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LG’s OLED TV Sales Up 220% YoY in January 2018

by Andrew Fenn

LG said that its Korean sales of high-end OLED TVs surpassed 14,000 units last month—that’s one sold every three minutes—according to Yonhap. In contrast, the company sold 5,000 OLED TVs in January 2017, which …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLED TVs| Pricing| Vol 25 - Issue 06

ATSC 3.0 Announcements Outnumber Related Product Showings at CES 2018

by Aldo Cugnini

ATSC member companies and partners made several rollout announcements at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month. But despite these developments, new ATSC products were few and far between – perhaps …

Tags:ATSC| Broadcast| CES 2018 TV| Korea| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Apple CEO Receives Criminal Complaint from Consumer Group

by Andrew Fenn

The latest in a long line of complaints and legal filings against Apple regarding the company’s slowing of older iPhone models, Apple CEO Tim Cook has had a criminal complaint filed against him by …

Tags:Apple| Korea| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 03| warranty

Earthquake Causes Little Trouble to Korean Panel Industry

by Yvette Raikes

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hit Korea’s east coast in the early afternoon of November 15th. However, it caused only a couple of hours disruption to the panel industry. Samsung Display’s production lines closed …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Giant LED Towers for Two New South Korea Malls

by Andrew Fenn

South Korean retailer Shinsegae Corporation teamed up with Montreal-based Moment Factory to create visual content to be displayed on a giant LED tower installed in its new shopping complexes in Daegu . Moment Factory …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| LED| Retail| Vol 24 - Issue 40

Korea is Losing to China in Large-Scale LCD Market

by Andrew Fenn

Citing a report from IHS Markit released earlier this week, Business Korea confirmed that China has indeed overtaken South Korea in its large-scale LCD market share. Chinese manufacturer BOE took the number one spot …

Tags:China| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Korea Telecom Now Using Alticast Apex Virtualisation Platform

by Alan Spencer

Alticast has announced that Korea Telecom is using Apex, from Alticast, to deliver a graphics user experience for both linear and on-demand content, completely virtualizing STB functionalities across nearly five million already-deployed IPTV STBs …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Samsung and SK Telecom Successfully Trial 4G and 5G Interworking

by Alan Spencer

Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom have successfully completed what is claimed to be the world’s first 4G LTE and 5G end-to-end network interworking trial in a real outdoor environment in Seoul. To enable interworking …

Tags:Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Means to Quickly Transfer OLED Films May Reduce Manufacturing Time

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Professor Yoon Hong-seok within the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Hanbat National University (Daejeon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea) are developing a new process to simultaneously transfer all …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 27

Samsung Inaugurates LED Cinema Displays

by Milos Pavlovic

Click for high resolutionFollowing the release of the concept at Cinemacon (Samsung Surprises with LED at Cinemacon), Samsung has now said that it has installed the first ever commercial Cinema LED Screen at Lotte …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| LED Cinema| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 26

LG OLEDs Line the Sky Shuttle Lift

by Alan Spencer

The lift, known as the Sky Shuttle, that takes visitors to the Seoul Lotte World Tower observatory level has floor to ceiling, and ceiling LG OLED displays that show scenes of the Korean city …

Tags:DOOH| Korea| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Samsungs Galaxy S8 Family

Galaxy S8 Sells Faster Than S7

by Yvette Raikes

The Galaxy S8 sold 1 million units within 37 days of its launch in South Korea, according to a Samsung official speaking to the Korea Herald. The S6 and S7 took 75 and 74 …

Tags:Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 21