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SmarDTV Global reinforces position in India
MUMBAI: SmarDTV Global, with more than 20 years’ experience and millions of devices successfully deployed across the globe, is a European leading company in designing, developing and delivering secure and reliable devices for the digital pay TV industry. The company has established longstanding partnerships with top key specialists in the overall pay tv ecosystem: system on chip (SoC), security providers, software, hardware, app creation and manufacturing, acquiring a deep understanding and knowledge of complex and constantly evolving ecosystems. Cumulating inhouse expertise in security data communication and access control, hardware design and software engineering in the video industry, SmarDTV Global is able to solve pay TV operators’ problems by overcoming new technology challenges and handling complex integration for them in an end-to-end solution.
The company is focusing on long-term and sustainable relationships with customers to create together durable successes, keeping up innovation, while minimizing investments. Today, SmarDTV Global can help and support them during the ongoing digital pay-tv transition, with a wide range of consumer devices from broadcast to hybrid solutions, on satellite, cable or terrestrial networks including new IP-based services.
With an international presence, the company is close to its customers to deliver tailored solutions and support. SmarDTV Global is innovating by co-defining with customers enriched TV viewing experiences and creative features for the best value to monetise.
The company provides worldwide operators with 100+ products including set-top-boxes and conditional access modules (CAM) for the consumer market and solutions for the professional and hospitality industry. The largest operators have selected its solutions in 100+ countries with a full presence in extended Europe.
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SmarDTV Global, as a key contributor to the worldwide pay tv industry, reinforces its position in Asia and mainly in India with SmarDTV Global Technology, its Bengaluru office focused on R&D development, customer delivery and support and an office in Noida to contribute to develop sales and marketing products, closely working on Indian market expectations and customers’ requests.
“SmarDTV Global can actively contribute in the Indian pay tv business, benefiting from a broad experience and knowhow in delivering accurate and cost-effective devices, supporting operators to cope with new technical, commercial and skills challenges as complexity constantly increases with growing and evolving ecosystems” said SmarDTB Global chief operating officer Hervé Mathieu. “To overcome such exciting challenges, we are extremely pleased to announce that business development veteran Sumeer Raina joins us as sales & marketing director to focus and strengthen SAARC business opportunities."
Sumeer’s responsibility encompasses business expansion plan in the SAARC region, contributing to SmarDTV Global marketing & business Sales strategies thus by acceleratingthe company’s growth and revenue.
Sumeer brings 20 years of rich broadcast & telecom experience in business development leadership. Prior to joining SmarDTV Global, Sumeer gained leadership momentum and expertise working with technology multinational companies like Huawei Technologies, Nagravision SA and STMicroelectronics. He has has worked on different products ranging from digital content security, semiconductors, telecom and pay TV. He has a strong understanding of the whole gamut of the value chain in technology business. He is a graduate of Pune University in electronics engineering and has honed his business management leadership being part of Harvard Business School Alumni.
SmarDTV global sales team is strengthened with Sumeer’s presence in India. He is excited to accelerate business plans in India and extended SAARC region to deliver high quality customized products with local technical and commercial support. The Product offering encompasses the video domain ranging from set top boxes, CAM and with any differentiator break through to come.
Sumeer believes being a global technology leader in CAM technology, SmarDTV Global can be an advisor and offer Indian customers help to migrate CI Plus 2.0 standard (USB CAM) for STB’s and TV in line with recent mandate from TRAI.
Please visit www.smardtv.com for more information.
Contact : Nadine FAVENNEC, nadine.favennec@smardtv.com | +33442838000
SEOUL: In the eternal battle between gamers demanding lightning-fast refresh rates and professionals craving pixel-perfect clarity, LG Display reckons it has found détente. The South Korean display titan is unveiling the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor panel that marries an RGB stripe structure with a blistering 240Hz refresh rate—a combination previously thought incompatible, like oil and water or fashion and function.
The breakthrough lies in how the pixels are arranged. RGB stripe structure lines up red, green and blue subpixels in neat rows, banishing the colour bleeding and fringing that plague lesser screens when you park your nose close to the display. It is the difference between reading crisp text and squinting at a rainbow-tinged mess. OLED panels using this method existed before, but they topped out at a sluggish 60Hz—fine for spreadsheets, useless for fragging opponents in first-person shooters.
LG Display’s engineering wizardry changes the game. By cranking the refresh rate to 240Hz whilst maintaining that pristine RGB stripe layout, the company has produced a panel that works equally well for colour-critical design work and twitchy gaming sessions. Better still, the panel incorporates Dynamic Frequency & Resolution technology, letting users toggle between ultra-high-definition at 240Hz and full-HD at a frankly ludicrous 480Hz. That is fast enough to make your eyeballs sweat.
The specs are suitably impressive: 160 pixels per inch for exceptional detail, optimised performance for Windows and font-rendering engines, and colour accuracy that should please the Photoshop brigade. LG Display achieved this by boosting the aperture ratio—the percentage of each pixel that actually emits light—and applying what it coyly describes as “various new technologies.” Translation: years of R&D and probably some sleepless nights.
Existing high-end gaming OLED monitors have relied on RGWB structures (which add a white subpixel) or triangular RGB arrangements. Both work, but neither delivers the sharpness that professionals demand. LG Display’s new stripe pattern is tailored specifically for monitor use, a recognition that staring at a screen from two feet away demands different engineering than watching telly from across the room.
The company is betting big on this technology, targeting the high-end monitor market where it already commands roughly 30 per cent of global OLED panel production. Among gaming OLED panels in mass production, LG Display claims world-leading specs across refresh rate, response time and resolution—a trifecta that sounds like marketing bluster until you check the numbers.
“Technology is the foundation of leadership in the rapidly growing OLED monitor market,” says LG Display head of the large display business unit Lee Hyun-woo. He promises to keep pushing “differentiated technologies compared to competitors”—corporate-speak for staying ahead of Chinese rivals snapping at LG’s heels.
The new panel will debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where LG Display plans to woo customers and expand its lineup. Initial rollout targets high-end gaming and professional monitors, the sweet spot where people actually pay premiums for superior screens rather than settling for whatever came with their laptop.
Whether this technology reshapes the monitor market or remains a niche luxury depends on two things: pricing and production scale. But for now, LG Display has pulled off something rare—a genuine technical leap that solves a real problem. Gamers get their speed, designers get their clarity, and LG gets bragging rights. In the cutthroat world of display tech, that counts as a win.
