Volume 21 – Page 91 – Display Daily

Freesat Approaches 2 Million Mark

by Super User

The UK’s free satellite TV service, Freesat, was available to 1.9 million households at the end of September. 8,000 new subscribers were added in Q3, and 32,000 in the first 9 months of 2014.

HP Combines Devices in ‘Sprout’

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Sources have told Re/code that HP will show a new computing device on 29th October, which is called Sprout. According to the sources, the Sprout combines a large flatscreen display with a flat, touch-sensitive …

Canatu Discusses CNB Films at Motion Conference

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Canatu’s Bob Senior will discuss the company’s carbon nanobud touch technology at the IHS Touch Gesture Motion Conference. Senior will present his talk on 29th October, during the session ‘Indium Tin Oxide: Is There …

Texas Instruments Result 21/10/2014

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Texas Instruments Incorporated achieved a 31% year on year increase in net profit in Q3 to $826 million from $629 million in Q3 of the previous year, while turnover rose 8% to $3.5 billion …

NTT Plala Provides UltraHD Date

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NTT Plala, the Japanese telco, will begin UltraHD broadcasting on 27th October.

Flextronics Hires New CMO

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Flextronics has appointed Michael Mendenhall to lead the company’s worldwide marketing, branding and communications initiatives. He most recently served as CMO and executive VP for Fusion-io, having previously held the post of senior VP …

Archos Releases Low-cost Gear VR Competitor

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French company Archos is to release a low-cost competitor to Samsung’s Gear VR (and, we guess, Google Cardboard), with the Archos VR Glasses. Like the Samsung and Google offerings, Archos’ ‘headset’ is more like …

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Cineplanet Selects Barco

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Barco has supplied digital cinema projectors to the Cineplanet chain’s 200+ locations across Latin America. Local distributor and integrator Bardan Cinema assisted with the rollout. A variety of projectors were used, from the DP2K-10SX …

Sensor Requirements for Better Pixels

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Klaus Weber, a Camera Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Grass Valley, gave a very nice analysis on various camera architectures and the needs for next generation image capture. His conclusion: CMOS sensors are superior …

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Panel Shipments to Rise in Coming Years

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Reports from Asia, quoting ‘market observers’, claim that TV panel shipments will rise 2.7% YoY this year, to 217 million units, and 3.5% next year. The market will be bolstered by recovering growth in …

Eizo Refreshes FDX Monitors With Extreme Dimming

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The FDX1501-A and FDX1501T-A are updates to Eizo’s Duravision FDX1501 and FDX1501T, released in 2011 (Display Monitor Vol 18 No 21). Compared to the existing models, power consumption has been lowered by more than …

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Japan’s Sharp to get 10 billion yen loan from Sumitomo Mitsui – sources

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Japan Display (JDI) has issued a revised forecast for this year and said it now expects to record a net loss of