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Top 100 Warranty Providers of 2017

by Milos Pavlovic

Warranty Week had its annual look at the top warranty providers in the US and concentrated on those that had changed the most. The blog covers all industries, but we thought we’d pick out …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 13| warranty

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Flex Wins 2018 Manufacturing Leadership Award for Sustainability

by Andrew Fenn

Sketch-to-Scale solution provider Flex has announced that it has been honoured as a 2018 Manufacturing Leadership Awards winner for its achievements in sustainability. The company was recognised for its 2017 Earth Day campaign, which …

Tags:Awards| Environment| Flex| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Socionex Claims World’s Smallest 8K Media Player

by Bob Raikes

Socionext said that it would show a new media player that can support 8K at the forthcoming DSE show. As well as supporting four 4K panels through HDMI 2.0, the company said that it …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Nvidia and Microsoft Team for Real Time Ray Tracing

by Bob Raikes

Ray tracing in real time has long been the ‘holy grail’ of graphics engineers. Up to now, that has not been possible, although as we have reported, companies have worked on ray-tracing just the …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| ray tracing| Vol 25 - Issue 11

IDC: Smartwatches to Have More Than Just Fifteen Minutes of Fame

by Andrew Fenn

Worldwide shipments of wearable devices is on-track to grow 15.1% in 2018, totalling 132.9 million units over the course of the year. The overall market is also expected to deliver a CAGR of 13.4% …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 25 - Issue 11| Wearables

More Than 40 Million Devices Now Running RDK

by Damir Lokas

At the 2018 Connected TV World Summit, RDK Management, LLC provided its annual update about the adoption of the RDK (Reference Design Kit) software used to power customer-premises equipment (CPE) from video and broadband …

Deloitte: 55% of US Households Now Subscribe to SVOD

by Andrew Fenn

American consumers’ appetite for streaming video continues to grow and they have no qualms shelling out cash for original content, according to Deloitte, whose report found that 55% of US households now subscribe to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| SVOD| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 11

America’s Appetite for Streaming Video Continues to Grow

by Damir Lokas

American consumers’ appetite for streaming video continues to grow, and they have no qualms shelling out cash for original content, according to Deloitte’s 12th edition of the “Digital Media Trends Survey” (formerly the “Digital …

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Global Digital Pay TV Subscriptions Pass One Billion in 2017

by Damir Lokas

Digital pay TV subscriptions around the world, including cable, satellite and IPTV, exceeded one billion for the first time in 2017. This global growth comes despite the continued uptake of over-the-top (OTT) subscription video …

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Good Enough!

by Norbert Hildebrand

How often have you heard or said ‘Good Enough’ in your life? To your friends, colleagues, family, etc. ‘good enough’ may mean something completely different than it does for you. Nevertheless, everyone uses this …

Tags:LCD| OLEDs| Smartphones| TV (Television)| Vol 25 - Issue 12

OLED-A Highlights Flex OLED Changes

by Bob Raikes

The OLED Association published its latest forecasts for different OLED fabs now that a number of planned expansions have been revised in the light of the sales of the iPhone X (DSCC Releases Latest …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 11