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June 30, 2006
BRAZIL: Brazil adopts Japanese digital TV
Brazil has selected a high-definition digital television system based on a Japanese standard for its more than 120 million television viewers, instead of the standards used in Europe and the United States. ...
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Posted by Greg at 05:30 PM
When Will I See KMGH On
Denver Channel - Denver's 7 was the first station in town to broadcast in HDTV. We are currently broadcasting in HDTV on Channel 17, but the reception is limited to those whose antennas are within a line-of-sight of our antenna -- which currently sits on top of ...
Posted by Gary at 05:05 PM
JVC's LT-37X987 37-inch LCD
JVC recently announced the launch of its 37-inch LT-37X987 and 32-inch LT-32X987 high definition flat panel LCD televisions. The two new sets employ JVC's new Clear Motion Drive, which produces images at 120 frames per second (120Hz). ...
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Posted by Lorren at 01:42 PM
Swanni's Rants & Raves, Volume
TVPredictions.com - Why doesn't Philips see the 'light'?; and why can't Comcast's HDTV viewers see the entire Lawrence of Arabia ? By Phillip Swann Washington D.C. (November 1, 2005) -- Every day, I get e-mails from readers asking me to write columns about their ...
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Posted by Michael at 01:20 PM
California Monkey
I had planned on bringing you the details of the new Mitsubishi line tonight but this story (see below) broke today and it is important enough to preempt the product discussions. I am working on an expanded version of this press release which will be posted on our site tomorrow. The reason that this story is important is not because they consumer electronics industry cannot meet the demands, but the trade offs for doing so can backfire in several ways. First, the people needing these final transition boxes may be unhappy with the performance of lower power schemes and secondly the clock it ticking. It is hard to redesign and bring to market in time to accommodate the February 17, 2009 deadline for bringing an end to analog broadcasting. So, tomorrow, all things willing, I will bring you both my comments and research done on this story and then a discussion of the products from Mitsubishi. _Dale Cripps
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Posted by Stephen at 12:47 PM
Digital Connectivity - A
The DVI (Digital Visual Interface) 1.0 specification was introduced in April 1999 by the Digital Display Working Group integrated by Silicon Image, Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and NEC for the purpose of creating an digital connection interface between a PC and a display device. It is a connection with enough bandwidth for uncompressed HD signals. IEEE1394 is a digital interface conceived by Apple Computer in 1986, and it was called "Fire Wire" for its fast speed of operation. In 1995, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) adopted the serial bus as its standard 1394. Sony trademarked their name iLink for their implementation of the 1394 bus as a 4-pin connector. On December 9, 2002, the seven founders of HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) announced the 1.0 specification of this connectivity standard, the enhanced, more robust form of DVI. The seven founders are Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson, and Toshiba.
Posted by Mel at 12:05 PM
Price Coming Down For Huge, Really Vivid
A home-theater projector is one degree of separation from an actual movie theater. Once you've seen a big picture projected on a big screen in your home, it's tough going back to the everyday high-definition world of 42-inch plasmas and 37-inch LCD televisions. ...
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Posted by Guido at 11:34 AM
Ed's view - The Interactive "Cable Ready"
An interview with Brian Smith on the status of the Cable/CE negotiations to establish a fully open interactive digital Cable Ready standard Brian Smith is a both good friend and a former business colleague of mine at RCA/Thomson. Brian presently is VP of Technology Policy and Standards for Philips N.A. and, of special significance to us, is the Chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Video Division Board of Directors. The CEA Video Board addresses many CE common issues, chief among them being that of representing the CE industry in the ongoing "Interactive Cable Ready" standard negotiations. The objective of this standard is to ultimately replace the unidirectional CableCARD cable interface with a system that downloads a plethora of interactive services for digital Cable subscribers. But developing this standard, based on Cable's OCAP (Open Cable Applications Protocol) system, is proving to be one of the most daunting tasks, both technically and commercially, to have been tackled by both industries. Brian took time from his busy schedule to give us a comprehensive update relative to several salient aspects of the negotiations: ED: Generally, what is the present state of the negotiations? BKS: Slow going. There are fundamental business issues on each side which conflict with each other and
From Ed's view - The Interactive "Cable Ready"
Posted by Michael at 11:13 AM
