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AOC Announces Gold Sponsorship for UK Esports Awards 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Display specialist, AOC, has announced its Gold sponsorship for the first ever UK Esports Awards 2018. The event, which will be live-streamed on Twitch, will take place on July 7th at ESL’s Studio 1 …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| eSports| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Oppo UHD Blu-ray Players Now Support Sony Dolby Vision TVs

by Andrew Fenn

Oppo has released a firmware update for its line of Ultra HD Blu-ray disc players, adding support for Sony’s Dolby Vision-compatible TVs. Oppo’s players join a minority of devices that are currently able to …

Ocean Outdoor Acquires Scottish Digital-Out-of-Home Firm

by Andrew Fenn

Ocean Outdoor has acquired Forrest Media, a leading provider of large format outdoor media solutions in Scotland, for £200 million ($267.7 million). The deal expands Ocean’s national footprint and enhances its position as a …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 25 - Issue 22

IHS: iPhone X Led Global Smartphone Unit Shipments in 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

As global smartphone shipments reached 345.5 million units in the first quarter of 2018, Apple iPhone X was the leading model, with 12.7 million units shipped. According to IHS Markit, iPhone 8 ranked second, …

MediaTek Adds Chip for High Mid-Range

by Bob Raikes

Mediatek has a new chip, the Helio P22 application processor for ‘new premium’ high end mid-tier devices and uses a 12nm manufacturing process, also used on the P60 which was announced earlier this year. …

Tags:Application Processors| Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Large Panel Shipments Rise in May

by Yvette Raikes

In May large panel shipments for the “big four” rose 13.2% MoM and 9.1% YoY to 20.928 million. AUO saw monthly revenue of NT$25.744 billion ($862 million), an increase of 5.2% MoM but down …

Horowitz: Competition from dMVPDs Puts New Spin on US Pay TV Subs

by Andrew Fenn

76% of TV viewers now subscribe to a traditional pay TV service, down from 86% in 2014, according to Horowitz Research. Just 71% of 18-34 year-olds subscribe to a traditional pay TV service, compared …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| Vol 25 - Issue 22

UK VR Industry to Grow at 34% CAGR from 2018 to 2022

by Andrew Fenn

PwC predicts that the Entertainment and Media sector will be worth £76 billion by 2022, up from £68 billion this year, and that the UK’s virtual reality sector will be the fastest growing segment …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 22

CES Asia Innovation Awards for VR/AR Products

by Matthew Brennesholtz

CES Asia, to be held June 13-15, 2018 in Shanghai, China, has announced its Innovation Awards. I’ve been focusing recently on AR and VR and two of the awards caught may eye. The first …

Asus Project Precog is a Dual-Screen Notebook

by Bob Raikes

At the Computex event, Asus has shown Project Precog, a clamshell notebook design base on a dual display concept that runs in stand, book, tent and flat mode and uses one of the displays …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 22

40% of US Broadband Households Own a Streaming Media player

by Andrew Fenn

New research from Parks Associates shows that ownership of streaming media players has risen from about 6% of US broadband households in 2010 to almost 40% at the beginning of 2018. The data indicates …

Apple Sued for $5 Million Over Broken Apple Watch Screens

by Andrew Fenn

Apple has been served with a $5 million class-action lawsuit in California, which claims that the company has sold millions of smartwatches with defective screens, since its original Apple Watch in 2015, through to …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22