Vol 21 – Issue 37 – Display Daily

JCDecaux Follows Through on La Défense

by Raverstead

JCDecaux has unveiled its new street furniture in the La Défense business district of Paris. The company won the contract in November 2012 (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 46). In total 111 static billboards …

TCL’s LCD TV Sales Rose 5.7% YoY

by Raverstead

TCL Multimedia’s LCD TV sales volume increased 5.7% from August 2013 to reach over 1.5 million sets last month, of which the volume of smart TVs increased by 32.8% In TCL’s home market of …

Trumbull’s MAGI Cinema Solution Discussed at TIFF and IBC

by Chris Chinnock Don't Use

Digital Cinema – Back in early May, I wrote an article about the first public debut of Doug Trumbull’s new cinema capture solution call MAGI (First Screening of 4K 3D 120 fps Content Coming …

DivX Certifies MStar

by Super User

MStar’s HEVC TV SoC will be the first digital TV chip to receive DivX’s HEVC Certification. The Certification means that the SoC can playback HEVC UltraHD video using the DivX codec.

Christie Velvet is Smooth

by Super User

Christie had a small booth at IBC, but still had lots to show. The first thing we noted was the Christie Velvet LED system which was on display. The company has 2.5mm to 4mm …

Asustek Signs Bilkom

by Super User

In Turkey, Asustek has appointed Bilkom as distributor for its smartphones and accessories.

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Newad to Invest $10 Million in Signage Network

by Super User

Newad, a Canadian network operator, plans to have 2,000 screens installed across the country by the end of the year – and another 2,000 by the end of 2016. The screens, all 22″ portrait-orientation …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| North America| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Dell Goes OLED on World’s Thinnest Tablet

by Super User

The ‘world’s thinnest tablet’, the Dell Venue 8 7000, has been announced at the Intel Developer Forum- using an OLED display. The 6mm-thick product has an 8.4″ OLED screen, with 2560 x 1600 resolution …

Dutch Digital Market Slowly Creeps Forward

by Super User

The Dutch digital TV market grew just 0.8% QoQ in Q2’14, according to Telecompaper. Subscribers totalled 6.76 million, from 6.72 million in Q1. The total market, including analogue customers, was 7.71 million, 87.7% of …

CEA Supports Definitions With UltraHD Logos

by Super User

The CEA’s UltraHD logos, which we heard it was working on when the organisation updated its characteristics for UltraHD displays earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26), have now been released. Developed …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

UltraHD TV Panels Exceed 470% Growth

by Super User

Worldwide UltraHD panel shipments will exceed 17.2 million units this year – a 473.4% increase on 2013. Data from Taiwan’s MIC shows that these units underwent a 178.8% QoQ increase in Q2, almost reaching …

Slim Bezels and Colour Matching Bring Multi-Monitors to Eizo

by Super User

Eizo’s new Flexscan monitors feature extremely slim (1mm) physical bezels on the sides and top. Both the EV2455 (24.1″) and EV2450 (23.8″) are designed to be used in multi-monitor setups where space is limited; …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21