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MMediaTech: August 2011
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Home Video Business in H1 2011. Some facts according to a report compiled by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. For the six months that ended June 30, total consumer spending on home entertainment fell 5%. From spending in the first half of 2010, to $8.34 billion from $8.78 billion. Disc sales were off 16.3%. Rental revenue fell 29%. Subcription rental, chiefly from. Netflix, rose 45.7%. Source: Home Media Magazine.
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MMediaTech: November 2011
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Thursday, November 24, 2011. 8220;VideoSurf’s content analytics technology will enhance the search and discovery of entertainment content. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. Online video revenues to triple. Consumption of legitimate free and paid for online video is on track to exceed 770 billion views across the USA, UK, France and Germany this year, according to a new report from Futuresource Consulting. 8221; advised Mai Hoang, Senior Analyst at ...
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MMediaTech: March 2012
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Friday, March 16, 2012. Cisco Systems announced that it would be buying set-top box software maker the NDS Group for $5 billion in cash. NDS, founded in Israel in 1988 and now headquartered in London, focuses on seamless content streaming between different devices, as well as content protection security to combat piracy. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Light and depth sensor. Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology has created what they clai...
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MMediaTech: April 2011
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Monday, April 11, 2011. Texas Instruments to acquire National Semiconductor. Signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire National Semiconductor Corp. For $6.5 billion in cash, the company said Monday April 4. The deal, which remains subject to regulatory review and the approval of National's shareholders, would bring together two of the longest-running semiconductor companies and two of the largest vendors of analog chips. Video Challenge: ...
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MMediaTech: January 2012
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Saturday, January 28, 2012. DisplaySearch released the new Quarterly TV Design and Features Report. The report finds that North American consumers favor large, inexpensive TV sets with fewer features, unlike other regions. Chinese consumers are enthusiastic about richly-featured sets with 3D, LED backlighting and smart TV capabilities. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Ex-CDM Optics (Omnivision) ...
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MMediaTech: September 2011
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Thursday, September 8, 2011. LG, Philips and Sharp have agreed to work together to define common technical requirements for their Smart TVs, based upon open standards such as HTML5, CE-HTML and HbbTV. The beta version of the common SDK will be released in early October. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Video Coding Team Leader at the Advanced System Technology R&D Labs of STMicroelectronics, Italy. View my complete profile. Good News from Germany.
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MMediaTech: Light & depth sensor
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Light and depth sensor. Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology has created what they claim is the first CMOS sensor that can collect both visible light data (which you’d use for a normal digital image) and depth data (like a Kinect). It’s accomplished by mixing in depth-sensing pixels with the RGB photosites normally found on such sensors. 1920×720 color image and a 480×360 depth image. Labels: CMOS image sensors.
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MMediaTech: October 2011
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Sunday, October 30, 2011. Friday, October 21, 2011. Of the popular Adobe Flash Player added quite some interesting features. Stage 3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering. Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming. HDS) — Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) provides protection for streaming video across screens while eliminating the deployment complexity of a license server. H264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras. 8212; Flash Player and AIR now include sup...
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MMediaTech: Cisco buys NDS
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Friday, March 16, 2012. Cisco Systems announced that it would be buying set-top box software maker the NDS Group for $5 billion in cash. NDS, founded in Israel in 1988 and now headquartered in London, focuses on seamless content streaming between different devices, as well as content protection security to combat piracy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Light and depth sensor. VP8 scalable hardware encoder. The *MPE...
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MMediaTech: VP8 scalable hardware encoder
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News and hot topics from the world of Multimedia Technology. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. VP8 scalable hardware encoder. Released the fifth generation of the hardware encoder for VP8, internally known as “Evergreen”. In this release they focused on improving the real-time communication features and on optimizing the encoding speed and visual quality. In particular, they have now enabled temporal and spatial scalability for VP8 video coding. There are no companies offering ITU-T/MPEG SVC ( scalable video coding.