Vol 21 – Issue 42 – Page 3

HD Continues to Grow in LATAM

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60% of pay-TV subscribers in Latin America will be taking HD services by 2018, according to Dataxis. HD subscribers in the region stood at 13.9 million in Q1’14. Brazil is currently the largest LATAM …

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Canon’s New Flagship Supports Flexible Installation

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Canon’s Realis WUX6000, an LCoS projector, is an installation model with a new image processing engine. The component enables multiple video and computer signals to be displayed with deep blacks and ‘virtually blur-free’ movement, …

Intel Result 15/10/2014

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Intel Corporation’s third quarter turnover improved 8% year on year to $14.6 billion from $13.5 billion a year earlier, as the company reported that it had achieved record quarterly unit shipments of processors for …

Qualcomm Hopes to Grow Content Availability With Dongle

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Qualcomm is developing an HDMI dongle to wirelessly transfer video from a mobile device to a TV. Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, has seen a prototype of the unit. He …

Samsung’s Wireless Tech is WiGig

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Recently (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41), we noted that Samsung’s ‘development’ of a 60GHz wireless technology was surprising, given that the company has been involved with the WiGig standard for several years. Samsung’s …

Lenovo Considers Supply Chain Shift

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Lenovo has begun to place orders for new tablet products with Chinese vendors, including BOE and O-Film, say supply chain sources in Asia. However, the sources also said that Lenovo is considering increasing orders …

E Fun Promises First Sub-$200 Windows Hybrid

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E Fun’s new convertible, the Nextbook 10.1, is said to be the first 10.1″ Windows hybrid device being sold for under $200. The tablet, which features a detachable keyboard, will be available in the …

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AMD Result 21/10/2014

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reported its third quarter results, posting a net profit of $17 million on turnover of $1.43 billion, which compares with a net profit of $48 million on turnover of …

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TV Vendors More Than Double UltraHD Target

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Supply chain sources have said that TV vendors are aiming to ship 34 million UltraHD TVs next year – up 120% from 2014. The largest market will be China (no surprises there – TA) …

Verizon Passes 5.5 Million Video Subs

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114,000 new FiOS video customers joined Verizon in Q3’14, boosting the company’s total video subscribers to 5.5 million: a 7% YoY increase. Penetration was 35.5%, compared to 34.9% last year.

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Infocus Avoids Image Distortion

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Infocus’ new entry-level DLP projectors – the IN118HDA, IN118HDSTA and IN2128HDA – feature the same aspect ratio (16:9) as today’s common consumer displays. The company made this decision to minimise the distortion of projected …

LG Display Result 23/10/2014

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LG Display (LGD) has reported its third quarter results, posting a net profit of KRW354 billion ($334.1 million) on turnover of KRW6.5 trillion ($6.1 billion), which compares with a net profit in Q3 of …