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E Ink Holdings Result 01/04/2015

by Helen Vince

E Ink Holdings Inc. posted a net profit of NT$793 million ($25.3 million) in Q4 on turnover of NT$3.7 billion ($118.2 million), which compares with a net profit in the fourth quarter of the …

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CPT Result 01/04/2015

by Helen Vince

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a net loss of NT$3.6 billion ($115.2 million) on turnover of NT$56.4 billion ($1.8 billion) for last year. The company shipped 455 million small and medium sized panels, of …

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Toshiba to Sell Egyptian TV Stake

by Helen Vince

Toshiba is reported to be in talks with Egyptian home electronics company El Araby about selling 40% of its 51% stake in TV manufacturing facilities in Egypt. The two companies set up their joint …

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Quanta Computer Result 01/042015

by Helen Vince

Quanta Computer posted a net profit in the fourth quarter of NT$5.4 billion ($172.6 million) on turnover of NT$251.6 billion ($8 billion), bringing the company’s net profit for the year to NT$18.8 billion ($600.9 …

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Sony Lowers Shipment Target in 2015

by Tom Allen

Sony Mobile plans to ship as many as 38 million smartphones in the 2015 fiscal year (April 2015 – March 2016), according to sources in the handset supply chain. The new figure is slightly …

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Media Broadcast’s -T2 Business Plan is Approved

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Bundeskartellamt, an anti-monopoly regulator, has approved Media Broadcast’s business model for use with its DVB-T2 network. The company will offer pay services from commercial broadcasters in HD.

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Putman: UltraHD Spells End of 1920 x 1080 Sets

by Tom Allen

Pete Putman of HDTV Expert has predicted that the production of ‘ordinary’ (1920 x 1080) TV screens will cease by the end of 2016/2017. Quoted in the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers’ …

Russia Carries Weight in East Europe Pay-TV Market

by Tom Allen

Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will climb 45% from 2010 ($5 million) to 2020 ($7.3 million), according to a forecast by Digital TV Research. However, most of that increase has already taken place and …

YouTube and Facebook Supporting 360-Degree Video

by Chris Chinnock

360-degree videos are becoming more popular as content for virtual reality headsets, but they can also be viewed on a smartphone or tablet. Just swivel your head or mobile device side-to-side or up/down to …

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Is Samsung Looking at a Change in its OLED TV Plans?

by Bob Raikes

This week, we’ve seen rumours from Korea that Samsung may be getting back into the OLED TV business by adopting the “White OLED with colour filter” approach that was developed by Kodak and is …

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Kickstarter Coming for Consumer Holographic Displays

by Tom Allen

A US-based company called Holographic Optical Technologies (HOT) will soon begin a Kickstarter campaign, aiming to bring (static) holographic displays to consumers. HOT’s experience comes from holographic medical displays. It will begin its new …

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CJ Group Debuts Panoramic Cinema in Vegas

by Tom Allen

ScreenX (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 40) was developed by South Korea’s CJ CGV in 2012. It presents cinema-goers with a 270° panoramic view; as well as the front screen, images are projected onto …