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There’s THX certification for TVs, ensuring potential buyers that they’ll get solid home-theater audio, so why shouldn’t there be an equivalent for displays? Technicolor, along with software company Portrait Displays, is stepping up to the plate with a new standard for guaranteeing hue quality across panels. The Technicolor Color Certified Program will award screens that meet its requirements with a seal — or logo, as it were — of approval. What are the qualifications, you ask? Technicolor’s spec is based on software from Portrait Displays, which works with OEMs to fine-tune screens for color accuracy. For the end user, the result should be consistent tones across all certified devices either automatically or when the Technicolor color setting is enabled for specific programs or apps. Head past the break for our eyes-on impressions.

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The idea of the “internet of things” is fine and well, but when was the last time your smartphone had a chat with the fridge? Technicolor is aiming to solve those communication breakdowns with Qeo, a software system to bridge connected devices of all types and brands. While you may be thinking, “Technicolor? That company at the end of the movie credits?” it turns out that the post-production outfit also does items like set-top boxes and DSLR routers through its acquisition of Thomson. Qeo will allow those types of devices, along with smartphones, computers, tablets and even “dumb” systems like intercoms or appliances to all communicate, regardless of the OS or protocol used by each. That’ll create scenarios where your doorbell can notify your smartphone that someone’s waiting to be let in, or allow you to switch a video call from your Android tablet to a Qeo-enabled TV screen, according to Technicolor — providing the right manufacturers, software developers or network operators are using the protocol, of course. Fortunately, the company claims that it’s already signed up a bevy of companies in all those categories, meaning a device-agnostic connected home may be soon within your grasp. Check the PR after the break to see all the details in glorious, er, Technicolor.

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