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Elemental Says Content Delivery Providers Starting to Adopt More Sophisticated Methods

December 24, 2014 by Bob Raikes

Broadcast & Distribution – Elemental Technologies delivered a webinar titled, “Creating scalable workflows for file-based video delivery.” It laid out several architectures that content delivery providers are able to configure – with Elemental products, of course. According to presenter Mike Callahan, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Elemental, some of their customers are now moving … Read more

Editorial Policy

December 23, 2014 by Bob Raikes

Meko makes every endeavour to ensure that it publishes accurate and timely news about the display industry and the ecosystems around the display industry. If you feel that we have made a mistake or you spot a correction, please let us know by using our contact form. Meko makes no charge for publishing news and … Read more

IZON And Stream TV Team Up For Glasses-Free 3D Product Launch

December 23, 2014 by Bob Raikes

Dec. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Stream TV Networks, Inc.™ is pleased to announce that U.S. television maker IZON, LLC has committed to a 2015 release of Ultra-D enabled products in collaboration with Stream TV. IZON had previously explored other 3D solutions but has decided with Stream TV to mutually combine capabilities in the 3D industry. … Read more

3D Omnia Introduces Cinema Polarization Modulator

December 23, 2014 by Matthew Brennesholtz

Projection – Digital Cinema – 3D Omnia (Gwangmyeong, South Korea) has introduced an improved polarization modulator for 3D digital cinema that the company says will significantly increase the efficiency of polarized 3D systems, thereby increasing the screen brightness of the 3D image for an exhibitor who doesn’t have the option of buying a higher-output projector. … Read more

Research Shows Streaming Content is on the Way Up

December 23, 2014 by Bob Raikes

Video streaming is the way of the future for many analysts. Two new research studies show more evidence for this trend. The first survey from TiVo Research shows that US Millennials favor streaming services over all other forms of content distribution. They also break down the access and content type by generation. Source: TiVo Research … Read more

Sony’s Brand Image Hits Low Levels

December 23, 2014 by Bob Raikes

Variety reports that Sony has hit a 6 year low in terms of its brand perception, citing data from the YouGov Brand Index. The result reflects negative feelings because of recent hacks and the furore over the “The Interview”.

Xiaomi: Success May Make Life More Difficult

December 23, 2014 by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has had tremendous success with their low cost high featured smartphone line, kicking Samsung from the smartphone throne in China earlier this year. As a Chinese vendor, they have something of a home field advantage that has allowed them to become a major player in the Asian region. Their market valuation has grown from … Read more

Is Owning Content an Advantage for Hardware Makers?

December 23, 2014 by Raverstead

I promised, back in August, to come back to a topic that has kept surfacing me over a number of years. When I started the Display Monitor newsletter, back in 1994, the undoubted king of the consumer electronics world was Sony. The company had been one of the great brands that came out of the … Read more

Ingram Signs With Acronn

December 22, 2014 by Raverstead

Ingram Micro is now distributing large-size displays from Acronn in Italy. Acronn is a brand of Eurosell, used for LED displays.

Elemental Aligns with Telstra and Sky

December 22, 2014 by Raverstead

December 22, 2014. With our series D funding announcement today, industry watchers may ask: why is now the right time for Elemental to accept strategic investment from key customers? As with any financing round, the timing and the deal need to be right. But fundamentally, it boils down to a shared belief that we can … Read more

Google Looking to Displace HEVC Compression

December 22, 2014 by Raverstead

Broadcast & Distribution – HEVC, or “High Efficiency Video Coding,” is showing promise to make internet-delivered Ultra-HDTV a reality, as it can provide about a 50% bitrate saving over MPEG 4/AVC (H.264), becoming a practical solution to offering 4k content to the home. But while MPEG and HEVC have been developed by standards committees fronting … Read more

Pixelworks to Demonstrate Its Industry-Leading Video Processing Technology at CES 2015

December 22, 2014 by Bob Raikes

Company’s video quality advancements for next generation displays provide clearer detail and smoother motion for an enhanced user experience SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 19, 2014– Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PXLW), an innovative provider of video display processing technology, will demonstrate how its technology is being used to improve image quality across a broad range of screens, from … Read more