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Steering Board approves DVB-TA watermarking and DVB Home Broadcast spec

What They Say The DVB Steering Board has approved a new and an updated specification. The update was to the DVB Targeted Advertising specification to include watermarking as an alternative way to signal where content can be inserted in a broadcast. The new specification (DVB-HB/DVB Home Broadcast) allows client devices likes smartphones, tablets or HDMI … Read more

Steering Board Approves DVB-TA Watermarking and DVB Home Broadcast Spec

Last week’s meeting of the DVB Steering Board approved the publication of two BlueBooks, one an updated specification and the other a new specification. The DVB Targeted Advertising specification has been updated (BlueBook A178-1r1) to include watermarking as an alternative way to signal where content can be inserted in a broadcast. DVB Home Broadcast (BlueBook … Read more

VIZIO Ads Launches Glass-Level Frequency Control For TV Advertisers

VIZIO Ads, the award winning TV company’s direct-to-device advertising business, unveiled Universal Frequency Control, a new capability that enables brands to set limits on how often a VIZIO TV within a household is exposed to specific ad creative when placing an ad through its platform. Solving one of the biggest problems plaguing the over-the-top and … Read more

Roku Has a Good Q4

What They Say Roku had a good Q4 and good year in 2020 overall. The company went past 50 million active acounts, via players and Roku TVs and the company claimed 38% share of SmartTVs sold. For the year, revenue was up 58% to $1.778 billion and ARPU grew from $23.14 to $28.76 from Q4 … Read more

Solas OLED Settles Patent Disputes with LG Display Co

Solas OLED Ltd., an Irish company that specializes in OLED technologies that it licenses to consumer electronics manufacturers, has announced that it has entered into a Settlement and License Agreement with LG Display Co. resolving a number of patent infringement actions brought by Solas against LG Display and a certain number of its customers, including … Read more

Vuzix Expands and Enhances the Connectivity of its Smart Glasses with LiFi Support

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What They Say Vuzix put out a press release (it sends almost more than anyone!) that set out that it would support Signify’s Trulifi LiFi technology for low latency two-way wireless connectivity to its AR glasses. The technology will work with Gemvision software (a cloud-based, off the shelf Communication Platform as a Service (CPAAS) provider). … Read more

UDC Has Strong 2020 & Q4

What They Say OLED material supplier UDC has reported a strong end to a good year for its business. It reached record quarterly revenue of $141.5 million, up from $101.7 million in 2019. Material sales were $62.5 million and licensing income was $75 million. Net income was $53.9 million in Q4 up from $26.4 million … Read more

Apple TV+ Moves onto Google TV Platforms

What They Say Google has announced that the Apple TV+ streaming service is now available on Google TV, with the first implementation on Chromecast with Google TV. The service will become available later on TCL and Sony Android-based TVs. Apple Originals content in the personal recommendation engine. TechCrunch reports that the AppleTV+ is now available … Read more

Vuzix Expands and Enhances the Connectivity of its Smart Glasses with LiFi Support

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced an exciting new development with Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, to further reduce latency for Vuzix Smart Glasses in areas where radio-based devices might have poor to limited connectivity. Supporting the fourth industrial revolution in enterprise … Read more

Frost & Sullivan Forecasts $661.4 Billion AR and VR Technology Market

What They Say I see a lot of forecasts for AR & VR and most of them I ignore. However, I saw one from Frost & Sullivan that forecast revenues of $661.4 billion of revenues by 2025, a CAGR of 86.3%. $161 billion will come from manufacturing which will exploit the technology alongside robotics in … Read more