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Toshiba Describes 2017 Line

by Chris Chinnock

Toshiba was at IFA to describe its new deal with Vestel (Vestel Wins Toshiba Brand for TV in Europe) and to show off the 2017 TV line, which should be ready by Q2’17. Planned …

Vestel to Mass Produce OLED HDR TVs

by Chris Chinnock

Vestel, the big Turkish TV brand and OEM supplier for Europe, used IFA to unveil plans to offer UltraHD HDR OLED TVs. The first sets at 55” and 65” should be ready for the …

Changhong Launches New HDR TVs

by Chris Chinnock

We stopped by the Changhong at IFA. We saw a lot of TVs, most of which were previously shown at CES 2016. This includes a line of curved OLED 65” HDR TVs that looked …

JVC Reveals Native 4K Projector at IFA

by Chris Chinnock

JVC used IFA to launch its newest home theater projector with a native 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution set of D-ILA imagers. These imagers are new too at only 0.69″ in diagonal – that’s …

HbbTV to Merge with Smart TV Alliance – Mozilla Ends Firefox OS

by Bob Raikes

The HbbTV Association is merging with the Smart TV Alliance so that applications in the future will be able to use a single architecture. The two groups have started technical collaboration and will merge …

Alcatel Has Stand-Alone Headset

by Bob Raikes

Alcatel, now owned by TCL of China, is keen on VR and has multiple solutions. First, the company is supplying a ‘smartphone add-on’ (think Gear VR) headset for free with its Idol 4S phone. …

Chromecast with 4K UHD in October?

by Milos Pavlovic

Rumours from the Android Police website have said that a new UltraHD Chromecast dongle (called Chromecast Plus or Ultra) and a new VR headset will be unveiled by Google on Oct 4th. There will …

IFA Gets Started

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this in my hotel room after the first couple of days of press events leading up to IFA. The show floor opens this morning. There have been quite a few press conferences, …

PC Decline Will Slow says MIC

by Milos Pavlovic

The Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute (MIC) in Taiwan believes that sales of PCs will decline less in 2017, with notebooks forecast to decline by just 1.9% in the year, compared to 8% in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Etron’s USB Type-C Controller Shipments to Increase

by Isaac Oburu

Chinese sources have indicated that shipment for Etron Technology’s USB Type-C controller solutions could have a significant increase in Q2 16 bringing total shipments to about 10 million units ths year, thanks to wide …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Orange Seeks Viaccess-Orca’s Security

by Isaac Oburu

Viaccess-Orca has announced that it will be offering its security services and solutions to Orange, a French telecommunications company. Viaccess-Orca’s system was selected by Orange to secure its Ultra High Definition set-top boxes which …

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Smartphones to Flat Line as Mature Markets Decline

by Bob Raikes

Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to reach 1.46 billion units with a year-over-year growth rate of 1.6% in 2016 according to the latest forecast from IDC‘s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Although growth remains …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 36