Investments in Equity Securities

6 Months Ended

Jun. 29, 2018

Investments, All Other Investments [Abstract]

Investments in Equity Securities

INVESTMENTS IN EQUITY SECURITIES

Vislink

In 2014, the Company acquired a 3.3% interest in Vislink plc (“Vislink”), a U.K. public company listed on the AIM exchange, for $3.3 million. On February 3, 2017, Vislink completed the disposal of its hardware division and changed its name to Pebble Beach Systems (“PBS”). The Company does not have significant influence over PBS’s operational and financial policies. The carrying value of the investment in PBS was fully written off as of December 31, 2017.

Beginning the first quarter of fiscal 2018, the Company adopted ASU No. 2016-01, Financial Instruments (Topic 825): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, which requires equity investments to be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income. As a result of adopting this new standard, the Company started measuring the investment in PBS at fair value based on its quoted stock price on the AIM exchange. The Company recorded a gain on change in fair value of the investment in PBS to Other income (expense), net of $0.2 million and $0.2 million during both the three and six months ended June 29, 2018.

Unconsolidated Variable Interest Entities (“VIE”)

EDC

In 2014, the Company acquired an 18.4% interest in Encoding.com, Inc. (“EDC”), a privately held video transcoding service company headquartered in San Francisco, California, for $3.5 million by purchasing EDC’s Series B preferred stock. EDC is considered a VIE but the Company determined that it is not the primary beneficiary of EDC. As a result, EDC is measured at its cost minus impairment, if any. The Company determined that there were no indicators at June 29, 2018 that the EDC investment was impaired.