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Kramer Acquires UC Workspace in Strategic Move to Expand the Boundaries of Collaboration

Kramer Electronics Ltd. announced the acquisition of UC Workspace (UCW), a pioneer and leader in unifying collaborative experiences. Uniting UCW’s and Kramer’s technology and product portfolios under one roof creates new and unique opportunities to bring a new level of simplicity, automation and collaboration to Enterprise and Education customers. UCW products facilitate engagement across multiple … Read more

Two VVC pools up and running – Big Companies Still Missing

IP VVC

What They Say IAM had an interesting summary of the issues of the IP licensing for the VVC codec following an announcement by MPEG-LA (MPEG LA Introduces Patent Pool License for Versatile Video Coding (VVC)). The article highlights that this is the second IP pool following announcements by Access Advance last summer (Links Week Ending … Read more

Karl Guttag Digs Deep into Magic Leap Presentation

What They Say Karl Guttag has reviewed the Magic Leap presentation presented last week and came to the conclusion that it doesn’t reveal much that couldn’t be discovered with a teardown. However, he also reported rumours that the firm might be setting itself up to be purchased. He looks at the decision to use LCOS … Read more

Links Week Ending 4th February 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in Germany Sony reveals more affordable A75K 4K OLED TVs iiyama: Business monitor with USB-C docking station ViewSonic: Color-calibrated 4K IPS monitor … Read more

NBC to Bring HDR, UltraHD and Atmos to Beijing 2022 Olympics

What They Say NBC will cover the Winter Olympics in UltraHD and with HDR for US viewers. NBC Sports will provide live coverage of the NBC broadcast network’s Olympics primetime and Prime Plus shows in certain markets in UHD/HDR with Atmos audio. NBCUniversal will distribute the 4K HDR coverage to U.S. distribution partners, who will … Read more

SmartKem and Nanosys Enter into Joint Development Agreement 

SmartKem, Inc., a company seeking to reshape the world of electronics with a revolutionary new organic semiconductor platform that enables a new generation of displays, and Nanosys, Inc., the leader in developing and delivering quantum dot and microLED technology, announced that they have entered into a joint development agreement to work together on a new … Read more

World’s Fastest Gaming Monitor Hits 500 Hz Refresh Rate

What They Say A Chinese news outlet, Sina, quoted by Tom’s Hardware and ComputerBase, reports that BOE has built a prototype/demo 500Hz 27″ FullHD monitor for gaming. The LCD uses an oxide backplane and is reported to have a 1ms response time. No details of the LC mode/mixture were given What We Think Of course, … Read more