Sony’s decline over these past few years has been tragic to watch. But the reduction in revenues, profits and returns to shareholders means that Sony will probably be kicked out of Japan’s newly-established JPX-Nikkei-400 market index. A decision will be made in August. Meanwhile, Sony itself is hoping that World Cup mania will help shift […]
British TV manufacturer Titan has launched the world’s largest commercial TV, the ‘Zeus’. The TV comes with a screen size of 370 inches – roughly the size of a football goal – and a hefty price tag of £1 million (€1.24m). The ‘Zeus’ is designed for indoor usage but is also optimised for outdoor watching […]
Worldwide shipments of flat-panel televisions rose convincingly in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, a stronger-than-expected showing that puts the industry on firm footing for the year, according to a new report from IHS Technology. The market for LCD TV was particularly robust, climbing 4 percent from January to […]
Satellite operator MEASAT and satellite communications specialist Newtec are teaming up to deliver 4K Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) content via transmission scheme DVB-S2X to the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center at the forthcoming CommunicAsia 2014 expo. According to the pair, the extensions to the DVB-S2 standard will be instrumental for the satellite […]
BBC Research and Development is to trial Ultra-HD broadcasts during this year’s FIFA World Cup. The closed trials will cover all of the three World Cup matches being produced in Ultra-HD by FIFA TV from the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro – one from the last 16, a quarter-final and the final – marking the […]
LG Electronics has revealed that more than one million units of its webOS-enabled Smart+ TVs have been sold since the launch of the line-up in March. Featuring an intuitive user experience unmatched by any smart TV platform on the market today, LG expects sales to reach 10 million units by the first half of 2015. […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications is ramping up its Ultra-HD activity with the launch of Europe’s first demo channel encoded in HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and broadcasting at 50 frames per second with 10-bit colour depth (one billion colours – HEVC Main 10 profile). According to Eutelsat, these three parameters are key for creating a […]
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic says it is exiting the OLED screen market. Panasonic blames the low yield and thus poor profitability on production of OLEDs. Panasonic says it is working to sell its existing OLED production division to Japan Display Inc, claimed to be the world’s largest producer of liquid crystal displays for smartphones and […]
Sony Corp could take on an equity partner in its TV unit, which has racked up losses every year for a decade, but it is not thinking about selling or exiting the business, its chief executive has said. Sony plans to turn its struggling TV unit into a separate entity – Sony Visual Products Inc […]
Satellite operator SES has launched a new video distribution neighbourhood for Latin America and a new antenna seeding programme for the NSS-806 satellite located at 47.5 degrees West. The new neighbourhood will provide fresh capacity for expansion of video channel delivery to cable head-ends throughout Latin America, as well as much-needed capability to accommodate the […]