Specialist 3D company RealD has successfully prevailed in a patent action against MasterImage 3D. A hearing before an International Trade Commission in Washington DC, and against MasterImage 3D’s Horizon3D cinema system products concluded that RealD’s patents were valid and infringed by MasterImage. RealD had filed an ITC complaint contending that the Horizon3D cinema systems infringe […]
ThinkAnalytics, the TV and video search and recommendations engine, has announced the appointment of Stuart McGeechan as Senior Vice President of Services and Operations. In this role, McGeechan will lead efforts to further strengthen the continued adoption and support of ThinkAnalytics technology worldwide. A broadcast industry veteran, McGeechan was most recently Vice President, Custom Engineering […]
Time Warner has confirmed that chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes has extended his contract and will continue to serve as head of the media giant for another three years. Bewkes has held the role of CEO since 2008 and chairman since 2009. He joined the Time Warner company in 1991 when he took on the […]
Nexstar Broadcasting Group has announced that it has completed the negotiation of terms for a transaction with Media General (MEG) under which Nexstar would acquire Media General for $10.55 per share in cash and 0.1249 of a share of Nexstar Class A common stock for each Media General share. In a statement, Nexstar said it […]
Operators need to get G.fast – a specification designed to provide gigabit broadband connection speeds – right if they want to take advantage of the huge opportunity available to enable and deliver up-and-coming technologies to consumers, Kevin Foster, the Chairman of Broadband Forum (and General Manager Access and CPE Innovation at BT) has warned. Speaking […]
With its first live over-the-air broadcast of 4K Ultra HD TV with high dynamic range (HDR) using the new ATSC 3.0 Candidate Standard, digital television pioneer LG Electronics (LG) is ushering in the era of next-generation television broadcasting at CES 2016. The landmark broadcast, from Las Vegas station KHMP-TV’s transmitter on Nevada’s Black Mountain, is […]
A minor reshuffle of the UK Labour Party opposition Shadow Cabinet has seen the sacking of Michael Dugher as Shadow Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport, to be replaced by Maria Eagle, previously Defence Secretary, effectively demoted for expressing her support for the Trident nuclear deterrent against the wishes of party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Eagle […]
Pay-radio operator Sirius XM has pleased the market by signing up an extra 2.3 million subscribers during its Q4, taking the total installed based to 29.6 million. It had guided the market to expect just 2 million extra subscribers during Q4. Sirius XM has a reputation for issuing conservative future guidance, and this latest snapshot […]
Media and entertainment technologist Technicolor has confirmed that a growing number of leading TV and STB System-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers are integrating Technicolor’s High Dynamic Range (HDR) Delivery Solution into their offerings, including: Marvell, MSTAR, Sigma and STMicroelectronics. The news paves the way for consumer electronics manufacturers to integrate Technicolor’s suite of HDR enhancement technologies into […]
LG Electronics (LG) has agreed key partnerships with premier technology companies and content providers to offer consumers more high-quality 4K HDR (high dynamic range) content. LG’s new OLED TVs and Super UHD TVs in 2016 are designed to support the current industry-standard HDR formats such as HDR10 and Dolby Vision. LG, Dolby and Netflix collaborated […]