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Pelé Not Happy With Samsung

by Isaac Oburu

Brazilian footballer Pelé is suing Samsung, after claiming the firm improperly used a lookalike in an advertisement for UltraHD TVs, which ran in the New York Times without his permission. Pelé is claiming at …

Warranty Spending Falls – But Why?

by Tom Allen

American manufacturers are spending less on warranties than they used to, says Warranty Week. The site’s 2015 warranty expense data collection is almost complete, and it has examined the data to determine why this …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 12| warranty

Sony Forms BIG to Accelerate Time-to-Market

by Tom Allen

Sony’s Future Lab Program is also part of the BIGSony has formed the ‘Business Incubation Group’ – a division to bring together its new concept design and technology products under a single umbrella in …

Canon Honoured for Environmental Friendliness

by Isaac Oburu

Canon has received the 2016 Energy Star “Partner of the Year – Product Brand Owner Award” from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by manufacturing …

Epson, InFocus and Aaxa Lead in February

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in February. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. The February results showed Epson topping the …

Acer Result 24/03/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Acer reported Q4 net profit of NT$237 million ($7.2 million). Turnover was NT$68.38 billion ($2.07 billion). For the full year 2015, net profit was NT$604 million ($18.3 million) on turnover of NT$263.78 billion ($7.98 …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Beamr Acquires Vanguard

by Tom Allen

Israeli company Beamr, a specialist in video compression whom we have reported on before, has announced that it is acquiring California-based Vanguard Video. Vanguard is a supplier of H.264 and HEVC codec technologies. Beamr’s …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Sony to Launch UHD-HDR Streaming Service

by Isaac Oburu

Following its first announcement at CES 2016, Sony’s new “Ultra” movie streaming service will be launched on the 4th April. The movie service will launch on Sony’s 2015 and 2016 Android TVs in the …

AOC Shows Gaming Prowess at PCR Boot Camp

by Tom Allen

AOC will take part in the annual PCR Boot Camp, which will be held at the Emirates Stadium, London on the 18th May. The firm will show off four of its newest monitors: the …

Skyworth Rolls Out Seraphic

by Tom Allen

Skyworth has deployed the Blink-based Sraf TV Browser, by Seraphic, to its connected TVs in Europe. The browser supports over 1,000 apps and has been ported to a variety of TV SoCs, including those …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Skyworth| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 12

ATSC Tested at Plug Fest

by Tom Allen

ONE Media and Sinclair Broadcast Group hosted an ATSC 3.0 Plug recently, with the purpose of testing interoperability between modulators and demodulators. Attendees focused on functional validation tests, rather than competing equipment.

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| Testing| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Procurement Controversy Swells at SXSWedu

by Len Scrogan

News flash! Scandal! Bombshell drops! Vendor conspiracy revealed! One of the themes emerging from the recent SXSWedu conference—evidenced in two sold out sessions—involved rethinking procurement practices in education. In one particular session entitled “Begging …