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Wayne Park is New LG CEO for Germany

by Isaac Oburu

Wayne Park has been appointed as LG CEO for Germany and the European market. Youngwoong Lee, who was managing the German branch, will return to Korea.

Samsung Heads for eBoards

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Electronics in the UK held a pre-ISE press briefing. The meeting was at the top of the “Gherkin”, an unusual, but interesting place for this kind of event. Phil Gaut, Director of Displays …

HBO Now has 800,000 Subscribers

by Isaac Oburu

Richard Plepler, HBO CEO, has said that thee HBO Noww streaming service has 800,000 paying subscribers.

Tags:HBO| Large Display Monitor| TV Reception| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Earthquake Rocks Taiwan Production Base

by Tom Allen

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale hit southern Taiwan around 4am on the 6th of February, affecting the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP). Several chip and panel makers have buildings here, including …

Hannstar Performs Well MoM

by Tom Allen

Hannstar has announced that its unaudited consolidated net sales for January reached NT$1.4 billion ($42.5 million): a 15.7% MoM increase, but 32.5% YoY fall. Small-and-medium panel shipments reached 39.4 million units, up 10.4% MoM. …

Tags:Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 05

NEC Recognised Partner of the Year

by Isaac Oburu

NEC Corporation was recognized during the Juniper Networks IDEAS/Connected 2016 conference as the 2015 Breakthrough Partner of the Year. Juniper Networks’ Partner of the Year awards recognises best-in-class business practices.

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Com Hem Enjoys Growth in Q4 2015

by Isaac Oburu

Swedish cable operator Com Hem AB announced that its digital TV customers grew by 4,000, to 635,000, in 2015. TiVo penetration reached 35%, equivalent to 224,000 subscribers – up from 34% in Q3.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Nordics| TV Viewing| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Russia’s NTV-Plus to Embrace MPEG-4

by Isaac Oburu

Russian satellite TV operator NTV-Plus has announced that it plans to convert all of its remaining MPEG-2 channels to MPEG-4 between the 3rd of March and the 25th of June this year.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MPEG 2| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Russia| Vol 23 - Issue 05

TV Viewing to be Driven by Recommendations

by Milos Pavlovic

According to The Diffusion Group, US multichannel video programming distributors will move to make recommendation-based program guides the centerpiece of their updated TV interfaces. The use of these recommendation-driven guides is expected to flourish, …

Tags:EPGs| Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Sky Q Officially Available

by Milos Pavlovic

Sky Q can be purchased in the UK and Ireland now. The first Sky Q customers will have their STBs installed by the end of the month.

Tags:Ireland| Large Display Monitor| Sky| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 05

AOC Chooses Adaptive Sync

by Tom Allen

AOC’s has continued its trend of merging premium technologies in its newest desktop monitor: a 28″ unit called the U2879VF. The TN panel is a gaming display with UltraHD resolution, a 1ms response time …

Epson is Serious About Colour Light Output

by Tom Allen

To the right of Lang, you can see Epson’s controversial DLP vs LCD demo area. We have a bigger image belowWe stepped on to Epson’s stand in middle of a presentation by Karl Lang, …