Vol 22 - Issue 31

subscribe

BBC R&D Takes Home IBC Prize for HDR Paper

by Tom Allen

Andrew Cotton and Tim Borer, of BBC R&D, will be presented with the IBC 2015 Conference Prize next month, for their paper, ‘A display-independent high dynamic range television system’. The paper will be given …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| BBC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Eutelsat Result 29/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

Eutelsat reported net profit for the year of €355.2 million ($389.4 million), up 17% from €303.2 million ($332.4 million) a year earlier, on revenue which rose 9.5% to €1.48 billion ($1.6 billion) from €1.35 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Philips Wins “Li-Fi” Project

by Bob Raikes

In its quarterly financials, Philips mentioned a project that it had undertaken in Q2 with Carrefour in Lille, France. Carrefour, a major French supermarket, has installed 2.5 kilometre (800 linear units) of LED light …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Li-Fi| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Sky Result 29/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

Sky described its results for the year as “outstanding”. The company saw profit for the year of £1.95 billion ($3.0 billion), up from £865 million ($1.35 billion) last year, on revenue which rose to …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 22 - Issue 31

7″ Windows Tablet Seen at TENAA

by Tom Allen

China’s certification agency, TENAA, has seen a new Windows tablet called the Ramos Q7. The product has a 7″ display (1280 x 720), a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 31| Windows

Flex Result 30/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

Flex (formerly Flextronics) saw Q1 net profits of $111 million, down from profit in the same period last time of $174 million, on revenue which fell to $5.56 billion from $6.64 billion. The company …

Tags:Financial Data| Flex| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

LG Electronics Result 29/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

LG Electronics recorded Q2 net profits of KRW226.4 billion ($193.1 million), down from profits of KRW411.8 billion ($351.2 million) last time, on turnover which fell to KRW13.9 trillion ($11.9 billion) from KRW15.1 trillion ($12.8 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Nintendo Result 29/7/15

by Yvette Raikes

Nintendo posted Q1 net profits of ¥8.3 billion ($66.4 million), compared with losses in the same period last year of ¥9.9 billion ($79.5 million), on revenue which rose 21% to ¥90.2 billion ($723.2 million) …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nintendo| Vol 22 - Issue 31

UMC Result 29/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

Chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), recorded its highest quarterly net profit for two years of TWD4.6 billion ($145.7 million), up from TWD3.5 billion ($110.3 million) in the same quarter last year, on revenue which …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UMC| Vol 22 - Issue 31

TPK Result 30/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

Touch panel supplier TPK Holding Co. posted Q2 net losses of TWD618 million ($19.6 million), compared with profits of TWD323 million ($10.2 million) in the year-ago period, on revenue which fell 23% to TWD23.74 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TPK| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Corning Result 29/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

Corning recorded Q2 net profits of $496 million, up from $169 million a year ago, on revenue which fell to $2.3 billion from $2.5 billion. For the six months there were profits of $903 …

Tags:Corning| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

MediaTek Result 31/07/15

by Yvette Raikes

Fabless semiconductor company Mediatek Inc. saw Q2 net profits of TWD6.4 billion ($201.8 million), a drop of 49% from TWD12.5 billion ($397.1 million) in the same period last time, on revenue which fell 13% …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 31