Sony Issues Another Profit Warning
Sony has issued its third profit warning in six months and the sixth since Kazuo Hirai was appointed CEO in 2012. The company said that it now expects to record a full year net loss of
Toshiba to Restructure PC Unit
Toshiba has announced a restructuring of its PC business which will see around 900 jobs lost, accounting for more than 20% of its global workforce. Although the PC business reported positive operating income in the first quarter, Toshiba said that in light of industry trends and future expectations the company has decided to implement further … Read more
Dynamic Focus on 19″ Wide LCD Monitors
This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 19″ wide category, covering both 16:10 and 16:9 models and sizes from 18″ wide to 19.9″ wide. There are 14 brands featured in the advertising. AOC is at the top of the PageShare for the combined three major countries, Philips is second and Acer is third. … Read more
Thoughts after IBC and IFA
I’m writing this editorial in the plane on the way back from the Munich Digital Signage conference after spending 14 of the last 15 days at industry events. Add an extra day for travel and attending the pre-IBC SES event and it gets to 15 out of 16 days. In that time, I have had … Read more
Christie Velvet is Smooth
Christie had a small booth at IBC, but still had lots to show. The first thing we noted was the Christie Velvet LED system which was on display. The company has 2.5mm to 4mm small pitch LED displays, with 1.9mm to come later, and the one at IBC, which was a 3.2m x 1.8m set … Read more
DVB Updates on UHDTV and DVB-S2X
Over the years, the EBU and DVB have normally held press conferences around the same time, but this year, the EBU didn’t have one, however DVB did. Phil Laven the chairman of DVB started the press conference by saying that DVB is now 21 years old and has about 1.15 billion devices in use with … Read more
Neotion Looks to Headless HDMI
We’ve been reporting on Neotion, the specialist in exploiting the CI slot in Europe’s TVs and STBs, since 2008. At the show this year, it was showing how a CAM can be used to control access to Hbb applications to allow OTT content to be used only when consumers have valid subscriptions. For example, catch … Read more
Rovi Introduces Personalised Discovery Solution in Europe
Before the show, our reporter caught up with Rovi’s Charles Dawes to discuss the company’s presence at the show. We had heard at CES that Rovi was seeking to sell its DivX business, and this has now taken place. The company’s focus this year is on content discovery tools and advanced usability. The problems facing … Read more
SES Sees Video Demand as “Infinite”
Every year, SES holds an event ahead of IBC that draws much of the European press that is interested in the TV landscape in the region. The first speaker was Ferdinand Kayser, chief commercial officer of SES, who said that there seems to be almost infinite demand for video. SES research suggests that there are … Read more
Sky Reports on UltraHD Test with SES
Stephan Heimbacher of Sky Deutschland spoke at a seminar by SES about the live delivery of UltraHD TV tests that were conducted. Sky has been looking at UltraHD for some years and is working towards delivering UltraHD. This started with recording content for testing. However, Sky wanted to understand the issues of live UltraHD and … Read more
Sigma SoC Supports HEVC Main-10 UltraHD
Sigma Designs had a meeting room and welcomed us with news of its SMP8758 SoC which supports UltraHD and HEVC. The chip supports up to the Main-10 profile that forms part of UltraHD Phase 1 and includes HDCP2.2 for copy protection. The chip includes a dual core Arm Cortex A9CPU and quad core GPU. Linux … Read more
LG Lays Down Gauntlet to Samsung Signage
LG actually had new products, which was pleasing to see after mostly being presented with older models and upgrades elsewhere in the hall. The first thing we saw was a demonstration of LG’s WebOS for Signage software, on the 55″ 55LS55A. Like Samsung’s Smart Signage product, WebOS is now being offered pre-built in to displays, … Read more
