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Gartner: PC Prices Rise and Spending to Fall

by Tom Allen

PC prices will have to climb this year, to offset the effects of currency devaluation, says Gartner. In particular end-user prices in the Eurozone and Japan, where local currencies have fallen up to 20%, …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Radiant-Opto, Coretronic See Sales Drop YoY

by Helen Vince

Taiwan’s major backlight unit (BLU) manufacturers reported year on year declines in sales in April, with Radiant falling 9.6% to NT$3.2 billion ($104.3 million) and Coretronic dropping 19.6% to NT$5.5 billion ($179.6 million). For …

HTC CFO: Outsourcing Will Rise

by Tom Allen

HTC’s CFO, Chang Chia-lin, has said that the company is likely to raise its smartphone outsourcing orders to ODM partners this year. The move will be made to cope with emerging market demand.

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Radiant Predicts High Smartphone BLU Shipments

by Tom Allen

Radiant Opto-Electronics expects backlight units (BLUs) for smartphone applications to represent between 20% and 25% of its consolidated revenues in the second half of the year. The company said that it would invest NT$3 …

Cablevision will Offer Hulu Plus to its Customers

by Norbert Hildebrand

Cablevision announced that it will carry Hulu Plus for its Optimum customers. The agreement will be the first resell agreement Hulu is offering to any provider. According to the press release, both sides seem …

LG Releases New G4 Smartphone

by Norbert Hildebrand

LG Electronics has released its new G4 Android smartphone. The latest model of the LG phablet comes with a 5.5″ QHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution resulting in a pixel density of 538ppi. It also …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Samsung Overtakes Apple for Smartphone Crown

by Tom Allen

With a renewed focus on lower-cost models, Samsung regained the top spot in the global smartphone market in Q1’15, said IDC. Shipment volumes were seasonally down QoQ – a difference exacerbated by Q4’14’s record …

ZTE Champions STBs

by Tom Allen

Comments made to us by ZTE echoed those of Kaon Media (TVs Will Not Replace STBs, Says Kaon). Both companies feel that set-top boxes will not be replaced by connected TVs any time soon, …

Thomson Auto-Balances Server Loads

by Tom Allen

Thomson Video Networks is a spin-off from the encoder division of Technicolor. It specialises in video encoding, decoding and compression. The company was promoting its ‘Behind Every Screen’ approach for ‘an all-encompassing video delivery …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Connect 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Abox Follows IPTV Trend

by Tom Allen

Abox42 is a German company that was established six years ago, selling STBs to operators. It began selling directly to consumers two years ago; however, the Abox42 brand is now B2B-only. The company develops …

TVs Will Not Replace STBs, Says Kaon

by Tom Allen

We had an interesting discussion about the future of the TV industry with an employee of Kaon Media. He – and Kaon – realise that UltraHD and HEVC are the major trends in the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| TV Connect 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Samsung Q1 Net Profit Down 39%

by Helen Vince

As expected, Samsung Electronics reported a 38.8% year on year drop in net profit in the first quarter of the year to KRW4.6 trillion ($4.3 billion), from KRW7.6 trillion ($7.1 billion) in Q1 of …

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