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Microsoft Perceptive Pixel on the Move

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PPI Perceptive Pixel Display July 2012 shown running Win8, Source: AllthingsD.com Emerging Technology – Down Australia way it’s the end of a long winter and coming into spring, a fitting place for news of a resurgence of the somewhat dormant Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI) now owned by Microsoft (MS.) There we heard the recent revelation … Read more

IMID by the Numbers

EXCO waits for IMID 2014 to begin. (Photo: Ken Werner)

Technology – The Korean Information Display Society’s International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) has been held each year since 2001, mostly in Daegu, South Korea — a large commercial city known, a tour guide said, for apples, beautiful women and being the place where Samsung got its start. The venue this year, as it has … Read more

Neuroscience Altering the Way Moving Images are Produced

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Technology – One of the human factors that has always been extremely relevant to display technology is the way that images are perceived in the brain. In addition to the art and technology of producing static and moving pictures, the neuroscience of perception has slowly caught up in film and video production. Recent studies, however, … Read more

How Many Pixels are Enough?

TV makers and retailers are revving up their ultra-high definition (UHD) awareness programs. Thus, as night follows day, critics are intensifying their argument that UHD (or 4Kx2K) television cannot be distinguished from today’s full-high-definition or FHD (or 2Kx1K) television at the distances American and European viewers typically watch TVs in their rooms. This argument is … Read more

Telstra to acquire Ooyala for cloud-based TV and video

Telstra to acquire Ooyala to build leading personalized cloud-based TV and video platform company Telstra’s investment enables Ooyala to accelerate growth and extend market lead as highly capitalized, independently operated business SYDNEY and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (August 7, 2014) — Telstra, one of the largest telecommunications and information services companies in the world, and Ooyala, … Read more

TV TEM in Brazil Expands Over-The-Air DTV Network with GatesAir

Broadcast & Distribution – GatesAir, a global leader in over-the-air broadcast solutions for television and radio, is expanding TV TEM’s ISDB-Tb digital television network to cover an additional 139 cities in the state of São Paulo. The current installation marks the third phase of an aggressive single-frequency network (SFN) rollout that will bring exceptional HDTV … Read more