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Smartphones to Ship Under 1.5 Billion Units Worldwide in 2019

Digitimes Research predicts that global smartphone shipments will come in below 1.5 billion units in 2019, with Samsung, Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo remaining the top-six vendors worldwide. The top-four are expected to see shipment volumes of over 100 million units each, while fifth-place Oppo will see its shipments decline to below 90 … Read more

Study Finds 43% of OTT Apps Are Discarded After a Month

New data from mobile marketing and user engagement specialist CleverTap indicates that 43% of all OTT video apps are deleted a month after download. The study found that these apps see a churn rate of 67% during the first two weeks, while only 26% of users use them on at least three occasions within the … Read more

Viaccess-Orca Partners with RedSo for Android OTT STB Apps

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, announced that it has partnered with RedSo, a leading Asian mobile app development company, on an end-to-end OTT solution for pay-TV operators and service providers. Integration between RedSo’s Android-based user interface (UI) and VO’s TV Platform provides operators with … Read more

Viaccess-Orca Partners with RedSo on Android OTT Solution

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection and data solutions, has partnered with RedSo, an Asian mobile app development company, on an end-to-end OTT solution for pay-TV operators and service providers. VO says the integration between its TV platform and RedSo’s Android-based user interface will provide operators with a ready-made … Read more

Could Autonomous Cars be a Generation Away?

Again this week, we have no special reports, but I was at CES Unveiled in Paris yesterday and am at the Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l’Auto) today (the events ran together, which was convenient), although I have been stuck in the press room all day, writing and editing! However, I plan to get on … Read more

FSI Increases OLED Monitor Pricing

As we have reported, Sony has switched developments in its broadcast monitor business to LCD and would like to abandon OLED (although because of customer demand, it is continuing to supply for now), but the company seems to have stopped supplying the one or two customers that bought just the panel from the firm. One … Read more

tvONE CORIOmaster Drives Europe’s Largest Ceiling Mounted LED Screen In Iconic New London Development

tvONE (tvone.com), a leading designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge video and multimedia processing equipment, are proud to announce that a CORIOmaster mini video wall processor is driving a spectacular 180m² LED screen housed in the ceiling of a passageway running through the centre of Fen Court, a new 15-storey office and retail development in the … Read more

tvONE CORIOmaster Drives Ceiling-Mounted LED Screen

tvONE’s C3-510 CORIOmaster mini video wall processor is driving a 180m² LED screen housed in the ceiling of a passageway running through the centre of Fen Court, a new 15-storey office and retail development in the city of London. The installation saw AV system integrator Sysco team up with UK distributor PSCo (part of the … Read more

DxOMark Releases Analysis of iPhone XS Max Camera

DxOMark has just published the results of its in-depth analysis of the Apple iPhone XS Max smartphone camera. The company says that, although the camera specs appear similar to the iPhone X, there are differences. The 12MP sensor in the dual-camera setup’s wide-angle module is now larger than before, featuring 1.4 µm pixels, and the … Read more

Samsung 7″ OLED Selected for Audi’s First All-Electric Vehicle

Samsung Display will be supplying a 7″ OLED display for Audi’s all-new electric SUV, the e-tron. The car-maker first showed the vehicle at a world premiere event in San Francisco, United States last month. It features virtual exterior mirrors — a first for a volume-production car, Samsung says. Side-view cameras allow the driver to see … Read more

Oledon Reveals New Solution for Improving OLED Yield Rate

Korea’s Oledon has recently developed vertical-plane evaporation source deposition technology capable of mass-producing OLED TVs of 77″ or larger, using ultra-large substrates of up to 12G (3300 × 4000mm). A company representative explained that manufacturing TVs of more than 75″ using the conventional in-line evaporation process can be subject to significant drops in yield rate … Read more