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Orange has added 600,000 new TV subscribers over the last 12 months. Almost 7 million of the company’s 15.8 million broadband customers are taking a TV service. 5.9 million of these are in France; 735,000 in Poland; and 89,000 in Spain.
ABI Research says that the worldwide market for pay-TV will pass 920 million subscribers by the end of the year. Average ARPU is expected to fall slightly on increased competition (especially from IPTV, which increased one percentage point over Q2’13 in Q2’14), but at a lower rate compared to the 2013 drop; this is due … Read more
Wuaki.tv, the VoD provider, will launch its services in Germany on 25th November. A beta test began last month; German internet users can register for the test at www.wuaki.tv.
Comcast lost 81,000 video customers QoQ in Q3’14. The company ended the quarter with 22.3 million video customers, which represented a fall of 155,000 YoY – although this was a 36% improvement on losses in Q3’13.
The UK’s Digital Television Group has held an UltraHD HDMI interoperability plugfest, referred to as ‘the world
ADB has signed an agreement with iQor, where iQor will provide after-sales service of all ADB-provided equipment. The deal covers all areas related to repair, refurbishment, testing and spare part fulfillment. The work will continue to be carried out in Poland, as it is under ADB.
China celebrates its National Day holiday at the start of October, which marks the beginning of a longer holiday known as Golden Week. As we noted last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41), the end of energy-saving subsidies helped to keep TV sales during the period lower than the 2013 holiday. NPD DisplaySearch has … Read more
Information on Energy Star’s website indicates that Dell is developing a 25″ monitor with 2560 x 1440 resolution. The U2515H appeared in a filing on the website and apparently uses a TN panel. However, TFT Central claims that the monitor is based on an IPS panel from LG Display called the LM250WQ, which entered mass-production … Read more
Innolux president JC Wang has told Asian media that UltraHD TV shipments will reach 30 million this year. Panel pricing has fallen to between 10% and 20% higher than TVs with 1920 x 1080, helping to drive sales. UltraHD TV shipments passed 2.3 million in September, Wang said. Innolux reached almost 30% penetration in the … Read more
LCD TV sales are expected to reach around 5 million in the USA during Q4’14, representing 6% QoQ growth. Sources at AUO noted that the US TV market grew 5% QoQ in Q3, with area shipments rising 14% and average TV size climbing to 41.4″. In Q4, demand for 40″ – 65″ and UltraHD TVs … Read more
Speaking to analysts after the announcement of its third quarter results (see Finance Results in this issue), LG Electronics said that it planned to implement a dual-track TV strategy, supplementing its line-up of next generation OLED TVs with less expensive sets using quantum dot technology. The Korea Times reported last week that both LG and … Read more
We heard earlier this year that LG Electronics was committed to ending plasma TV production this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 Nos 35 & 39). Now, the company has provided a time-frame. In a regulatory filing, the company has given the end of November as the shut-off date, as it instead focuses on LCD and … Read more
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