Premonvision has for a long time cautioned against the short term and potentially also the long term success of Blu-ray. Before founding Premonvision, the first report I wrote cautioning against a rapid adoption of either Blu-ray or HD DVD was in 2005. After Toshiba decided to throw in the towel and withdrew HD DVD from the market, there have been many positive forecasts provided by vendors and in ...
France Telecom in the UK, under the brand name Orange, is starting the transition of separating consumer services from the access business. Orange UK customers of the “Orange Home & Mobile Broadband” service will, aside from getting dual play services at home, also get a USB dongle for the PC, with a monthly downstream traffic allowance of 3GB per month to ensure Internet access at home and wh ...
Today the consumer electronics giants Samsung and Sony published new financial information. Samsung released its Q3 2008 results, while Sony provided revised consolidated forecasts for its financial year. The markets sent Samsung into a free fall, and ended down 13.8%. Sony fared hardly any better, and was down 12%. Expect similar free falls as other vendors release more financial information and ...
After a week in Japan for the consumer electronics tradeshow CEATEC in Tokyo, my alarm clocks are sounding off. The total amount of visitors was sharply down. There was no clear theme for the show, as it covers component sourcing, manufacturing equipment, semiconductors, and all the way over to consumer end devices. The show therefore sits between the traditional B2B trade show, and on the other h ...
During the IFA Messe Samsung, Panasonic and Philips provided further details on their Internet-connected TV products. Enabling Internet services and developing network awareness is seen as the next big thing for most consumer electronics vendors around the world.
Samsung announced TVs using its Infolive Internet TV service, Panasonic showed Vieracast-enabled TVs, while Philips provided ...