Vol 23 – Issue 48 – Page 2

AUO Posts November Numbers

by Yvette Raikes

AUO posted November turnover of NTD30.24 billion ($955 million), up 6% YoY, bringing year-to-date revenue to NTD297.93 billion ($9.4 billion), down 11%. The company shipped 9.16 million large panels during November, down 2.6% MoM, …

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Spain’s Pay-TV Market is Booming

by Yvette Raikes

According to the report from CNMC, 671,000 subscribers have been added to Spain’s pay-TV market in the last year. Market leader Telefónica now has 3.71 million clients, having gained 128,00 over the year, while …

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Azerbaijan Gets OTT Streaming

by Yvette Raikes

Working with SotalCloud, ODTV has expanded its current service in Azerbaijan from STBs to smart TVs, tablets and smartphones and launched a multiscreen live and on demand TV service – the first in the …

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Khronos to Standardise VR APIs

by Bob Raikes

The Khronos Group (a not for profit consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon) which has done a lot to standardise APIS in the 3D world, has now introduced an initiative to standardise interfaces for VR. …

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Apple is testing more than 10 versions of the iPhone 8 – and at least one has a CURVED screen

by Bob Raikes

Reports in the WSJ suggest that Apple has been testing more than ten different prototypes for its next smartphone and that at least one of these has a curved OLED, like the Samsung Galaxy …

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Samsung May Try Folding Phones Before Flexible

by Bob Raikes

ETTimes of Korea has reported that Samsung is preparing two different approaches to the development of foldable smartphones, one with dual separate displays and another that uses a single flexible OLED. The separate display …

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BenQ Appoints Sahara as Official Distributors

by Isaac Oburu

BenQ said that Sahara Presentation Systems will be distributing the firm’s interactive flat panels (IFPs) and projectors in the UK.

Philips IPS Monitors Have Presence Sensor

by Bob Raikes

MMD has released two new 24″ Philips monitors that have ambient sensors to reduce power consumption when nobody is near the display. It also has a Low Blue mode, a feature that Philips has …

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Blackberry DTEK60 Ships

by Bob Raikes

Blackberry is now shipping the DTEK60 smartphone, an Android-based device with a 5.5″ OLED display made by TCL. (BlackBerry DTEK60 Launched)

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Google Now Has UltraHD Movies

by Bob Raikes

Google has now added support for UltraHD content to its ‘Google Play Movies & TV’ for customers in the US and Canada at the moment, with other countries to follow shortly. Initially 125 titles …

Samsung Updates For YouTube HDR

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has provided an update for its 2016 SUHD and UHD TVs to support HDR content streamed from YouTube. The update needs support for VP9 Profile 2, and cannot be supported by the hardware …

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Nvidia May Update Shield at CES

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia is rumoured to be planning to show a new version of its Shield game system that substitutes bluetooth for Wi-Fi to communicate between new thinner controllers and the main system unit. The Wi-Fi …

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