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Sky Deutschland to Broadcast a Portion of FIFA World Cup in UHD

by Andrew Fenn

Sky Deutschland could potentially show at least some of this year’s FIFA World Cup in Ultra HD, after a deal was agreed with rights-holders ARD and ZDF (public broadcasters in Germany) to sub-license 25 …

LDM Vol 25 Issue 13 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

LG‘s first 2018 OLED TVs started to appear on Amazon, with the 55″ C8 OLED showing up with pricing of $2,500 (below the LG expected price of $2,999), but had disappeared by the time …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Sony’s Dolby Vision Update Coming to Europe Next Month

by Andrew Fenn

The Dolby Vision firmware update for select Sony Smart TVs is heading to Europe, despite a rocky start with its US roll-out. The update arrived in the US a couple of months ago, but …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| sony| Vol 25 - Issue 13

ShelfX Supports 4 Million Transactions

by Bob Raikes

We don’t often report on fridges, but we noted that ShelfX said that it has processed more than four million transactions in its system which allows customers to open the fridge using a credit …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 25 - Issue 13

BOE Denies LCD Yield Issues

by Bob Raikes

Responding to comments that it might be struggling to get good yields at its G10.5 fab in Hefei and its 8.5G line in Fuzhou, BOE has said that it is running with an overall …

Tags:BOE| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Vol 25 - Issue 13

N-Tech Announces Portable 4K Projector

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Hong Kong-based N-Tech is running an Indiegogo project for its portable 4K consumer projector. As of March 24th, this project had raised $808,246, which represents 3098% of the original funding target of $25,000, which …

US Consumers Deprived of Best Smartphone?

by Bob Raikes

We’ve published a day early this week as we have a public holiday on Friday in most of Europe. This week, there wasn’t one big story that dominated the news. Still, we managed to …

Leyard Has Three Models in Planar VM Video Wall Series

by Bob Raikes

Leyard announced the new VM Series using its Planar brand as a family of narrow bezel FullHD LCD video wall displays with 55″ diagonal and a narrow bezel width of 1.8mm (0.9mm + 0.9mm) …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Leyard| LFD - Large Format Display| Video Walls| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Data Modul Result 30/03/18

by Bob Raikes

Data Modul of Germany put out its annual report and said that it reached €218 million in revenues with net income of €10.623, up from €10.228 on sales of €197.1 million in 2016. The …

IHS: Global Semiconductor Industry Topped $429 Billion in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

The semiconductor industry closed out 2017 in blockbuster fashion, posting its highest year-on-year growth in 14 years. Global semiconductor revenue grew 21.7%, reaching $429.1 billion in 2017, according to IHS Markit. Recording year-on-year growth …

21% of US Pay TV Households Buy SVOD Through Their Provider

by Andrew Fenn

New research from Parks Associates shows that 21% of US pay TV subscribers say they subscribe to an online video service through their pay TV provider, up from 10% a year ago. The research …

Alliance for Open Media Releases AV1 specification

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the expected arrival of the new AV1 codec a couple of weeks ago (Get Ready for a New Codec) and now the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) officially released the AV1 …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 12