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Ahrens is New CEO of Notebooksbilliger

by Andrew Fenn

Notebooksbilliger has named its new CEO, ex-Acer Senior Corporate VP, Oliver Ahrens. Ahrens served with Acer since 2003 (and was involved with monitors long before that! Man. Ed.). He joined the company as General …

Qualcomm Chips in Samsung’s QLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm said that its QCA9379 is being used in Samsung’s QLED TV product line to support dual-stream Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth. Qualcomm said that they are among the first to use the chip. The …

Acer Wins VR Contract

by Yvette Raikes

Acer is supplying its Star VR HMD to a virtual reality theme park in Dubai, UAE. Construction of the park is expected to be finished by the end of this year or in early …

China to Overtake Taiwan With OEM TV Shipments

by Yvette Raikes

Worldwide OEM TV shipments will be over 20 million in Q3, according to Chinese researcher Sigmaintell, thanks to peak-season demand and lower panel prices. The researcher says that 2017 shipments will total 71.7 million, …

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RTL: Linear TV Still Dominates in Germany

by Andrew Fenn

A new study by RTL, the ‘IP Fourscreen Touchpoints’ study, reported in Telecompaper has revealed that linear TV is still the king of content delivery in Germany, with an 80% overall market share. 1,132 …

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Roku Plans To Raise Funds Through IPO

by Yvette Raikes

Streaming company Roku is planning to raise $100 million with an IPO.At the end of June it had 15.1 million active accounts and its users streamed over 6.7 billion hours in the first half …

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Monitoring for Color Accuracy and HDR Imaging

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Sony hosted an event on August 31st in New York titled “Monitoring for Color Accuracy and HDR Imaging” that focused on the use of Sony OLED professional monitors for production, post production and color …

OLED’s Abound but LCD Production Stable

by Steve Sechrist

Recent reports from IFA Berlin this week continue to sing the praises of all things OLED as the super thin emissive display technology looks to be finally coming into its own. And why not? …

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Euronics Now Truly in EMEA

by Bob Raikes

The Euronics press event changes every year and this year there was a ‘theatrical’ presentation in German that was intended to highlight the desire of Euronics to be the leader in the Smart Home …

B&O Uses LG Chassis & OLED

by Bob Raikes

B&O held a press event on its booth and explained that for the company, when designing products, it put ‘people first’. It also tries to take into account ‘domesticity’ – that is to say, …

Sharp To Re-enter Smartphone Business and Push TV

by Bob Raikes

After a day that was almost exclusively devoted to OLED, the last conference on the day before the show opening was held by the Sharp TV business (happily, there was a separate conference for …

Loewe Moves to OLED at 55″ and Above

by Bob Raikes

Mark Hüsges is an executive from Loewe and he started Loewe’s press event by restating Loewe’s commitment to quality. The company recently introduced the Bild 7 and has been very successful with that product, …

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