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Headphone Shipments Achieve Q1 2019 Revenues of $5.9 Billion
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Headphone Shipments Achieve Q1 2019 Revenues of $5.9 Billion

Consumer appetite for premium headphones continues to grow, with global revenues rising five times faster than shipments in Q1 2019, according to the latest market tracker report from Futuresource Consulting. As the CE Team at Futuresource highlights in its latest update of the Worldwide Headphone Market Report, headphone market revenues have reached $5.9 billion. True wireless maintained its ascendance, outperforming all other form factors with growth of 223% in units and 188% in value.
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B&C Speakers Joins Rare Earth Industry Association (REIA)
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B&C Speakers Joins Rare Earth Industry Association (REIA)

A group of stakeholders from the Rare Earth supply chain met recently for The Global Rare Earth Industry Association Conference, June 25- 27 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting was also the first General Assembly to establish a global association to develop an integrated, de-risked and sustainable value chain for rare earth materials. The Rare Earth Industry Association (REIA) was founded by 12 organisations, including Italian loudspeaker manufacturer B&C Speakers, which was already part of a European-funded project committed to the reuse of rare-earth magnets.
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Chirp Data-Over-Sound Technology Supports ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-M Based Architectures
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Chirp Data-Over-Sound Technology Supports ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-M Based Architectures

Chirp, the company that pioneered data-over-sound technology, announced its support of Arm Cortex-A and Cortex-M based architectures, enhancing device-to-device connectivity on any Arm-based product with audio capabilities. This follows the recent release of Chirp’s Arm SDK, which provides a software-defined acoustic data transmission solution, optimized for Arm processors and substantially lowers the cost for applications such as device provisioning, proximity detection, 2-way acoustic NFC and telemetry in RF-restricted environments.
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NPR And Edison Research Release The Smart Audio Report Spring 2019
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NPR And Edison Research Release The Smart Audio Report Spring 2019

The Smart Audio Report Spring 2019 is part of the industry's longest-running public research series about smart speaker consumer behavior in the U.S.. The updated research reveals how smart speaker user behavior and perceptions are evolving as owners 'settle in' with their devices and the market matures out of its introductory phase. According to the survey promoted by NPR And Edison Research, seven-in-ten smart speaker owners use their device daily despite common concerns around security and privacy, while those same factors are leading reasons non-owners have not acquired a device.
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Six Leading Global TV Manufacturers Embrace the WiSA Immersive Audio Standard
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Six Leading Global TV Manufacturers Embrace the WiSA Immersive Audio Standard

WiSA, the Wireless Speaker and Audio Association, comprised of more than 60 leading consumer electronics brands, announced it has expanded its reach to 6 top, global TV manufacturers. Its newest members include Compal, which ships TVs under the Toshiba brand, and Fengmi, an Xiaomi Technology ecosystem company and leading laser projection TV manufacturer. Together, they join LG Electronics, Foxconn, TCL, and Bang & Olufsen as WiSA members to bring WiSA Ready products that offer hi-definition, multi-channel audio home entertainment experiences.
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VESA Publishes Displayport 2.0 Video Standard Leveraging Thunderbolt 3 Physical Interface Layer
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VESA Publishes Displayport 2.0 Video Standard Leveraging Thunderbolt 3 Physical Interface Layer

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced the DisplayPort 2.0 video standard, the first major update to the DisplayPort standard since March 2016, increasing data bandwidth performance up to three times more than the previous version of DisplayPort 1.4a. Utilizing the Thunderbolt 3 physical interface layer and USB Type-C connector, DisplayPort 2.0 boosts the data and video bandwidth to a maximum payload of 77.37 Gbps, while new built-in features enable improved user experience, provide greater flexibility and improve power efficiency.
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AVIXA Forecasts Global Pro-AV Industry Will Reach $325 Billion in 2024
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AVIXA Forecasts Global Pro-AV Industry Will Reach $325 Billion in 2024

The global professional audiovisual industry will grow to more than $325 billion in 2024, from $247 billion in 2019, according to updated forecasts in the new 2019 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA) Global Summary produced by AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. Overall, the demand for pro-AV products and services is driven by rising GDP across much of the globe because the pro-AV industry provides solutions to nearly all facets of the economy.
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Futuresource Looks at Consumers Engagement with Audio Hardware & Content
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Futuresource Looks at Consumers Engagement with Audio Hardware & Content

Futuresource Consulting announced a brand new consumer market research program – Living with Audio: Consumer Engagement with Audio Hardware and Content. This new service from the market research firm provides an in-depth look at how consumers are engaging with home devices, headphones, smart speakers and audio content. The research answers questions around how many and what devices consumers own in their household, how they are currently using the devices and how often.
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InfoComm 2019 Consolidates Its Position as the Leading Event for the AV Industry in North America
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InfoComm 2019 Consolidates Its Position as the Leading Event for the AV Industry in North America

By the show’s end, InfoComm 2019 counted 44,129 registered attendees, of which 37 percent were attending for the first time and 18 percent traveled to the show from 117 countries outside the U.S. This is still a positive trend, considering that InfoComm 2018 set a new record for attendance in Las Vegas, when the trade show attracted nearly 43,000 registered attendees, and the fact that the previous edition of InfoComm in Orlando had logged 44,077 registered attendees (a 13% growth compared to 2015, also in Orlando).
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Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Receives the European Inventor Award 2019
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Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Receives the European Inventor Award 2019

Dr. Akira Yoshino, Asahi Kasei Honorary Fellow, has received the European Inventor Award 2019 by the European Patent Office (EPO) in the category of Non-EPO countries for his invention and refinement of the lithium-ion battery. The award ceremony was held on June 20, 2019, in Vienna, Austria, at the Wiener Stadthalle and was attended by some 600 guests from the fields of intellectual property, politics, business, science and academia.
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