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Teleste Aiming at Public Transport

by Bob Raikes

Teleste of Finland will show a new range of stretched displays at the Innotrans 2018 event which will take place in Berlin from 18th to 21st of September. The displays are designed for public …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Stretched Displays| Transport| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Samsung Debuts First Onyx Multiplex Theatre in Shanghai

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung Electronics has opened its first Onyx multiplex theatre at Shanghai Arch Wanda Cinema in Shanghai, China. The theatre, which opened on September 7th, features six Samsung Onyx screens. The company says that Onyx …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| LED Cinema| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 35

IHS: Tight Supplies Impede LCD Panel Cost Reduction in 2018 Q3

by Andrew Fenn

Tight supplies of display panel materials and components, such as driver integrated circuits (ICs), glass substrates and polarisers, are expected to slow the decline rate of LCD panel costs, according to IHS Markit. Supplies …

IDC: Shipments of Digital Media Adapters Quietly Grew in 2018 Q2

by Andrew Fenn

The worldwide market for smart home devices, inclusive of connected lights, smart speakers, connected thermostats, smart TVs, home monitoring/security products, digital media adapters and more, grew 38.5% to 130.1 million shipments in the second …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Samsung 75″ microLED TV based on PlayNitride LEDs

by Andrew Fenn

Industry sources in Taiwan have reported that Samsung will produce a 75″ microLED TV with a panel constructed using 30 × 50-micron microLED chips from PlayNitride. The TV is scheduled for release in 2019, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 35

CI Plus Launches New ECP Security Level

by Andrew Fenn

Common Interface (CI) Plus has launched a new enhanced content protection (ECP) security level designed to protect the next generation of premium content and Ultra HD TV. The new security level is based upon …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Security| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Access and Foxxum Announce Collaboration on Smart TV UIs

by Andrew Fenn

Access and Foxxum are collaborating on the development of user interfaces for multi-platform services based on Linux for the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The joint solution will enable operators in emerging markets to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Operating Systems| Smart TV| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Microsoft Expects Many Computing Devices

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft gave the second keynote of IFA and was represented by Nick Parker who is the VP responsible for consumer client devices at the firm. His talk started with the introduction video from IFA …

BDA Not Looking at 8K

by Bob Raikes

We met with Victor Matsuda (Sony) and Marty Gordon (Philips, Hollywood) from the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) on the Philips booth where they started by acknowledging that the position for Blu-ray is now effectively …

Tags:Blu-ray| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 34

Panasonic Doesn’t Have Much to Say on TV

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic had its usual press event on its booth and Laurent Abadie, who seems to love the ‘show business’ aspects of his Panasonic Europe CEO position. Abadie started by saying that Panasonic is involved …

TCL Aims to Go Past LGE

by Bob Raikes

TCL had a significant presence at IFA this year. It kicked off its presence with a ‘global’ press event that started with the inevitable noisy corporate video. TCL claims to be the #3 TV …

Lenovo Continues to Innovate

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo was showing its own brand, Medion and Motorola products on its booth. It has also started to develop smart home products. We started by looking at the X1 Extreme which is a 15.6″ …