Lenovo Kills Vibe
Chinese sources have said that Lenovo will phase out its Vibe smartphone brand, in favour of replacing it with the Lemon series and Motorola branding, in the China market.
SDC to Win Huawei Orders
Huawei is said to be looking at placing panel orders with Samsung Display, rather than current supplier Japan Display, according to sources in Asia. The Chinese company is seeking lower-priced panels, to be able to offer cheaper mid-range and high-end smartphones next year.
Atheer Reveals More about AiR in Interview
With the recent release of their AiR glasses as well as platform, Atheer is aiming strongly at the enterprise market like so many other AR glasses and software developers. The recipe is simple, develop the glasses according to some science fiction Hollywood movie and when the consumer are not lining up to buy the hardware, … Read more
ACES WCG/HDR Encoding Explained
The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) has long puzzled me. At the November 18th section meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and Television New York chapter, Jim Houston, co-chair of the ACES Project Committee, gave an explanation of ACES that finally made sense to me. He primarily discussed the recently released version 1.0 of … Read more
Tellywood Focuses on Immersive Content
2015 hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster film release year but SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) 2015 Symposium attendees are eternally optimistic that tomorrow’s releases will be richer, better and there will be more. While VR (virtual reality) has become a steady fare for the video game industry, manufacturers and academics opened the … Read more
Volvo Cars to develop next generation automotive technologies with Microsoft
Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, will work together with Microsoft, the leading platform and productivity company, to jointly develop next generation automotive technologies. The two companies today revealed how Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first fully untethered holographic computer, might be used in future to redefine how customers first encounter and explore a car, as … Read more
Technicolor Completes Cisco CPE Acquisition
Technicolor has completed its acquisition of Cisco’s customer premises equipment business (this includes the set-top box division), in a cash and stock agreement worth $600 million (Technicolor Acquires Cisco’s CPE Business). The companies have also signed a strategic agreement, enabling both to develop and deliver ‘next-generation’ video and broadband technologies. Technicolor will immediately begin to … Read more
Rising Large Panel Area Offsets Falling Units
Large-area display shipments will fall 5% YoY in 2015, says IHS – but the news is not all bad. While unit shipments will decline to 682 million units, large-area TFT-LCD shipment area will grow 5%, helping to offset the fall. Total unit shipments are being driven down by a combination of factors. As well as … Read more
ITRI Reports Breakthrough in OLED Lifetime
Taiwan-based ITRI has reported the development of a new OLED device architecture that significantly increases the lifetime of RGB OLED displays. The new structure, called a Plasmon-Coupled Organic Light Emitting Diode (PCOLED), boosts the lifetime by 27 times, compared to the conventional blue fluorescent/red & green phosphorescent structure. The figure below shows the PCOLED architecture … Read more
V-Nova’s PERSEUS powers first UltraHD broadcast of Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, football’s “El Clásico”
V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of video compression solutions, announced today that its innovative PERSEUS technology was deployed by Mediapro’s Overon for visually lossless contribution of the November 21 “El Clásico” match between Real Madrid and Barcelona played at the Santiago Bernabau stadium in Madrid, Spain. The PERSEUS-powered contribution link was a critical part of … Read more
Perseus Chosen for Live UltraHD Broadcast
Mediapro’s Overon used V-Nova’s Perseus compression codec for an UltraHD broadcast of a football match (‘El Clásico’) between Real Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain, on the 21st November. Live footage was encoded at the stadium by V-Nova’s P.Link solution, contributing ‘visually lossless’ content with latency of 240ms, over a 1Gbps fibre connection to the Movistar … Read more
Optoma launches 1080p multimedia streaming device
Optoma has just launched a new 1080p multimedia streaming dongle, the HDCast Pro. This device plugs into a projector or TV’s HDMI port to enable wireless streaming of movies, videos, photos, music, documents or websites straight from a smartphone, tablet or laptop. It will also stream digital content stored on a home network. But it … Read more
