RealD and MasterImage continue their alleged patent infringement battle over 3D light doublers, to a weary audience. Equally weary is RealD’s tendency to overstate its position, a peculiar habit for a public company. The latest overstep was in December with a press release titled “RealD Prevails Over MasterImage In Patent Infringement Action,” referring to a
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Archives for February 2016
The Changing Definition of Signal
The digitization of signals has evolved over time. Digital signals, which inherently require more bandwidth than their analog counterparts that they are intended to replace, generally require digital compression to fit the signal into available bandwidth. Digital signals allow low bandwidth metadata to accompany it, metadata fulfilling the role of “data about the data,” which
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M&A Activity
Three merger and acquistions worth noting made headlines recently. With sequential announcements, Rentrak acquired Hollywood Software (owner of the digicine.com domain used as the namespace in Interop distributions), followed by the announcement that Rentrak itself would be acquired by comScore. In a similar timeframe, Fandango acquired competitors Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster, and OTT and mobile
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