined last month, with revenue for the month 1.7% lower than July and 32.8% down year on year at NT$1.8 billion ($60 million). Sales for the eight month period since the beginning of the year were 30.6% lower at NT$15.4 billion ($513 million). The company’s small and … Read more
Innolux reported a 15.5% year on year and 4.8% month on month increase in sales in August at NT$38.2 billion ($1.3 billion), bringing sales in the first eight months of the year to NT275 billion ($9.2 billion). During August, Innolux shipped approximately 12.8 million large panels, a sequential increase of 11.8%, while shipments for the … Read more
As expected, Liberty Global has extended the deadline for Ziggo shareholders to accept the company’s offer for the Dutch cable operator, after the European Commission said in August that it needed more time to investigate the deal (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34). The EC set a new date of 3rd November 2014 by which … Read more
This week we are highlighting LCD Public Displays in the 55″ Full HD category covering sizes 53.5″ to 59.49″ with 1920 x 1080 resolution. There are nine brands featured in the advertising. NEC Displays is at the top of the PageShare for the combined three major countries, Samsung is second and LG is third. The … Read more
IFA was, well, IFA. There was not much that was radically new or different this year, apart from the huge new CityCube hall that Samsung occupied. In terms of technology, there was little that was unexpected, but the show was well attended. Highlights or key points from the show were that * OLED is almost … Read more
We knew it was coming. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced at IFA that it was ‘most of the way done’ with defining a specification enabling the format to handle UltraHD imagery. Chairman Victor Matsuda told CNet that the technology will begin to be licensed in spring or summer next year, with players arriving on the … Read more
We met with John LeMoncheck, CEO of Cambrios and, as he was at CES earlier in the year, he was very positive about the developments in the Cambrios ClearOhm silver nanowire developments. The company has opened an office in Korea to complement its offices in Japan and China. Additional investment has come in from Samsung. … Read more
China’s Changhong was among the many companies showing curved and UltraHD sets and was one of the few to be demonstrating a 105″ model. We have it on good authority that the company is using a Samsung Display panel for this TV, which was only a prototype. Another curved set was a 65″ LCD model, … Read more
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