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Royole Gets Gold Award for its Moon 3D Virtual Mobile Theatre

by Alan Spencer

Royole Corporation has won a gold award in the European product design award competition for its Moon 3D Virtual Mobile Theatre. The award was in the Media and Home Electronics – Consumer Electronics and …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Samsung to Adopt OLEDs for all Mobile Devices

by Alan Spencer

According to a report in Korea, Samsung has made the decision to adopt OLED displays for all of its tablet devices, as well as increasing the use of OLEDs in its laptops. Currently, Samsung …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Samsung| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Global LCD TV Panel Shipments in February Suffer a Fall

by Alan Spencer

Research by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, has shown that a total of 18.71 million units of large-sized LCD panels were shipped worldwide last month. This represents a fall of 5.8% when compared to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| TV Set Market| Vol 24 - Issue 12

IHSMarkit

iPhone 6 Tops Shipments in 2016

by Alan Spencer

According to IHS Markit, sales of Apple iPhone 6s beat all competitors in 2016. In the last quarter of 2016, the latest iPhone 7 was the best-seller, followed by the iPhone 7 Plus. This …

Tags:Apple| IHS Markit| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Virgin Media Offers Ultrafast Broadband

by Alan Spencer

The cable operator, Virgin Media in the UK which is owned by Liberty Global, is now offering broadband speeds of 100 Mbit/s and above as a standard over fibre. The company has become the …

Tags:broadband| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Virgin Media| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Netflix Launches HTML5 on Linux

by Alan Spencer

Netflix has announced that users of Firefox can now also get Netflix on Linux. The move is part of plans announced some four years ago to play all videos in HTML5. Netflix has already …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 12

LG Unveils Wallpaper TV Pricing

by Alan Spencer

LG is releasing its wallpaper TVs to international markets. The OLED TVs are very thin and the 65″ W7 model can be put on the wall, being only 2.75mm thick. When placed in a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 24 - Issue 12

China Network Systems Selects Arris STBs

by Alan Spencer

Arris in the US, has announced that China Network Systems of Taiwan, has chosen Arris HMC4100 set-top boxes for its digital TV video services with the KreaTV application platform. Under Taiwanese government regulations, all …

Tags:Cable| DVB-C & C2| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Taiwan| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Research Concludes That VR Lacks Real Engagement

by Alan Spencer

A recent study from the User Experience Strategies service at Strategy Analytics into VR, concludes that, whilst the VR market is poised for tremendous growth over the next few years, current VR experiences lack …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Polish Video Users Prefer YouTube

by Alan Spencer

According to a study by PwC, published by Wirtualne Media, people in Poland watch an average of four hours of video content every day, and 62% do so on a mobile device. By far …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Poland| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 11

NextGen TV Hub to Showcase ATSC 3.0

by Alan Spencer

The next-generation broadcast TV standard, ATSC 3.0, is now nearing completion and broadcasters and equipment suppliers will be showing their capabilities of the standard in the NextGen TV Hub at the 2017 NAB Show …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Pegatron Lands Control Computer Orders for Tesla Model 3

by Alan Spencer

Digitimes has announced that Tesla is planning to increase production orders for its Model 3, and has given Pegatron Technology orders for control computers, according to sources from the upstream supply chain. US-based Jabil …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11