Vol 24 – Issue 06 – Page 3

European Public Display Market Moderating

by Bob Raikes

Meko, the publisher of Large Display Monitor, has published its DisplayCast PD data for the Public Display market in Europe for Q4 2016 and found that while the market grew in Q4 2016 by …

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Videowall Cubes at ISE 2017

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Several years ago, LEDs replaced lamps in rear projection videowall cubes, which serves the command and control market. Lamp-based units have not been available and all vendors have offered replacement light engines so system …

ColorSpark and THX Are Highlights from BenQ at ISE

by Matthew Brennesholtz

BenQ was showing several interesting projectors at ISE and perhaps the most interesting was the X12000 projector. This was a single panel DLP UHD (3840 x 2160) pixel-shift projector with 2200 lumens output and …

Cypress Enables HDMI over USB-C

by Bob Raikes

Cypress Semi has claimed that Elka International is shipping the first USB Type-C HDMI Alt mode cable, based on the Cypress EZ-PD CCG3 chip to manage the connection. The chip includes an ARM Cortex-M0 …

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Tivo Result 16/02/17

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

TiVo announced its FY16 Q4 result with consolidated revenue of $253.3 million and net profit of $9.8 million, resulting in a net profit margin of 4%. The revenue was up 69% on yearly basis, …

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AT&T Merger Approved by Time Warner Shareholders

by Bob Raikes

78% of Time Warner shareholders have approved the proposed merger with AT&T, which was 99% of those that cast votes. The companies still expect the deal to be completed by the end of the …

Liberty Global Has Good 2016

by Milos Pavlovic

Liberty Global added 313,000 subscribers across its next generation TV platforms in Q4, bringing the total to 1.2 million over the year. After deconsolidating the Ziggo business in the Netherlands, the company has 6.7 …

LG G6 Adopts 2:1 Aspect Display

by Bob Raikes

LG said that its new G6 smartphone will have a 5.7″ 2880 x 1440 (which it calls QHD+ FullVision) with a 2:1 aspect ratio (described as 18:9) and the display will be driven by …

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Next Apple TV to Support UHD

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg reports that Apple TV will add UltraHD and HDR support to the next version, code named J105. Apple recently recruited Amazon’s Fire TV chief (Apple Hires Amazon’s Former Head of Fire TV). Bloomberg …

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Lenovo Result 17/02/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Lenovo announced its FY17 Q3 result with a consolidated revenue of $12.2 billion and net profit of $98 million, with a net profit margin of 0.01%. The revenue fell by 6% on yearly basis, …

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Projection Screens at ISE

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I visited the Stewart Filmscreen, DNP and Screen Innovations booths at ISE to see what was new in the projection screen business. The answer was, not much this year. Stewart was highlighting its new …

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Projectors, Signage and LinkRay at Panasonic

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I attended the Panasonic Press conference that came right at the start of ISE, hosted by Hartmut Kulessa, Marketing Manager at Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH. Perhaps the most significant newly introduced product was the …