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Today's Top Stories #1 Comcast to acquire DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion   By Paul Jeffers, Hollywood Reporter   Comcast's NBCUniversal made things official on Thursday, unveiling a deal to acquire DreamWorks Animation in a deal that puts an equity value of $3.8 billion on the studio, or an enterprise value of $4.1 billion when including debt. More» Why This Matters: For you theme park folks, DreamWorks is now under the same parent as Universal. No doubt the DreamWorks IP will be considered for it's ride-worthiness (Shrek of course is already a ride). And if you own DreamWorks stock, congrats. –Cynthia Wisehart #2 There is no such thing as a Leica phone   By Vlad Savov, The Verge   You don't have to walk far into London's trendy Shoreditch district before seeing a giant billboard featuring Hollywood stars Henry Cavill and Scarlett Johansson taking a selfie with Huawei's P9 smartphone. Next to their impeccably beautiful faces sits the iconic red Leica dot, accompanied by the words "co-engineered with Leica." Now that's some star power, isn't it? More» Why This Matters: A quick review of some the many smartphone camera cons perpetuated by smartphone marketers. PS Beats by Dre is nothing special either. -Cynthia Wisehart #3 These gloves translate sign language for text or speech   By Anna Green, Mental Floss   Two undergraduate students at the University of Washington have created a pair of smart gloves that can translate American Sign Language (ASL) automatically into text or speech. They were recently awarded a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for their work. More» Why This Matters: This is super interesting for signage content creators, and conferencing and translation situations. Plus an inspiring student ingenuity story. - Cynthia Wisehart 4. AVI-SPL acquired (via TheWire@SVConline) 5. Is Apple stock a buy now? (Shawn Tully, Fortune) 6. Meyer sound collaborates to provide state-of-the art sound for transformational renovation of SFMOMA (via TheWire@SVConline) 7. Google's OnHub is the first WiFi router to support IFTTT (Alex Brokaw, The Verge) 8. World's first 3-D printed violin sounds pretty good (with music video) (Andrew Liszewski, Gizmodo) 9. 10 old cables you should keep around and 6 you should toss (CNET) 10. From the Wire@SVConline: DataPath's ActiveConnect long-range cables require no additional power For more, see the WHY THIS MATTERS archive. Thanks, Cynthia For daily AV industry headlines see #SVCWIRE archive AV Jobs beyerdynamic Inc. - Technical Sales Manager for the Systems Integration and Commercial Audio industry (United States) » Find Us Online Facebook Twitter LinkedIn RebelMouse Was this copy of Pro AV Today forwarded to you? Start your own subscription by clicking here. Pro AV Today Editorial Team SOUND & VIDEO CONTRACTOR CYNTHIA WISEHART, Editor Phone: (212) 378-0400 x526 | Send Email DIGITAL SIGNAGE DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email RENTAL AND STAGING SYSTEMS DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email

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