Vol 23 – Issue 02 – Page 2

NEC’s Ventura Raised to DSF Vice Chairman

by Tom Allen

Richard Ventura, VP of NEC Display Solutions of America, has been named vice chairman of the Digital Signage Federation’s Executive Committee. Ventura will provide strategic direction for the group, which acts as an independent …

ZTE to Surpass CNY100 Billion

by Tom Allen

ZTE has issued guidance for its full-year 2015 profits. These are expected to climb 43.5% YoY. Net profit attributable to shareholders will be CNY3.78 billion ($574.6 million), compared to CNY2.63 billion ($400 million) in …

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Registration Open for CES Asia 2016

by Tom Allen

Registration is now open for CES Asia, which takes place between the 11th and 13th May in Shanghai. It will be the second edition of the show, which first took place last year. The …

V-Nova Wins First DC Innovator Award

by Tom Allen

V-Nova, creator of the Perseus codec, is to be named the first ‘DC Global Media Innovator’ by the Diplomatic Council – a think tank accredited by the UN. The award recognises a media, technology …

Foxconn Ups Sharp Offer

by Tom Allen

Japanese media sources have said that Foxconn has made an offer of ¥625 billion ($5.3 billion) for Sharp (for previous coverage, see Hon Hai Linked to Sharp Buyout). The Japanese government is concerned about …

NVD Widens Portfolio With Acquisition

by Tom Allen

New Vision Display, in the USA, has acquired OSD Displays: a provider of custom OLED, TFT and STN screens. Going forward, OSD will continue to serve its existing customers as a division of NVD.

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Iiyama Uses IPS for Gaming

by Tom Allen

Iiyama has entered the market of wide-screen gaming monitors, with the snappily-named XUB3490WQSU-B1: a 34″ display with 3440 x 1440 (21:9) resolution. The main selling point of the display is, of course, its size. …

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Grundig Uses UltraHD, HDR and SAT>IP

by Tom Allen

We have heard of a new TV line from Grundig called ‘Immensa’, which will be the company’s premium models for this year. The flagship is the Vision 9, an UltraHD TV with HDR and …

Large-Area Shipments Rising, Says MIC

by Tom Allen

According to Taiwan’s MIC, large-area LCD panel (defined as those used in notebook PCs, monitors and TVs) shipments rose 1.7% QoQ in Q3’15, to 148.4 million units. LCD TV panels had the highest growth …

Netflix Subscribers Reach 75 Million

by Milos Pavlovic

In its recent finance results, Netflix announced that it almost passed 75 million users in 2015. The year ended with 74.76 million customers, representing 17 million net additions. Netflix predicts 6 million new members …

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ARM Supports 4K in Mobile and Optimises with BOE

by Bob Raikes

Arm of Cambridge in the UK, has announced the Mali DP650 display processor which can support multiple composition layers for graphics and video at 1920 x 1080 resolution, while avoiding a big impact on …

HDR and WCG to Become Mainstream

by Chris Chinnock

I spent almost the entire time at CES looking at the High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) ecosystem. One tutorial white paper on these technologies, along with a table of current …

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