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Long associated with personal phones, the vertical format could soon become a permanent fixture in living rooms. In China, several manufacturers are developing mobile home screens, larger than a smartphone, capable of natively displaying content in portrait orientation. These screens, usually mounted on stands, can be oriented in portrait or landscape mode, and are sometimes equipped with a built-in battery, and are designed to move around the house. They can be moved from th

Viu is a streaming platform owned by the Hong Kong-based PCCW Group. The service is available in several markets across Asia, the Middle East, and South Africa, with 15.5 million paid subscribers at the end of December 2024. Since then, the company has reached 16.8 million paid subscribers, and subscription revenue has grown by 13% year-over-year. On January 8, 2026, Viu announced Viu Shorts, a new section of vertical videos integrated directly into the Viu mobile app. It's n

With the Walkman, music left the living room, the hi-fi system, and shared listening, to enter the rhythm of movement. It became part of the body. Headphones on, you no longer "put on" music: you wear it. Shuhei Hosokawa, a Japanese researcher and theorist of musical cultures, described in the early 1980s this individualized listening zone which partially cuts off auditory contact with the outside and transforms the street into a scenery to be passed through, rather than a sp