Vol 22 – Issue 01 – Page 5

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

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. …

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Research Shows Streaming Content is on the Way Up

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 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Sony’s Brand Image Hits Low Levels

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”. …

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Xiaomi: Success May Make Life More Difficult

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 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 01| Xiaomi

Is Owning Content an Advantage for Hardware Makers?

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 …

Tags:Content Protection| sony| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Elemental Aligns with Telstra and Sky

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, …

Tags:Elemental Technologies| Europe| Sky| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Google Looking to Displace HEVC Compression

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 …

Tags:Google| HEVC (H.265)| Vol 22 - Issue 01| VP9