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Panel Reviews UltraHD Future

by Bob Raikes

The final panel of the day before the social part of the event covered UltraHD. Julien Libouban is from Orange where he works on audiovisual quality, but he was speaking as part of the …

“From Fixed Function to App Platform: What’s next for Connected CE?”

by Bob Raikes

Ian Fogg moderated the next session which had a topic “From Fixed Function to App Platform: What’s next for Connected CE?” The first panel was Jacobo Toll-Messia of Hubii, a news content aggregator; Christopher …

Fogg Clarifies Mobile Mistakes

by Bob Raikes

Ian Fogg is originally from the cable TV business, but now looks at the mobile industry for IHS. He gave a high bandwidth talk that started by looking at the mistakes that had been …

Maverick Takes On Optoma

by Tom Allen

Maverick, part of the Tech Data group, has signed a new partnership with Optoma. Optoma’s entire range of projectors will be made available to Maverick’s education, IT and Pro AV client base.

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The Panel Market is Still Developing says Tamura

by Bob Raikes

Tamura-san is from IHS and looked at the development of the panel industry. China is the biggest market for TVs (23% of global) and phones (33% of global) and that means that success in …

Gray Summarises CE Market Developments

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray of IHS then gave a summary of the market as he sees it. He said that the current situation looks like the “Triumph of the generalist” – the general purpose smartphone is …

China is More than Just a Factory

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray opened the sixth IHS (used to be DisplaySearch) conference and there was a message of support from Dirk Koslowski of IFA. Morrod of IHSThe first keynote was from Tom Morrod whose topic …

Euronics Tries to Keep Smiling!

by Bob Raikes

Euronics held its usual press event at the show and it’s always interesting to hear a retailer’s point of view. John Olsen from the company said it has announcements including a new Gulf partner, …

Innolux’s August Sales Down 27% YoY

by Helen Vince

Innolux reported a 6.2% month on month and 27.2% year on year decrease in sales in August, to NT$27.8 billion ($857.6 million). Sales in the first eight months of the year reached NT$151.2 billion …

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IHS Predicts 50% Market Share for Foldable Displays

by Tom Allen

More than half (51%) of total display shipments will be foldable units in 2020, says IHS. Global shipments of these devices are expected to rise at a 58% CAGR between 2016 and 2020, ending …

Shell Uses Brightsign Across Turkey

by Tom Allen

Brightsign media players are being used to deliver content to 390 screens at Shell garage forecourts throughout Turkey. According to the company, this is the first part of a 1,000-location rollout across the country. …

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Philips TVs Win Design Awards

by Tom Allen

Several of the new Philips TVs unveiled at IFA have already won design awards. The 8600 series took both iF and Red Dot awards, while the curved 8700 TVs were a Red Dot winner. …

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