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Touch Panel Makers See Weak Performance in April

by Helen Vince

Taiwan’s three main touch panel manufacturers all performed weakly in April, in the face of growing competition from Chinese producers and reduced pricing. Young Fast Optoelectronics reported sales of NT$243 million ($7.9 million), down …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Market| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Acer’s April Sales Down 36% MoM

by Helen Vince

Acer reported a 36% drop in sales in April from March and a 17.8% fall from April 2014 to NT$15.8 billion ($517.3 million), taking sales so far this year to NT$83.9 billion ($2.7 billion), …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 20

TiVo Looks to Failed Aereo for Inspiration

by Tom Allen

TiVo CEO Tom Rogers has said (at the Internet and TV Expo) that the company is developing an OTA service based on the Aereo (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 16) model – but “done …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Video| Tivo| Vol 22 - Issue 20

France: 700MHz Allocation Will Begin in July

by Tom Allen

French regulator ARCEP has confirmed that the process to allocate licences in the 700MHz band to mobile telcos will begin in July. Legislation has still not been approved to migrate DTT services out of …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Verizon to Acquire AOL

by Helen Vince

Verizon has signed an agreement to acquire AOL in a deal valued at $4.4 billion. According to Verizon, the acquisition further drives its LTE wireless video and OTT strategy, as well as supporting the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Verizon| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Fraunhofer Coatings Enable Full-Laser Backlights

by Tom Allen

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) will show a coating that enables laser backlighting for holographic displays at SID 2015 (stand 222). SeeReal Technologies in Dresden joined Fraunhofer …

Portability is Vivitek Focus

by Tom Allen

Vivitek’s new DLP projectors (DX813 and DX814) are bright, portable models. They weigh just over 3kg and measure 314 x 216 x 126mm, with a top-loading lamp (240W). Both have power-saving options such as …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Vivitek| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Taiwan Panel Makers’ Total Capex to Reach $2.6 Billion

by Helen Vince

Sources in Taiwan have estimated that the four local major panel makers will spend a total of NT$79.5 billion ($2.6 billion) between them this year on capital expenditure. AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux are …

Hon Hai Achieves Record Monthly High

by Helen Vince

Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn Electronics) fared better than many Taiwanese manufacturers in April, reporting a record sales of NT$352.4 billion ($11.5 billion), up 4.2% sequentially and 19.7% higher year on year. For the January …

Tags:Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Mixed Results in April for Taiwan’s Notebook ODMs

by Helen Vince

There were mixed fortunes for Taiwan’s notebook ODM’s last month. Compal Electronics saw sales fall 17.7% month on month to NT$61.6 billion ($2 billion), though this was 7.8% higher year on year and brought …

Top Pay-TV Providers End Subscriber Losses

by Tom Allen

Informitiv’s Multiscreen Index shows that the top 10 pay-TV providers in the USA gained a total of 54,800 digital subscribers in Q1. Six of the services reported a net increase: Verizon (up 90,000); AT&T …

OTT STBs Overtake IPTV – But Not For Long

by Tom Allen

Retail shipments of OTT set-top boxes (STBs) will overtake IPTV STB shipments from pay-TV operators this year, says IHS. 31 million retail OTT units will be shipped in 2015, compared to 30 million IPTV …