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NEC Result 28/04/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

NEC reported 2016 year end net profit of 26.4 billion yen ($246 million), up 4.4% YoY from 22 billion yen ($206 million). Turnover was 2.8 trillion yen ($26.4 billion), down 3.9% YoY from 2.9 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 23 - Issue 17

JVC Result 28/04/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

JVC Kenwood reported 2016 year end net profit of 3.2 billion yen ($30 million), down 32% YoY from 4.6 billion yen ($43 million). Turnover was 292 billion yen ($2.7 billion), up 2.5% YoY from …

Tags:Financial Data| JVC| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 17

TIPA, the Technical Image Press Association, has chosen BenQ’s SW2700PT display as the 2016 Best Photo Monitor. TIPA represents 30 of the top photography publications, from 15 countries across five continents.

US Pay-TV Shows Small Gains

by Tom Allen

Infomitv‘s Multiscreen Index shows minor subscriber gains for US pay-TV providers in Q1, with an overall net gain of 33,000 customers. The six operators (Comcast, DirecTV, Dish, Time Warner, Verizon Fios and AT&T U-Verse) …

IPTV Rises, Cable Down in Switzerland

by Tom Allen

Switzerland’s national telco, Swisscom, gained 36,000 IPTV customers in Q1’16, for a total of almost 1.4 million. Customers grew by 166,000 in the past 12 months (13.8% YoY). At the same time, Swiss cable …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Switzerland| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Freenet TV Launches Initial T2 Offering

by Tom Allen

Freenet, which took over Germany’s Media Broadcast in March, will launch several channels on the DVB-T2 platform this month. Initially RTL, ProSieben, Sat.1 and VOX will be broadcast as a package (at 1920 x …

Tags:Broadcast| DVB-T & T2| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 17

HP’s Pavilion Learns From Spectre

by Tom Allen

HP has released a slew of new products, slimming its convertible and laptop PCs while also raising battery life. The new Pavilion PC range includes the x360 convertibles and the more conventional Pavilion laptops. …

Hitachi Now in Laser Projection

by Tom Allen

Hitachi’s first entrance into the solid state laser-phosphor market has been unveiled, in the form of the LP-WU9750B DLP projector. It is suitable for extreme use in 24/7 applications, such as digital signage. A …

Tags:Dicom Medical Calibration| Hitachi| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Dell Renames After EMC Acquisition

by Tom Allen

Dell has announced a name change, following its acquisition of EMC (Dell Pays $67 Billion for EMC) last year. The part of the company selling PCs will still be known as Dell, while the …

March Ends Five-Month Chip Fall

by Tom Allen

Semiconductor sales were up very slightly (0.3%) in March, compared to February, at $26.1 billion, says the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). However, sales throughout Q1’16 fell 5.5% QoQ and 5.8% YoY, to $78.3 billion. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 17| Worldwide

AUO Takes on New Staff for Capacity Expansion

by Milos Pavlovic

AUO is to take on 3,000 new employees in Taiwan – 1,000 of them engineers – to operate its new production capacity, say sources in the country. These include a new fab producing 27,000 …

Google Patents Tearable Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to a patent Google received in the US, the firm is envisioning a display that can be physically separated by the user to provide information on the separated display portion. The patent was …