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Ocean Outdoor Acquires Scottish Digital-Out-of-Home Firm

by Andrew Fenn

Ocean Outdoor has acquired Forrest Media, a leading provider of large format outdoor media solutions in Scotland, for £200 million ($267.7 million). The deal expands Ocean’s national footprint and enhances its position as a …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Large Panel Shipments Rise in May

by Yvette Raikes

In May large panel shipments for the “big four” rose 13.2% MoM and 9.1% YoY to 20.928 million. AUO saw monthly revenue of NT$25.744 billion ($862 million), an increase of 5.2% MoM but down …

Tags:AUO| CPT| Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Horowitz: Competition from dMVPDs Puts New Spin on US Pay TV Subs

by Andrew Fenn

76% of TV viewers now subscribe to a traditional pay TV service, down from 86% in 2014, according to Horowitz Research. Just 71% of 18-34 year-olds subscribe to a traditional pay TV service, compared …

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

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

Asus Project Precog is a Dual-Screen Notebook

by Bob Raikes

At the Computex event, Asus has shown Project Precog, a clamshell notebook design base on a dual display concept that runs in stand, book, tent and flat mode and uses one of the displays …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| 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

LDM Product Roundup Vol 25 #22

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display in the US has two new 27″ FullHD Monitors. The MultiSync E271N and EA271F have DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA connectors and features include low blue light and flicker-free dimming. The stands can …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| ViewSonic| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Eizo Updates Business UltraHD Monitor

by Bob Raikes

High end monitor maker, Eizo, has announced the FlexScan EV3285 which is a 31.5″ UltraHD monitor that succeeds the EV3237, reducing the case and stand size. It has a ‘frameless’ design and supports USB …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 22

MSI Introduces New Laptops with Slim Bezel Design

by Milos Pavlovic

MSI has shown new notebooks at Computex. The GF63 notebook has a 15.6″ FullHD display, an 8th Generation Core i7 processor and Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti GPU and is aimed at gamers. Weight is …

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

MSI Pro24X proc

MSI Boosts Gaming Monitor Line and Adds AIO

by Bob Raikes

At Computex, MSI showed new monitors for gamers. The first is the Optix MAG491C, which is a 49″, 32:9 monitor with 144 Hz refresh, FreeSync frame rate control and a claimed response time of …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22