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AR/VR Headset Market to Reach 81.2 Million Units by 2021

by Alan Spencer

IDC is forecasting that the combined AR and VR headset market to reach 13.7 million units this year, growing to 81.2 million units by 2021 with a compound annual growth rate of 56.1%. According …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 36

PMA Shows Top-Selling Projectors for August in US

by Alan Spencer

PMA Research has published its latest Projector Tracking Service results from the monthly sell-through data from US projector dealers, retailers, web resellers and distributors. For the Home Entertainment Projectors group, the top 5 list …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Samsung and SK Telecom Successfully Trial 4G and 5G Interworking

by Alan Spencer

Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom have successfully completed what is claimed to be the world’s first 4G LTE and 5G end-to-end network interworking trial in a real outdoor environment in Seoul. To enable interworking …

Tags:Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Ivory Coast Uses Norigin Hybrid Apps for Streaming Service

by Alan Spencer

Orange TV in the Ivory Coast (Côte D’Ivoire) has licensed Norigin’s Hybrid Apps to deploy a streaming service, which is believed to be unique to the West African region. The streaming service was initially …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Streaming Dongles| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Nos Deploys Metrological Platform to Deliver Integrated OTT Experience

by Alan Spencer

The Portuguese cable operator, Nos, which serves more than 1.6 million video households, is advancing its UMA personalized television experience to the next level with the deployment of Metrological’s application platform, WPE (Web Platform …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Portugal| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Global Pay-TV Subscribers Reached 1.05 Billion in Q2 2017

by Alan Spencer

According to Dataxis, the number of global pay-TV subscribers reached 1.05 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2017. Also, 60 million pay-TV subscribers were added for the second quarter of 2017 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 36

STB Outlook Stable and Media Streamer Demand Continues to Grow

by Alan Spencer

According to Futuresource Consulting the traditional pay-TV STB will remain a fixture in homes worldwide, as operators counter the threat posed by media streamers by adding features such as SVoD and 4k UHD services, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Teardown Reveals That iPhone 8 Plus Costs $295.44 to Make

by Alan Spencer

According to preliminary estimates from IHS Markit, the new Apple iPhone 8 Plus has a bill of materials cost of $288.08, for the version that has 64 GBytes of NAND flash memory. When the …

Tags:Apple| IHS Markit| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Teardowns| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Business Smartphones and Tablets Show Recovery

by Alan Spencer

For business smartphones and tablets, the second quarter of 2017 was a buoyant quarter, as the market showed signs of a rebound according to Strategy Analytics. Business smartphone shipments grew 14.8% compared to the …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Western European SVoD Revenues to Increase to $6.5 billion by 2022

by Alan Spencer

According to Digital TV Research, Western European SVoD (subscription Video on Demand) revenues will increase to $6.5 billion by 2022, up from $2.8 billion in 2016. SVoD has become the region’s largest OTT revenue …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| SVOD| Vol 24 - Issue 35

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E Ink and Plastic Logic Boost ePaper Partnership

by Alan Spencer

E Ink has announced it is renewing its master supply agreement with Plastic Logic. The agreement centres around flexible EPD production and with this partnership, the continued strength of the companies’ relationship to collaborate …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Plastic Logic| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Worldwide PC Monitor Shipments 28.5 Million Units in 2Q17

by Alan Spencer

The IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker shows worldwide PC monitor shipments totalling 28.5 million units in the second quarter of this year. While the shipment total represented a decline of 6.4% over 2016, …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 24 - Issue 35