Vol 21 – Issue 36 – Page 6

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 …

Hannstar’s Sales & Shipments Down In August

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Hannstar Display said that sales and shipments both declined last month, with revenue for the month 1.7% lower than July and 32.8% down year on year at NT$1.8 billion ($60 million). Sales for the …

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Samsung Display Hides Away

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Samsung Display had a private area in Hall 14 and we went around to see the range of products. Showing where the priorities lie for the local sales people in the Display business, we …

JVC’s Cracked Neck Causes Tipping

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About 27,000 JVC 42″ TVs have been affected by a warranty issue in the USA. It has been found that the neck of the stand on the EM42FTR (serial number beginning with ‘T’) can …

Canon Supports ITU-R BT.2020 Colour Gamut

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Display Daily – The ITU-R BT.2020 standard is the next-generation standard for broadcast and distribution. It is the defined format for both 4K (UHD-1) with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 and (in the …

Portrait Displays Pushing Technicolor Certification

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We met with Portrait Displays’ Martin Fishman to catch up on the latest developments in the Technicolor certification programme. Toshiba had highlighted to us that it is now shipping products and the company told …

Innolux Sales 15.5% Higher YoY

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Innolux reported a 15.5% year on year and 4.8% month on month increase in sales in August at NT$38.2 billion ($1.3 billion), bringing sales in the first eight months of the year to NT275 …

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TCL Uses HDR and Wide Gamuts to Support LCD

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TCL might be dabbling with OLED technology, but – following the tenet of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’ – is putting most of its effort into LCD TVs. How, you ask? …