Vol 21 – Issue 36 – Page 5

MEA…As Tablets Shift to Tier 2 Vendors

by Super User

There was a 2% fall in tablet shipments in MEA between Q1’14 and Q2’14, according to IDC. As well as the expected fall due to the traditionally slow summer season and Ramadan, shipments were …

Lenovo Gets Tiny

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Lenovo was a bit frustrated at the show. The company had held a press event on the Thursday, but because of the Intel keynote on Friday, could not announce that new systems used the …

CPT’s August Result Disappoints

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Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a 15.5% drop in sales last month from July, at NT$4.5 billion ($149.8 million), bringing sales from January to August to NT$37.8 billion ($1.2 billion), 1% lower than the …

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Our LCD Will Compete With Plasma, Says Panasonic

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In previous years, we have done some work for Panasonic before IFA, preparing talks and white papers on new features of their TVs. Not this year, however, so we were looking forward to the …

Digital TV Labs’ Test Suite Checks Compliance

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Digital TV Labs is launching products designed to accelerate the development and deployment of UltraHD HEVC services. The organisation’s HEVC for DVB Test Suite enables SoC, STB and TV vendors to check their products’ …

Sharp Chooses Metal Mesh for Large-Format Touch

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Although we missed it at the time, we have heard about several new products demonstrated at Touch Taiwan last month by Sharp. They used metal mesh rather than ITO, a proprietary controller chip and …

LG Moves Past P-OLED Problems

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LG is obviously deeply committed to OLED TVs, but our first stop on the stand was its OLED smartwatch, the G Watch R. Attracting a lot of attention from consumers, the product is the …

Dixons Carphone Claims Solid Start

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In its first trading update since the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 32), the company says that it has made a ‘good start to the year’, with …

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Philips Tempts Then Disappoints

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Despite arriving 10 minutes late to the Philips conference (Samsung overran), we only missed some appliance talk. The conference itself was quite light on display-related discussions, although there were certainly more than we’d seen …

WiGig Enables Dual ‘UltraHD’ Displays

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DisplayLink has demonstrated the use of dual ‘UltraHD’ (DisplayLink says that the resolution was 3098 x 2160) displays being operated over a 60GHz WiGig connection. Taking place at the Intel Developer Forum, the demo …

Sony Joins Allseen

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Sony has joined the Internet of Things standards body, the Allseen Alliance. Current ‘Premier’ members now include Panasonic, Sharp, Haier, Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Microsoft and LG. The Alliance aims to promote interoperability between connected …

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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 …