South Korea’s electronics giant LG Display confirmed July 26th that it will invest 15 trillion Won (about $13.5 bn) to boost production of OLED screens, for TV sets and cellular devices. LG said its board had approved its plan to invest 7.8 trillion won in new OLED production facilities located in Paju in Gyeonggi Province. […]
Following a statement of intent in February, UK communications infrastructure company Arqiva and Samsung Electronics have confirmed that the first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology in the UK and Europe is now live in central London. Powered by Samsung’s 5G network solution and customer premises equipment (CPE), and using Arqiva’s 28GHz […]
Netflix has ordered a new adult-animation series from Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. The show, entitled Disenchantment, will whisk viewers away to the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, where they will follow the misadventures of a hard-drinking young princess named Bean. It will premiere on Netflix in 2018 with ten episodes, with a further […]
A new studio complex has been built in Park Royal, London to house Alaraby, a TV station beaming programming to the Arab world, and financed by Qatar. Alaraby TV started broadcasting in 2015 from a shared studio, but its new complex will eventually be home initially 200 journalists and technicians – and as many as […]
A report from Paris-based satellite consultancy Euroconsult says that the In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) sector of the industry is going to enjoy “fabulous growth” although the study admits that predicting revenue patterns is still a challenge. The study is echoed by London-based Inmarsat, which is boosting its coverage of the globe in order to […]
Barclays Corporate Banking’s UK Video Gamers Trends Survey finds that female gamers are the hidden gem in the UK video gaming crown. British women look set to spend £1.1 billion on video games and their accessories over the next 12 months – a third of the total £3.5 billion projected spend for British adults over […]
Just days after announcing it will show every minute of every Tour de France until 2023, Eurosport recorded an average viewing number of 785,000 over the 21 stages, a 10 per cent increase versus 2016. Significant year-on-year growth was recorded in Germany (+37 per cent), Spain (+32 per cent), Italy (+17 per cent), Denmark (+8 […]
Air China, the flag carrier and one of the major airlines of the People’s Republic of China, has selected in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) solutions from Panasonic Avionics for its fleet of Airbus A350 aircraft. Under the terms of the agreement, Panasonic will provide its eX3 in-flight entertainment for 10 Air China A350 aircraft. The […]
In a move that will help it keep track of illegally-shared content on its platform, Facebook has acquired intellectual property start-up Source3. Announcing the deal on its official website, Source3 founders Patrick F Sullivan, Benjamin Cockerham and Scott Sellwood, said: “Today, we wanted to let everyone know that we’ve decided to continue our journey with […]
The overall annual impact of film and TV piracy on the Italian economy is estimated at €1.2 million of lost revenue, resulting in an €427 million contraction of GDP and 6,540 lost jobs. The figures are from research conducted by