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CAST introduces Ultra HD-capable video compression cores

Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. recently introduced the newest generation in its eighteen-year-long series of IP cores for video and image compression. The new 2016 Video and Image Compression Cores Family includes encoders and decoders covering a wide range of features and capabilities. Members of the family are each optimized for today’s most in-demand … Read more

Netflix and Amazon to See Revenues More Than Double, Reaching Almost $35 Billion by 2021

New data from Juniper Research has found that revenues from SVOD (subscription video on demand) services, such as Netflix and Amazon, are set to more than double from $14.6 billion this year, to $34.6 billion in 2021. Netflix now sees US subscriber numbers level with leading network providers DirecTV & Comcast (47 million and 47.7 … Read more

Ray Tracing Just Became Faster, Easier and Less Complex

A new technique, developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has increased the speed of rendering some particularly tricky graphics. Rendering specular highlights, or glints (such as reflections from uneven surfaces water, metals and other materials), is very complex. Light is scattered in many directions when it hits these surfaces, producing … Read more

BrightSign Powers Digital Signage Pillar at Westfield

BrightSign, LLC®, the global market leader in digital signage media players, and Project Audio Visual today announced the successful installation of a very unusual cylindrical digital signage column at theWestfield Shopping Centre in White City, London. Steve Hudson, Sales Director of Project Audio Visual, said, “We claim to be able to fulfil any brief, but … Read more

Nanoco and Wah Hong in QD Agreement

Nanoco Group has signed a seven-year supply and licensing agreement with Wah Hong Industrial Corporation to market cadmium-free quantum dots. The agreement will see Nanoco supplying its cadmium-free quantum dot resin, which Wah Hong will process and market it to its existing customers in the display industry.

Samsung Announces U.S. Availability of the SERIF TV

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., the leader in home entertainment for over 10 years, today announced that the Samsung SERIF TV is coming to the U.S. this summer. A true collaboration with acclaimed Parisian design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Samsung SERIF TV redefines the television experience. It will be available starting in August at … Read more

SMI Joins HTC

SensoMotoric Instruments has unveiled a developer kit for the HTC Vive headset. The head mounted display (HMD) has been modified with the addition of small cameras and IR light sources, to enable eye tracking at 250Hz, using SMI’s computer vision algorithms. The VR with eye tracking also provides features like foveated rendering, gaze interaction, personal … Read more