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LG G7 ThinQ Releases in South Korea at the End of May

by Andrew Fenn

The rollout of LG’s newest smartphone kicks off this week in its home market of South Korea with key markets in Asia, the Americas, and Europe to follow shortly thereafter. Officially announced two weeks …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Samsung Receives Environmental Leader Award

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung has received an Environmental Leader 2018 Project of the Year Award winner for its Galaxy Upcycling programme. The award honours the programme’s use of a product’s materials throughout its entire lifecycle. The programe …

Tags:Environment| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 21

H & M Tests Voice Interactive Mirror

by Bob Raikes

Hat tip to Invidis for pointing out that Swedish company, Visualart, has developed an interactive mirror display for the H&M fashion brand that uses voice and face recognition for control, eliminating one of the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| Retail| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 19

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Korean LCD Equipment Firms Relying on Chinese Exports in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

In general, Korean LCD equipment makers saw healthy revenues in 2017, according to Digitimes Research, thanks in part to a record level of export shipments to China — over 50% of the country’s total …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Falling LCD Panel Prices Could Lead to Production Cuts

by Andrew Fenn

Industry sources have indicated to Digitimes that falling prices of LCD TV panels could lead to production cuts. They highlighted, for instance, that many companies have cut the price of their 32″ open cell …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Netflix Subscribers to Grow 82% Between 2017 and 2023

by Andrew Fenn

Digital TV Research forecasts that Netflix will have 201 million streaming subscribers by 2023, up by 82% from 111 million at the end of 2017. About 28 million subscribers will be added in 2018, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Amazon Dominates US Direct-to-Consumer TV Network Subscriptions

by Andrew Fenn

New research from The Diffusion Group finds that Amazon Prime Channels accounts for more than half of all direct-to-consumer subscriptions. Its dominance is especially prominent among premium DTC apps including HBO, Showtime and Starz. …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| SVOD| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Macroblock Wins Samsung Business, Optimistic on microLED

by Bob Raikes

Macroblock is reckoned to be the biggest supplier of LED driver chips for video displays (and the second largest maker of all LED drivers) and is based in Taiwan. The LEDInside blog reports that …

Tags:Display Drivers| Large Display Monitor| LED| MicroLED| MiniLED| Vol 25 - Issue 19

TiVo Signs Multi-Year Licensing Deal with Fnac Darty

by Andrew Fenn

TiVo has announced that it has entered into a multi-year license agreement covering the consumer electronics brands of the Fnac Darty Group, a European retailer of entertainment and leisure products, consumer electronics and household …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Rovi| STBs| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Can FMMs be Made by Electroforming?

by Bob Raikes

A group at the New Material Engineering Department of Sunchon University in Korea, led by Professor Park Yong-Bum, has published a paper describing a new method of electroforming invar material (in comparison to rolling …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Vapour Deposition| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Roku Celebrates 10 Years with Free Content and Retail Discounts

by Andrew Fenn

Roku has announced it has unlocked free content for its customers and is offering discounts on select streaming players, just ahead of National Streaming Day on May 20th. This year marks the tenth anniversary …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| Vol 25 - Issue 19

LG Could Build a G10.5 OLED Fab in Paju

by Bob Raikes

An official at LG Display has said that the company is considering building a a G10.5 OLED fab at the firm’s Paju site with a capacity of 45,000 substrates per month. This is instead …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 19