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Excess Inventory Acts as a Gale-Force Headwind for Display Industry

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, DSCC published a blog article characterising the inventory issues in the supply chain as acting like a “Gale-Force Headwind for Display Industry” and the Nikkey reinforced this idea …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| Retailers| Supply Chain| USA

Links 15th December 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. We normally put these out on Tuesday and Friday, but we have already built up quite a few, …

Tags:Android| Apple| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Game Playing| iPhone| LG Electronics (LGE)| Remote Controls| Retailers| Smart TV| STBs| Virtual Sets

Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Fry’s Electronics is going out of business, blaming the change in retail habits and the effects of the pandemic. What We Think “How the mighty are fallen”. Back in the ’90s, …

Tags:Reorganisation & Restructuring| Retailers| USA

What Bob Saw on the Net 14/10/2019

by Bob Raikes

Most days, our editor, Bob, spends some time looking around the net for news. Here are some articles and links that he thought worth sharing… (note that registration or subscriptions may be required!) Samsung …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| France| Game Playing| HD+ (Germany)| Retailers| Roku| Samsung| Smartphones| STBs| Teardowns| TV Viewing| Vodafone

What Bob Saw on the Net 23/10/2019

by Bob Raikes

Most days, our editor, Bob, spends some time looking around the net for news. Here are some articles and links that he thought worth sharing… (note that registration or subscriptions may be required!) Sales …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| HFR - High Frame Rate| Huawei| Korea| Retailers| Samsung| Samsung Display| Smartphones| Vizio

What Bob Saw on the Net 08/11/2019

by Bob Raikes

Most days, our editor, Bob, spends some time looking around the net for news. Here are some articles and links that he thought worth sharing… (note that registration or subscriptions may be required!) Fossil’s …

Tags:Display Drivers| E Ink| Hisense| LG Electronics (LGE)| Medical| Patents| Philips| Pricing| Retailers| Smartwatches| TV Production| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Reality

Two Major German Department Store Chains to Merge

by Andrew Fenn

In the face of rising competition from e-commerce, two German department store chains — Kaufhof and Karstadt — will merge in a billion-dollar deal, anonymous sources close to the matter have revealed. Image:Karstadt Karstadt …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Retailers| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Will Turkey Day à la Amazon Trump Retail Sales?

by Steve Sechrist

Technology in the palm of your hand has hit an inflection point in retail with high quality displays, faster processing and wi-fi broadband now good enough to boost Thanksgiving day online shopping into preeminent …

Tags:Amazon| Black Friday| Market Data| Retail Data| Retailers| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 45

Extended Warranties Are a Big Business

by Bob Raikes

Warranty Week has been looking at extended warranties and estimates that the value of extended warranties on appliances, electronics, computers, and mobile phones is around $23 billion in the US. The blog said that …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retailers| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 36| warranty

LG Displays Used in Russian Video Project of the Year

by Alan Spencer

A digital signage project for Ulmart, a Russian online retailer, has won the Project of the Year Award at the Business Video Event 2017, organized by Russian IT magazine, ‘LAN’, in Moscow. Ulmart sells …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Retailers| Russia| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Innoactive’s ‘VR Suitcase’ is for High End VR Demos

by Milos Pavlovic

Innoactive of Germany has developed a mobile system it is calling a “VR Suitcase” for the HTC Vive. The system includes an MSI notebook with an NVidia GTX 1060 GPU that can support the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Retailers| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Dixon Exploits Displays to Sell

by Bob Raikes

Dixons Carphone in the UK has worked with designers Rudi Group and media partners, The Creative Engine, to develop a POS system that uses a 2 x 2 video wall to explain technology to …

Tags:Dixons| Large Display Monitor| Retailers| Vol 23 - Issue 37