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Chinese Vendors Capture 51.4% of Indian Smartphone Market

by Alan Spencer

The latest IDC quarterly mobile phone tracker shows that 27 million smartphones were shipped in India in the first quarter of 2017, representing a 14.8% rise compared to the same period last year. Shipments …

Tags:IDC| India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Videocon d2h and Dish TV Merger Approved

by Alan Spencer

The proposed merger of Videocon d2h and Dish TV India has received approval by the Competition Commission of India. The new entity will be called Dish TV Videocon and the merger will create a …

Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 24 - Issue 19

FutureWorks Goes For Barco 4K Projection

by Alan Spencer

Barco has announced a renewed partnership with FutureWorks Media, one of Asia’s post-production houses. FutureWorks has recently invested in a Barco 4K post production projector at its Mumbai facility and has relied on Barco …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Colour Grading| India| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 16

SAARC Pay-TV Revenues to Double by 2021

by Alan Spencer

Dataxis predicts that the major SAARC countries (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka) plus Myanmar will see their pay TV market doubled by 2021, to reach $16 billion compared to just $8 billion last …

Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Airtel Launches Internet TV

by Alan Spencer

Airtel, the DTH arm of Bharti Airtel, has launched Internet TV, believed to be India’s first hybrid STB, powered by Android TV. The service includes over 500 satellite TV channels as well as online …

Tags:Android| India| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Samsung Galaxy J3 Pro Released in India

by Alan Spencer

Samsung has introduced the J3 Pro smartphone, which is an entry-level device that features a 5″ 720×1280 AMOLED display, a 1.5Ghz quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16Gb of storage and a microSD slot. The …

Tags:India| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Impressive Pay TV Growth Forecast for Asia Pacific

by Milos Pavlovic

China and India together will account for 80% of the region’s 666 million pay TV subscribers by 2022. China will add 40 million subs between 2016 and 2022, with India bringing in an extra …

Tags:China| India| Pay TV

AltBalaji OTT Offers Alternative to Mainstream Indian TV

by Alan Spencer

Balalji Telefilms of India is launching AltBalaji, an OTT entertainment platform that aims to provide 300 hours of original shows in the first year. The commercial launch will be in mid-April 2017. The platform …

Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Videocon Sees Net Subscriber Growth of 250,000

by Alan Spencer

Videocon of India has seen net subscriber growth of 0.25 million in the third quarter of 2016, with this net subscribers totaled 12.77 million at the end of 2016. Churn was 0.87% per month …

Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Chinese Brands Grow Fast in India

by Bob Raikes

According to Counterpoint Research, Chinese brands have substantially increased their share of the mobile phone market in India, reaching 46% in total. Samsung is top brand, but Vivo, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Oppo take the …

Tags:India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 03

CJ 4DPLEX Signs Expansion Deals

by Chris Chinnock

CJ 4DPLEX, an immersive theater technology featuring moving seats and environmental effects, has signed a new partnership with SM Cinema in the Philippines as well as agreeing to roll-out more seats with PVR Ltd …

Tags:CineAsia 2016| Cinema| India| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Indian Cinema Chain Goes 3D

by Yvette Raikes

Indian cinema chain Inox Leisure is adopting French company Volfoni’s SmartCrystal Diamond 3D system for screens across the country. It is the first Indian chain to use this technology. Last month, Volfoni said that …

Tags:3D Cinema| Back Panel| India| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 48