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IDC: Smartwatches Continue to Ascend While Wristbands Face Flat Growth

The worldwide wearables market is forecast to ship 124.9 million units by the end of 2018, up 8.2% from the prior year, according to IDC. Although this growth is slightly lower than the 10.3% growth experienced in 2017, the market is expected to return to double-digit growth from 2019 until 2022 as smartwatches and other … Read more

Visionox Shows Outfolding OLEDs

Chinese OLED maker, Visionox, presented one of the keynotes at Display Week (KN01 Press Breakfast and Keynote – check it for more on the displays shown) and had a substantial display in Los Angeles. We started by looking at a ‘concept’ display showing how the firm’s OLED technology could be used in automotive applicatons. We … Read more

Samsung Highlights Flexible OLEDs and Light Fields

Once again, Samsung Display showed a couple of light field displays which we have reported on in a separate article (3D Display Round up). As in recent years, Samsung did not give interviews to the press at the event. One technology on view was a force sensor that can detect forces above 150gmf and the … Read more

Argos Brings Augmented Reality TV Buying Feature to iOS App

Argos, the UK retailer, has introduced a new AR feature into its retail app for iPhone, allowing users to envisage how TVs from brands including LG, Samsung and Sony will look in their homes. The app shows users how TVs will look, both positioned on a piece of furniture or mounted to a wall, and … Read more

Roe Visual Introduces Air Frames at Pinkpop Festival

ROE Visual LED screens are an essential eye-catcher on the two main stages of this oldest running festival in the Netherlands. Using a combination of Carbon CB5 panels and an Air Frame support system, Faber Audiovisuals premiers this product on the European market. Held for the 49th consecutive year, Pinkpop Festival took place this weekend. … Read more

ROE Visual Air Frames and LED Screens Used at Pinkpop Festival 2018

ROE Visual LED screens adorned the two main stages of Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands last week. Faber Audiovisuals was again responsible for the supply of all LED screens, camera work and live streaming from the festival. Faber has created AV solutions for the festival for several years. This image is from 2017. Framing both … Read more

Panasonic’s UK HQ Reception Area Gets a Supreme Makeover

Panasonic UK has created an impactful digital canvas in the reception of its new Berkshire headquarters using a floor-to-ceiling modular system and award-winning video wall mounts from AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV. Situated in a high footfall area of the building, the 3×3 video wall plays visually-appealing welcome messages, promotional videos, case studies and Panasonic branded … Read more

Peerless-AV Chosen for Digital Canvas at Panasonic’s UK Headquarters

Panasonic UK has created a digital canvas in the reception of its new headquarters in Berkshire, United Kingdom, using a floor-to-ceiling modular system and wall mounts from Peerless-AV. The 3 x 3 video wall plays welcome messages, promotional videos, case studies and Panasonic-branded content to visitors and staff. The Floor-to-Ceiling Video Wall Mount System from … Read more

BOE Overloads us with 8K, Flexible OLEDs and MiniLEDs

BOE had too much to report, again! No doubt we missed some points. We found that staff were not able to give much detail beyond what was on the labels of the products, which was a little frustrating, so we have shown some of the huge range of products shown. We started by looking at … Read more

ATSC 3.0 Business Plans Showcase Annual Conference

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) held its 2018 Next-Gen TV Conference last month in Washington, D.C. Speakers at the two-day event reported on its status and provided a forecast on the various business use cases enabled by the new ATSC 3.0 standard. National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Chief Technology Officer Sam Matheny delivered the … Read more

MoviePass Surpasses 3 Million Paying Subscribers

MoviePass, the nation’s premier movie theater subscription service and a majority-owned subsidiary of Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (Nasdaq: HMNY) (“Helios”), announced that it has exceeded 3 million paying subscribers since announcing its low-cost subscription plans in August 2017. MoviePass’ rapid growth is within its projections that estimate the service will exceed 5 million paying … Read more

Helios Announces That MoviePass Has Surpassed 3 Million Subscribers

Movie theatre subscription service MoviePass has exceeded 3 million paying subscribers since launching its movie-a-day subscription plan in August 2017. Projections estimate that the service will exceed 5 million paying subscribers by the end of 2018. (it was only 150,000 in September last year – MoviePass Sees Boom with Price Cut) Parent company Helios says … Read more