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LGD Opens First Overseas LCD Panel Plant in China

by Super User

LG Display (LGD) held an opening ceremony earlier this week for its first overseas LCD panel fabrication plant in Guangzhou, China, expanding its presence by adding to its existing module assembly plant in the …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| LCD Module Assembly| LG Displays (LGD)| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Intel Enters Octa-Core Market With Enthusiast Chips

by Super User

Intel’s Haswell technology has finally reached the highest-end markets that the company operates in. Three chips, known collectively as the Core i7 Extreme Edition, have been launched for overclockers and other enthusiasts. Intel claims …

Tags:Chips| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Dell Claims ‘First’ for Curved 34″

by Super User

More information has been shared by Dell, about its U3415W LCD monitor (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 48). Last year we heard that the product would be a 34″ model with 3440 x 1440 …

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Dell Widens Gamut and Size

by Super User

A 2015 version of Dell’s Ultrasharp U2414H (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 38) has appeared on the company’s Chinese website. While similar to last year’s product, the display on the U2415H has been changed. …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Innolux Sales 15.5% Higher YoY

by Super User

Innolux reported a 15.5% year on year and 4.8% month on month increase in sales in August at NT$38.2 billion ($1.3 billion), bringing sales in the first eight months of the year to NT275 …

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Tongfang Has High Hopes for Welsh Plant

by Super User

We talked to Simon Lucas and Phil Jones, manufacturing director and managing director of Tongfang’s new TV assembly plant in Wales (Display Monitor Vol 21 Nos 3 & 30). Seiki TVs for the UK …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

CEE Thin-Client Market Outlook Lowered for 2014

by Super User

The EMEA thin-client market posted double-digit growth in Q2 2014 for the second quarter in a row, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker report from IDC. Economic recovery in Western …

Tags:Europe| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Thin Clients| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Lang Dims LED to Raise Contrast

by Super User

Lang AG has improved black levels on its Leyard LED displays. At ISE this year, the company showed the Leyard TV 1.9 LED display; now it has added the Leyard RTV 1.9 to its …

Tags:Lang| Large Display Monitor| Leyard| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Cypress’ Controller Enables Slim Huawei Tablet

by Super User

The Mediapad X1 is Huawei’s 7″ tablet: the world’s thinnest, the company claims, at 7.18mm. USA-based Cypress Semiconductor says that the thin body is partly enabled by its Truetouch Gen5 TMA568 capacitive touchscreen controller. …

Tags:Back Panel| Huawei| Large Display Monitor| tablets| Touch Controllers| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Thoughts after IBC and IFA

by Super User

I’m writing this editorial in the plane on the way back from the Munich Digital Signage conference after spending 14 of the last 15 days at industry events. Add an extra day for travel …

Tags:Dolby Vision| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Munich Digital Signage Conf 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Asda to Scale Back Electricals

by Super User

Asda in the UK says it is to scale back its sales of consumer electronics, blaming fierce price competition on goods such as TVs. Asda’s CEO, Andy Clarke, said that some of its larger …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Retail Data| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Newad to Invest $10 Million in Signage Network

by Super User

Newad, a Canadian network operator, plans to have 2,000 screens installed across the country by the end of the year – and another 2,000 by the end of 2016. The screens, all 22″ portrait-orientation …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| North America| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21