HD electronics maker VizionWare short circuits
VizionWare Inc., a producer of cables and adapters, has shuttered — and fast. The announcement went out today and the company’s website has already disappeared. Attributed to disappointing sales in Blu-ray connectors, its close leaves investors who contributed $21 million since its 2002 founding out in the cold, including Novus Ventures (with a 27 percent stake), Access Venture Partners, DFJ Mercury Venture Partners, Individuals’ Venture Fund and InterWest Partners.
The Austin, Tex.-based company started to unravel… Continue Reading
Entropic’s chips to cut the cost of multiple satellite TV set-top installations
It’s painful to get satellite TV service installed at your home because technicians have to spend a lot of time wiring multiple set-top boxes to a single dish antenna.
Entropic Communications has a solution that eliminates that problem. And today, the San Diego, Calif. company is announcing that DirecTV is adopting its chips.
The company’s chip is called a “channel stack switch” and it will be built into a new DirecTV satellite dish. Earlier this year, DirecTV… Continue Reading