The Connecticut Consumer Counsel is seeking to avoid a possible state commission ruling that could discourage municipal fiber networks, said Office of Consumer Counsel officials in an interview. But telecom companies and workers said it’s about keeping the playing field level. The matter, involving use of a space on utility poles reserved for municipal use, could go to court or the Legislature, the OCC officials said. The FCC is mulling pole attachment issues in broadband infrastructure rulemakings.
Industry observers are watching FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly on an commission proposal to reserve at least one blank TV channel in every market for white spaces devices and wireless mics after the TV incentive auction and repacking. Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler circulated an NPRM in June 2015 (see 1506160043). In recent weeks, Microsoft has been at the FCC to urge the agency to move forward. NAB is countering the Microsoft arguments.
Industry observers are watching FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly on an commission proposal to reserve at least one blank TV channel in every market for white spaces devices and wireless mics after the TV incentive auction and repacking. Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler circulated an NPRM in June 2015 (see 1506160043). In recent weeks, Microsoft has been at the FCC to urge the agency to move forward. NAB is countering the Microsoft arguments.
Industry observers are watching FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly on an commission proposal to reserve at least one blank TV channel in every market for white spaces devices and wireless mics after the TV incentive auction and repacking. Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler circulated an NPRM in June 2015 (see 1506160043). In recent weeks, Microsoft has been at the FCC to urge the agency to move forward. NAB is countering the Microsoft arguments.
Dell will use Corning’s Iris glass as the light-guide plate for an upcoming line of “ultra-thin and ultra-bright monitors,” Corning CEO Wendell Weeks told his company’s annual investor conference Friday. Corning introduced Iris glass as the basis for light-guide plates at CES two years ago as a means of enabling ultra-thin LCD TVs that could better compete with the form factor of OLED sets (see 1501090015).
HOLLYWOOD -- Journalists are to blame for instigating industry talk that there’s a high-dynamic-range “format war” between Dolby Vision and HDR10, when there's none, Walt Husak, Dolby Labs director-image technologies, told the Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers conference Thursday. “Anybody that’s ever had any experience with a journalist knows that they like to create conflict, because it sells,” said Husak. He then spent chunks of his 30-minute presentation trumpeting the superiority of Dolby Vision over HDR10, hailing it as the future “standard” for HDR.
Corning expects “large-size” LCDs “to remain far and away the dominant technology” over OLED in big-screen TVs, CEO Wendell Weeks told a Sanford Bernstein conference Thursday. Far from perceiving OLED as a threat to Corning's leadership position as a supplier of LCD glass, “the beauty of the thin OLED display is a great thing for Corning because it drives a new aesthetic need and consumer desire that we think you can meet with a third piece of glass that we call Iris,” Weeks said of the glass-based light-guide plate technology for edge-lit LCD TVs that Corning introduced at the January 2015 CES (see 1501090015).
OLED microdisplay supplier eMagin sees 2016 as an “important year” for its “strategic focus” of adapting technology it has perfected in its “core” military business and “making inroads into the consumer market” for high contrast, high brightness virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets, CEO Andrew Sculley said on a Thursday earnings call.
OLED microdisplay supplier eMagin sees 2016 as an “important year” for its “strategic focus” of adapting technology it has perfected in its “core” military business and “making inroads into the consumer market” for high contrast, high brightness virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets, CEO Andrew Sculley said on a Thursday earnings call.
Hoping to do what some technology companies haven’t successfully done, Israeli gesture recognition company EyeSight is bringing to market a plug-in device that controls connected devices by finger motions. The AC-powered device, which resembles a horizontal portable speaker, packs Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios, an infrared code database for 150,000 devices and computer vision software and sensors, CEO Gideon Shmuel told us on a press tour in New York.