WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26[EDITOR'S NOTE: Audio descriptions for tonight's episodes of The Masked Singer and LEGO Masters are available on the SAP Audio Channel.]--The Masked Singer - (8:00-9:02 PM ET/PT) CC-AD-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1IT'S MUPPETS NIGHTON AN ALL-NEW THE MASKED SINGER WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, ON FOX Miss Piggy Serves as a Guest Panelist, With Special Appearances and Performances by Kermit The Frog, Animal, Fozzie Bear and More! The Muppets take The Masked Singer! Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal and more Muppet favorites make a special appearance on The Masked Singer stage! The Season Eight contestants boast a combined 32 Grammy Nominations, 16 Emmy Wins, 8 Gold Albums, 4 Golden Globe Nominations, 42 Books, 10 Teen Choice Awards, and 5 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Nick Cannon hosts, along with celebrity panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke and special guest panelist Miss Piggy. Two new characters enter the competition and two will be unmasked in the all-new "Muppets Night" episode of The Masked Singer airing Wednesday, Oct. 26 (8:00-9:02 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (MS-805) (TV-PG L) Host: Nick Cannon Panelists: Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke Guest Panelist: Miss Piggy Guest Appearances: Kermit the Frog, Animal, Fozzie Bear Share
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The shares have since risen about 31% to 700p Bid, 720p Offer, which is only really in line with the general market re-rating of smaller caps, as you can see from the chart below, where (as usual) the beige line is the FTSE Small Caps Index (excl. Inv. Trusts). In fact Portmeirion has lagged since Sept 2013, and would have risen to 800p per share if it had kept up with the Index.
So we have a positive trading update today, indicating that profit before tax for the year ended 31 Dec 2013 will be in line with expectations, which is for 50.8p EPS. So at 720p Offer price, these shares are priced at a PER of 14.2 times 2013 earnings. Given the much more favourable economic outlook in its main markets (the UK, USA, and S.Korea), I think this is a reasonable price.
TriOviz announced at E3 that its technology is coming to the new 3DTVs, which should hopefully clear up our main concerns with the existing version: the green/pink paper glasses kill the colour and the 3D effect sometimes falls apart completely. However, in terms of the processing, performance analysis of Batman: Arkham Asylum in its Game of the Year guise bears out the low cost of the solution. First up, here's some Xbox 360 2D versus 3D comparisons from the game.
However, there is a possibility that the 360 will be unable to match the true 720p per eye introduced by HDMI 1.4 and supported on PS3. The move to a 1080p framebuffer to accommodate full resolution seems like a step too far, and questions remain about whether the 1080p side-by-side format is actually fully supported in the HDMI 1.4 spec. The headline specs say it isn't (it's 1080i only), but the supported display timings say it is, and the available 3D displays do work with it.
However, assuming that it remains unutilised on 360, PS3's exact standards compliant 720p HDMI 1.4 implementation gives the Sony platform the advantage in terms of resolution, but how much of an advantage remains to be seen - the performance limitations of current gen architecture have seen that virtually all of the PS3 3D titles released to date (Super Stardust HD being the exception) have performance issues of some description, be they resolution or frame-rate based in nature.
As a final point on Portmeirion, they indicate that net cash has dropped to 6m, or about 56p per share, but that was after spending 3.9m to buy the long leasehold to their Head Office in Stoke-on-trent, and thereby benefit from the elimination of rent payments. The outlook statement is too vague to be worth mentioning, but I shall certainly be expecting another year of steady growth, and nice dividends. Check out the historic performance here, and bear in mind this was achieved in a period of at best lacklustre economic times. So there should be good upside as Western economies recover.
Last, but not least we have the Oppo R1C, which was the first one to make an appearance today. The smartphone bears mid-lever hardware and is equipped with a Snaprdagon 615, along with 2GB of RAM and a 5-inch 720p display. From what we have seen so far the device definitely looks slick with a shiny back panel and a beautiful 6.85mm body.
Temasek bought its shares in July at 720p and, after a collapse in the price to 456p, is sitting on paper losses of more than 300m. A spokesman for Temasek declined to comment on speculation it could take a greater stake in Barclays. 2ff7e9595c
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