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Rovi Corporation and TiVo Inc. today announced that Rovi will acquire TiVo for $10.70 per share in cash and stock for total consideration of approximately $1.1 billion. The new company combines two media and entertainment technology innovators with complementary products, services, and intellectual property assets and a common mission to write the next chapter of … Read more
At the recent Sapphire Marketing road show, I had a chance to talk to Michael Bridwell, Vice President of Marketing and Digital Entertainment at Digital Projection. Digital Projection was showing three laser projectors at the road show, the E-Vision Laser 8500, E-Vision Laser 6500 and the Insight Laser 4K. Key specifications on these projectors are … Read more
Research firm IDTechEx holds printed electronics events twice a year: once in Berlin, and once in Santa Clara. We attended the European event at the end of April. In the past, IDTechEx held other events throughout the year focusing on topics such as wearables and energy harvesting; recently, the firm has combined all of them … Read more
Fraunhofer FEP has developed a way to fabricate flexible OLEDs on ultra-thin glass, and encapsulate them with an ultra-thin glass foil as part of the same process. These OLEDs will be shown at AIMCAL in Dresden from the 30th May – 2nd June. Fraunhofer believes that OLEDs will become a more widespread light source if … Read more
Samsung has proposed a dynamic metadata solution that is being considered by SMPTE. This was the first public demo of its benefits.
The demo features HDR vs. SDR vs. SDR-to-HDR upconversion.
NHK showed 8K cameras and video at NAB 2016 along with a demo of HDR on an 8K display.
Sony debuted a 55″ OLED monitor with quad view and HDR that is good for luminance grading.
A new AIO PC with very slim bezels, and a colour-critical professional monitor, have been announced by HP for a release this summer. A stand-out model among the three new AIO PCs is the HP Pavilion All-in-One with Micro-Edge Display, which is a bit of a mouthful. This 23.8″ (non-touch) unit has a narrow bezel … Read more
The EYE-TOLED-5500 – Eyevis’ transparent OLED display (Eyevis Prepares Transparent OLED) – has seen its first use in a commercial application. Several displays were used at the Geneva Motor Show in March to present Hyundai’s new Ionio passenger car. The installation featured an acrylic car model made of three separate sections. A display layer was … Read more
Eyevis video walls have been used in two European installations recently. The first consisted of 24 70″ EC-70-LHD-CP-1000 rear-projection cubes, for Norway’s Public Roads Administration in Leikanger. The video wall, which required a high degree of reliability, is used to monitor traffic across the PRA’s Region West. The second installation was in Bavaria, Germany. A … Read more
Texas Instruments reported Q1 2016 net profit of $668 million, up 2% YoY from $656 million. Turnover for the period was $3 billion, down 5% YoY from $3.1 billion. There was a decline of 5% across all segments of operations, with the exception of Silicon Valley Analog, on account of weakness in personal electronics.
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