TI Ships DLP Cinema Enhanced 4K Chips

Texas Instruments announced that it has started shipping DLP Cinema Enhanced 4K chips to its licensees, Barco, Christie Digital and NEC. According to the statement, projectors with the DLP Cinema 4K chip are expected to be installed in Q1 2011 and several industry demos are anticipated between now and then by DLP Cinema licensees.

NEC Technology Detects Illegal Video Copies in Seconds

NEC Corporation announced the development of a video content identification technology that detects illegal copies of video content uploaded to the Internet in a matter of seconds. According to the statement, this technology generates a fingerprint (video signature) to identify video content then compares video signatures to the signatures of original content in order to …

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Is Multi CD-R Too Late for the Party?

NEC and TEAC have fused Phase-Change Dual (PD) and CD-Recordable into a single hybrid device called Multi CD-R or CD-R Plus. A veritable Swiss Army Knife of optical storage, this new drive can read and rewrite PD media, read CD-ROMs at 20X CAV, and record CDs at double speed.