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Chinese Product Mix Shifts to High-End

by Super User

TV makers in China will produce a greater number of high-end units in the second half of 2014, as demand grows in the country. Sources in Asia said that 20% or more of TVs …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Haier’s New TV Will be a Doctor on Your Wall

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Haier unveiled a range of new products and – as always – concepts for the future. The company has shown wirelessly-powered and thought-controlled TVs in the past; this year, it demonstrated the U9000 modular …

Tags:Haier| IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

LG Will Leave Plasma in 2014 – But a Market Still Exists

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LG has told Pocket Lint that it will end plasma TV production this year – but still believes that there is a market for the technology. According to Pocket Lint, LG said that the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| PDP| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

DTG Tests D-Book 7 v4

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The UK’s DTG Testing is now trialling the functionality of the D-Book 7 v4. Updates have been released to the organisation’s MHEG test suites, under the ‘beta’ status; this means that test suite licensees …

Tags:DTG| Large Display Monitor| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Medion Impresses With Specs and Price

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Medion is the consumer brand of Lenovo. This year it was showing several notebook/tablet hybrids designed for mobile and extended use, in the Akoya range. However, our eyes were first caught by the larger …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

LG Pushes Curved Displays

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There were two launches of previously-announced products for LG this week. The first is the company’s curved UltraHD OLED TV – the 65″ EC9700 (known as the EC970V in Europe, seen in Display Monitor …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Digital Europe Unveils New UHD Logo

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Digital Europe used IFA 2014 to release a new Ultra HD logo which it says will help consumers differentiate it from the earlier HD standard. In order to use the logo, a device has …

Tags:DigitalEurope| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Sony is Committed to ‘Kando’

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Kaz Hirai, president of Sony, kicked off the Sony press event. After the usual corporate ‘gush’, he talked about the concept of ‘kando’ – or ‘Wow experiences’. Looking back to Hirai’s keynote at CES …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Colour TVs Now 63 Years Old

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The last week of September – the 28th, to be precise – marked the 63rd anniversary of colour TVs arriving in US stores. The first model was the CBS-Columbia – produced partly because the …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

LG Studying When to Withdraw From Plasma

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At a media briefing in Seoul recently, LG has confirmed that it will leave the plasma TV market ‘in the near future’ – following Samsung’s exit earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| PDP| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Vestel Will Feed UltraHD TVs Through Own STB

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IFA, as a consumer electronics show, has always been an odd place for Vestel to exhibit, as the only products on display are OEM items, which may not even come to market. The company …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vestel| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

TCL’s LCD TV Sales Down 10%

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TCL Multimedia said that LCD TV sales volume declined 10.2% year on year in September, to 1,645,485, though the proportion of smart TVs increased by 93.3% YoY. In TCL’s home market of China, sales …

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