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Latin American Pay-TV Sees Growth

by Yvette Raikes

There has been strong growth in pay-TV in Latin America, according to research shown at the April seminar of the Pay-TV Innovation Forum held in Las Vegas. The research was done by MTM, an …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Market Data| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Challenging Conditions Affect Africa’s Mobile Phone Market

by Yvette Raikes

Q1 mobile phone shipments in Africa were 54.5 million, down 8.2% QoQ, according to figures from IDC. Smartphones in particular saw a drop of 17.6% to 21.2 million units. However, the YOY market rose …

Tags:Emerging Markets| IDC| Market Data| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Worldwide Pay-TV Subscriptions Reach 969 Million

by Alan Spencer

Digital TV Research has estimated that there will be 254 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2010 and 2016 to take the worldwide total to 969 million, representing an increase of 35%. The information was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Chinese OLED Production Forecast

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research has released its forecast for the growth of AMOLED manufacturing in China. Seven China-based panel makers have been expanding existing or setting up new AMOLED production capacities, with the total annual capacity …

Tags:China| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Worldwide Semiconductor Sales See 21% YoY Rise in April

by Yvette Raikes

Worldwide semiconductor sales were up 21% YoY to $31.3 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, using WSTS figures. The market is predicted to grow by 11.5% this year and by a further 2.7% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Media Strategy Driven by Direct-to-consumer Technology

by Yvette Raikes

Technological advances, such as VR, are driving direct-to-consumer strategies, according to the global entertainment and media outlook for 2017 to 2021 from PwC. The consumer VR content market is expected to be worth $15.1 …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Xiaomi and Apple Lead the Wearables Market

by Yvette Raikes

The Q1 wearables market grew by 17.9% YoY, according to IDC, with 24.7 million devices shipped. Fitbit slipped down the rankings to third with Xiaomi and Apple challenging neck and neck for top spot …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22| Wearables

Netflix Will Have 128 million subscribers by 2022

by Yvette Raikes

Subscribers to Netflix will rise by 44% from 2016 to number 128 million in 2022, according to the figures published by Digital TV Research with the number of non-US subscribers outnumbering US subscribers by …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Auto Display Business Conference at SID 2017

by Steve Sechrist

The 2017 business conference track, co-hosted by SID and industry display research pioneer, Ross Young’s Digital Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC). This year the business track included an automotive market focus conference targeting Automotive Displays. …

Tags:Automotive| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

European Desktop Monitor Market is Positive

by Bob Raikes

The European Desktop market saw some year on year growth from 2016 in Q1 by 3.6%, although the market was down from Q1, a typical seasonal decline according to Meko’s DisplayCast service. On a …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Worldwide Shipments of AR/VR Headsets Rise Q1 2017

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, worldwide shipments of AR and VR headsets continued to rise with a total of 2.3 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2017. IDC is also forecasting triple-digit growth for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

UHD Blu-ray to Grow Slowly in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Futuresource Consulting has said in a report published by 4K.com that 8.4 million UltraHD Blu-ray disks will be sold in 2017, representing just 4% of all disc sales during the year and a very …

Tags:4k| Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 21