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UK VR Industry to Grow at 34% CAGR from 2018 to 2022

by Andrew Fenn

PwC predicts that the Entertainment and Media sector will be worth £76 billion by 2022, up from £68 billion this year, and that the UK’s virtual reality sector will be the fastest growing segment …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 22

40% of US Broadband Households Own a Streaming Media player

by Andrew Fenn

New research from Parks Associates shows that ownership of streaming media players has risen from about 6% of US broadband households in 2010 to almost 40% at the beginning of 2018. The data indicates …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Smart TV| STBs| Streaming Dongles| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Apple Sued for $5 Million Over Broken Apple Watch Screens

by Andrew Fenn

Apple has been served with a $5 million class-action lawsuit in California, which claims that the company has sold millions of smartwatches with defective screens, since its original Apple Watch in 2015, through to …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Asus Wins 17 Awards at Computex 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Asus won a total of 17 awards at this year’s Computex computer show in Taipei, Taiwan — six Best Choice awards and eleven D&I (Design & Intelligence) awards. The company’s 13.3″ ZenBook S notebook …

Tags:Asus| Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Stronger Growth for Worldwide All-In-One PC Shipments in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Digitimes Research predicts that global all-in-one (AIO) PC shipments will see stronger growth in 2018. The ratio of AIO to desktop PC shipments will also continue to increase. The company also estimates that Dell …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Lextar Mini LED Backlighting to Enter Mass Production in 2018 Q3

by Andrew Fenn

Lextar Electronics chairman David Su says the company has commenced trial production of mini LED-based backlighting technology at its facility in Chuzhou, China and will move into mass production in the third quarter of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MiniLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Viaccess-Orca, Wiztivi and EKT Introduce Joint OTT/IPTV Solution

by Andrew Fenn

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection and advanced data solutions; Wiztivi, a creator of multi-screen UIs; and EKT, a specialist in the design and manufacture of STB solutions, have …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| STBs| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Worldwide Pay TV Market to Reach $295 Million Revenue in 2022

by Andrew Fenn

Despite the competition from OTT video services, the worldwide pay TV market has been growing at a steady pace. According to ABI Research, the global pay TV market — including satellite, cable, and IPTV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Xiaomi Mi 8 Sells Out in Under Two Minutes

by Andrew Fenn

Xiaomi’s new flagship smartphone, the Mi 8, went on sale in China yesterday — and sold out in a little over a minute-and-a-half. How many units this equates to is as yet unknown but …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 22| Xiaomi

Canatu Teams Up with Continental on Automotive 3D Touch Technology

by Andrew Fenn

Canatu has announced a collaboration with automotive technology company, Continental. The two firms have been working on a transparent, 3D touch surface for automotive interior displays, using Canatu’s CNB films and sensors. The tech …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Canatu| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Fraunhofer Institute to Debut New Coating Technology Later this Month

by Andrew Fenn

A coating technology for deposition of laterally-graded optical layers on 2D — and in the future, also on 3D — substrates has been developed at Fraunhofer Institute’s Precision Coating business unit in Dresden, Germany. …

Tags:Back Panel| Fraunhofer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vapour Deposition| Vol 25 - Issue 22