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Madonna Webcast shows Internet is not TV
News Some viewers accessing the broadcast at slower speeds said the quality was acceptable. Numerous complaints of slow, jerky and cut-off connections dampened what had been billed as one of the biggest live broadcast events ever over the Internet.
[November 29, 2000, 9:54]
Maxell to launch holographic storage next year
News With a single holographic disk able to store 1.6 million high-resolution colour photos or over 240 hours of TV broadcast, holographic storage is starting to draw the attention of many in the IT industry.
[November 25, 2005, 13:05]
A Year Ago: Apple unveils iBook...the "iMac to go"
News The company also used the forum to introduce Airport, a wireless LAN, with a throughput rate of 11 Mbps; QuickTime TV, a new Internet-based broadcast network; tout Mac OS 9.0, now slated to ship in October for $99.
[July 21, 2000, 7:01]
2000 Roundup: Big Brother craze hits Britain
News The Big Brother Web site went live on Friday 14 July at www.channel4.com/bigbrother/, when ten brave contestants were broadcast walking the "bridge of shame" into a house where they were to spend the next 70 days in complete isolation.
[December 24, 2000, 6:16]
Putting a price on Net music
News There are services, like Launch.com and MTVi, which allow listeners a little more control in choosing which artists they want to hear (and when), and even traditional radio stations that have decided to broadcast simultaneously online.
[July 30, 2001, 10:56]
Ethernet Over SpaceWire - Hardware Issues
White Papers Ethernet is based on the legacy of a bus and so relies on broadcast with packets visible to all nodes, whereas SpaceWire is entirely point-to-point and allows multiple connections for redundancy - which raises issues for broadcast.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Movies hit the very small screen
News Other sites offering full-length movies, as opposed to just clips, include Ifilm, and broadcast.com, which recently licensed the feature-length movies of Trimark Holdings for online distribution. On sites such as broadcast.com, which offer both...
[March 5, 1999, 9:46]
Lack of broadband may penalise football on the Net
News Under the new rules, football clubs own the rights to video coverage of their matches, meaning that the exclusive broadcast period granted to TV companies will expire almost immediately in some cases.
[August 24, 2001, 9:00]
Silverlight 3 makes an early debut
News NBC has said it will use Silverlight to broadcast the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver. The technology will allow the Games to be broadcast in 720p HD quality as well as provide a TiVo-like ability to pause and rewind a live stream.
[July 10, 2009, 11:07]
Yahoo! sued over private user data
News Filed by Dallas-based Universal Image Inc.the suit stems from a contract signed between Universal, which operates online as Chalkboardtalk.com, and Broadcast.com. The deal, signed in November 1998, called for Universal to provide video content to...
[December 30, 1999, 11:19]
Nuggets: Give your PC its turn in the limelight
News Diva records a running stream of television broadcast direct to a PC's hard drive, creating a buffer of up to 90 minutes. This means that you can pause a live broadcast or rewind to an earlier point and then pick up again where you left off.
[January 26, 2000, 15:03]
Streamerp2p
Downloads High bandwidth and long-stay listeners tend to move closer to the broadcast source. This all means you don't need an internet connection with a lot of bandwidth to broadcast to a huge number of listeners.
[December 2, 2008, 5:17]
IT Priorities Conference: CNBC Europe streams video to GPRS
News Eric White, marketing and communications director for Phones International, said the video signal usually runs between 11 and 17 seconds after the ordinary television broadcast feed. Steven Flaherty is a partner in Keitai Culture, which provides...
[August 23, 2004, 16:40]
Brightcove aims to create video marketplace
News Several advertisers have already lined up to place ads in the videos that web publishers will broadcast using Brightcove's tools. The services are free, but the company keeps 50 percent of the ad revenue generated via videos broadcast through its...
[October 30, 2006, 15:57]
Sydney 2000: The day they banned the Net down under
News The only site allowed to broadcast coverage of the games is NBCOlympics.com, the official American TV broadcast partner for the Olympics. Video streaming of Olympic events is forbidden on the Internet this year.
[September 12, 2000, 15:11]
The IOC gives the Web a sporting chance
News So they can't broadcast any action from the Games -- but that would be a miracle at this stage. In a sector dominated by global players -- TV heavyweights such as the BBC, NBC and News Corp, as well as newspapers and hundreds of sports magazines...
[February 4, 2002, 10:11]
SGI's midrange Unix server gets an update
News SGI is aiming the system at broadcast and military customers who need a fair amount of computing power in a small space, such as a mobile broadcast or operations centre. SGI announced on Tuesday its Origin 350 Unix server, a descendant of the two...
[April 16, 2003, 10:47]
Intel's brave new home Pt II
News The game creates a 3D model of an actual game based on a TV broadcast. IAL is also tackling enhanced video broadcast technologies, which combine video and data to create interactive television. "People will buy [broadband] for the speed," Ryan said.
[July 26, 2000, 11:55]
Industry bigwigs near interactive TV deal
News In addition, Intel's Intercast technology for sending interactive data over both digital and analog broadcast networks is a good candidate for the foundation of the future specification. The resulting set-top situation would be like needing a...
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
Industry bigwigs near interactive TV deal
News In addition, Intel's Intercast technology for sending interactive data over both digital and analog broadcast networks is a good candidate for the foundation of the future specification. The resulting set-top situation would be like needing a...
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
