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On November 4, NEC’s professional A/V division mounted its New York ShowCase to give its partners a chance to show their wares. The event was held at SIR Stage 37, a 37th-street exhibition venue on New York’s far west side. The block is still gritty, but since it’s near the Hudson Yards gentrification area, its … Read more
LG Smart TV will launch selected channels from Opera TV’s portfolio in eight markets: the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, USA, Mexico and Brazil. The first phase of the Opera TV launch will include up to 18 channels in each country with thousands of videos ranging from movies and TV series, music, sports, news, … Read more
This BCC Research report looks at the MEMS market and provides a road map to the technologies and applications that are most likely to be successfully commercialized in the next five years, includes forecast through 2020. Highlights The global market for MEMS devices and production equipment was worth $11.7 billion in 2014. This market is … Read more
Anoto Group AB today announced an agreement to acquire Livescribe Inc. Livescribe will be fully integrated with Anoto as a wholly-owned subsidiary, with the deal expected to close later this month. Anoto is a global leader in digital writing and drawing solutions. Its technology platform and branded products enable high-precision pen or stylus input on … Read more
Anoto Group AB is to acquire digital pen maker Livescribe. Livescribe will act as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anoto when the deal is closed, expected to happen later this month. The deal will be used to broaden Anoto’s product portfolio, extend its business into the consumer market and retail distribution and add a digital note-taking … Read more
Video display processing company Pixelworks Inc. posted Q3 net losses of $1.2 million, an improvement on losses of $2.3 million a year earlier, on turnover of $16.6 million, down from $17.1 million. For the nine months, losses were up at $7.4 million from $7.2 million on sales of $46.0 million, an increase from $45.8 million. … Read more
Elko is now distributing ScreenMedia’s projection screen, mounts and lifts in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The head of French public service broadcaster France Televisions has said that up to 7% of households could lose DTT access, when the country moves to the MPEG-4 AVC platform on the 5th April next year. Currently, DTT is simulcast using MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
Free is now broadcasting an UltraHD channel in France: Festival 4K, dedicated to music festivals, concerts and similar. Access is included in Free’s basic Freebox package.
According to Dataxis, the pay-TV market in Colombia will reach 5.8 million households by 2018: a 3.4% rise from end-2015. Households with CATV services will have a 64.8% share of the country’s pay-TV market. Meanwhile, DTH networks will raise their share from 30% in 2015 to 34.9% in 2018. IPTV will grow from a 5.2% … Read more
The SMPTE 2015 Fall Conference is history now, but as usual, it was an information-packed event in Hollywood. Our focus was on displays, high dynamic range, color management and virtual reality for the most part, which means we did not have the bandwidth to cover video over IP, advanced audio, compression, file formats and workflows … Read more
During the last few days several news outlets have reported on a new wonder glass developed by Japanese Scientists that is “nearly unbreakable”, “almost as strong as steel” and “will be ready for commercialization” within five years. As a long time glass guy, I surely wanted to know what this is all about. Spoiler alert … Read more
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