Spire and Asus Extend Partnership
Spire’s partnership with Asus has expanded to include the company’s gaming and networking products, in the UK.
ARM’s Mali Media IP Brings Single-Core HEVC Support
ARM has announced a suite of new media IP, which can be used to develop media SoCs for smartphone and tablet products. The suite is comprised of the Mali-V550 video accelerator (supporting HEVC), the Mali-DP550 display processor and the Mali-T800 GPU family (including the Mali-T820, Mali-T830 and Mali-T860 GPUs). Power savings across the line are … Read more
Cologne/Bonn Refreshes With Retro Content, New Screens
Two new 65″ flight-information displays have been installed in Cologne/Bonn airport. Invidis Consulting expects as many as 10 displays to be installed around the airport as part of the work, some of which may be 75″ units. They are NEC screens with 1920 x 1080 resolution and use a retro black-and-white appearance designed by the … Read more
LG UltraHD Rises in September While Innolux Falls
674,000 UltraHD TV panels were shipped by LG Display in September, says the Yonhap News Agency. The figure is a 24.8% MoM increase, as LG aims to raise its presence in the UltraHD panel market through low-cost solutions. Innolux, meanwhile, experienced a 10% fall in its UltraHD panel shipments, to 785,000.
Panel Shipments to Rise in Coming Years
Reports from Asia, quoting ‘market observers’, claim that TV panel shipments will rise 2.7% YoY this year, to 217 million units, and 3.5% next year. The market will be bolstered by recovering growth in North America and Europe and rising demand in emerging economies. As well as improving economic conditions worldwide, new features such as … Read more
Orange Posts TV Subscriber Increase
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.
Pay-TV Approaches 1 Billion Subscribers
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 Expands to Germany
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 Video Losses Slow
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.
DTG Tests Interoperability at UltraHD Testing Zoo
The UK’s Digital Television Group has held an UltraHD HDMI interoperability plugfest, referred to as ‘the world
ADB Takes on iQor for After-Sales Service
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’s Golden Week Sales Fall 5%
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
