Tivùsat Passes 2 million Subs
by Bob Raikes
There are now 2.3 million subscribers to Italy’s free satellite platform, Tivusat. 210,000 of these are new customers this year.
Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 21 - Issue 50
Ofcom Measures White Space Interference
by Bob Raikes
Ofcom, in the UK, is testing the possibility of interference to DTT signals when using white space devices. The regulator is trialling a system called dynamic spectrum access; white space devices could use this …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 21 - Issue 50
IPTV Grows in Czech Republic
by Bob Raikes
O2 TV, an IPTV service in the Czech Republic, has announced that it has gained more than 4,000 new subscribers through October and November. 182,000 people are now customers of O2 TV.
Tags:Czech Republic| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 21 - Issue 50
Analogue Remains On In Uganda
by Bob Raikes
Uganda has abandoned its plan to switch off analogue TV services on 31st December. The country is still working towards the June 2015 ASO deadline, but according to local media, this will be difficult …
Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 21 - Issue 50
Wah Hong Looks to Capacity Expansion
by Bob Raikes
Taiwanese optical film maker Wah Hong Industrial is to begin producing films for display sizes up to 90″ next year. The company currently produces films up to 60″ in size. In addition, two more …
Tags:Film materials| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Vol 21 - Issue 50
TV Panel Prices to Fall on Lower Chinese Demand
by Bob Raikes
Falling LCD TV demand from China could lead to excess panel capacity next year, leading to a price fall in the second half of 2015, say industry sources. LCD TV sales in the country …
Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| TV Production| Vol 21 - Issue 50
Shipments Will Fall, Says Inventec
by Bob Raikes
Shipments of laptop PCs from Inventec will fall between November and December, the company has said. Inventec shipped 1.5 million notebooks in October and 1.6 million in November.
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| ODMs & OEMs| Vol 21 - Issue 50
LED-Lit Displays’ Value Falling
by Bob Raikes
LEDinside, a division of Trendforce, has predicted that global production value of LED-backlit tablets and LCD TVs will fall 21.7% and 14.3% YoY, respectively, this year. The products’ production value will be $476 million …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 50
Chinese Vendors Open Bidding Wars
by Bob Raikes
Rather than price negotiations, some Chinese TV vendors have adopted open-bid competition with optical film suppliers, say sources in Asia. The vendors are seeking to lower procurement costs; suppliers from China, Japan, Korea and …
Tags:Film materials| Large Display Monitor| Pricing| Vol 21 - Issue 50
Chinese Polariser Production Delayed by Approvals
by Bob Raikes
Production of polariser’s at Chi Mei Materials’ factory in eastern China may not begin until mid-2016. Production was originally scheduled for Q1’16, but has apparently been delayed by the time taken to obtain government …
Tags:China| Film materials| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Polarisers| Vol 21 - Issue 50
ASE Plant Resumes Operations
by Bob Raikes
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering’s K7 plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has been allowed to resume operations. The plant was closed earlier this year due to major pollution violations, which ASE has endeavoured to fix.
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Industry| Vol 21 - Issue 50
‘Major’ CNT Project Set to Begin in Azerbaijan
by Bob Raikes
A memorandum of understanding has been signed in Azerbaijan, regarding a ‘major’ carbon nanotube (CNT) project. Azerbaijan Investment Company (AIC), Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park and Southwest Nanotechnologies (SWNT) agreed the MOU, which will see …
Tags:CNTs (Carbon Nanotubes)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 50
