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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And perhaps someone can tell me why certain people are claiming that medium wave transmitters should be turned off in order to reuse the frequencies, when those frequencies are only useful for broadcasting.
[October 29, 1999, 19:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It'll be even better when the BBC starts broadcasting its EPG on a regular basis, rather than whenever some bloke at DAB Central has nothing else to do between games of Tetris: as it is, the only listings I get are for Capital Gold, Capital Disney...
[February 4, 2005, 16:35]
Government attacks EC's 'dangerous' online media plans
News The EC wants to extend them to cover online audio-visual content, including new media broadcasting and emerging technological platforms.The UK Government called the proposals "ill thought-through and ill-conceived" on Thursday, and said that the...
[June 29, 2006, 16:05]
Europe sets pace for next generation multimedia
News Although technically a European agreement, the accord of the Digital Video Broadcasting steering committee has wider international implications because significant American companies like IBM, Intel and Microsoft are signatories to the agreement...
[September 29, 1997, 15:37]
New tech changes the face of war reporting
News Enabling those efforts will be systems such as the IPT Suitcase, a briefcase-sized satellite broadcasting system developed by Swedish company Swe-Dish Satellite Systems. The system's main component is software that can turn digital video into...
[March 21, 2003, 9:19]
Broadband TV could spark tighter Web controls
News This could seriously undermine the watershed, which restricts TV networks from broadcasting content suited only for adults until after 9pm at night. The rapid growth of first multi-channel, then digital, then personal video recorders and soon...
[December 6, 2004, 11:15]
News Corp seeks investor in satellite operation
News News Corp is looking to combine Star TV, Foxtel in Australia, its 40 percent stake in British Sky Broadcasting (quote: BSY) and its 35 percent stake in Sky Latin America, the source said. This combination would provide consumers with a digital...
[March 1, 2000, 13:36]
Ridiculously high frequencies for Olympic HD
Blog It's nice to see broadcasting revive a little of one of its less-appreciated traditions - pushing the development of radio technology. Over at the Olympics, Tech-On reports that Japanese TV networks Fuji and NTT are collaborating on an experimental...
[August 12, 2008, 23:56]
Winning over the file sharers
News He's already cut a few deals with studios and now offers movies from Walt Disney and Turner Broadcasting. Record labels are giving Cdigix and others wholesale discounts, and that means legal digital music can be extraordinarily inexpensive - and...
[April 6, 2005, 14:15]
Microsoft invests in online TV firm Move Networks
News The DNC is broadcasting live coverage of the event via its website with Microsoft and Move technology. As part of Monday's deal, Move Networks said it will support Windows Server-based encoding, Microsoft video-compression technology (codecs), and...
[August 26, 2008, 8:14]
Streaming a Napster solution on campus
News The product gives users access to Launch.com's music and video content while offloading the network congestion to an infrastructure run by iBeam Broadcasting. The company has commerce partners who will sell albums and digital downloads to users, of...
[July 12, 2000, 13:58]
Sculley-backed startup offers new twist
News It's called ViralCasting Networks, and it mixes the concepts of viral marketing and real-time broadcasting. Others already in that space include Akamai Technologies, Sandpiper Networks and Digital Island.
[March 14, 2000, 12:52]
T-Mobile and Orange to pilot mobile TV
News This solution would be ideal for broadcasting live, large sporting events such as the 2012 Olympic Games to high population densities. On Tuesday, the operators said those participating in the new trial would be able to receive up to 24 high...
[February 12, 2008, 17:26]
Femtocells gather steam after interoperability pact
News Mobile TV is an area close to Qualcomm's heart: its big-in-the-US MediaFLO data-broadcasting technology is a rival to current European favourite DVB-H. Writing on his blog, Disruptive Analysis analyst Dean Bubley speculated: "I wonder what you...
[May 22, 2008, 8:52]
Nuggets: Digital radio that won't break the bank
News It has an illuminated dot-matrix display to show things like frequencies and signal strength, and there's a memory preset facility that lets you store up to 49 DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), 29 FM channels and 19 AM channels.
[October 12, 1999, 15:50]
Windows XP Media Center Edition review
Reviews In Europe, the Program Guide info will be supplied by Broadcasting Dataservices. Technically, the OS augmentations include just a set of application controls and interface elements built on the core of Windows XP Professional, with simpler...
[August 19, 2003, 13:43]
Modular Technology DAB digital radio review
Reviews It’s like a video recorder for radio, but a thousand times easier to use. After installing the software and enduring two restarts, it’s a question of plugging in the antenna -- a small centre-loaded whip with a couple of metres of co-ax -- and...
[August 21, 2002, 8:11]
BT applies for broadcasting licence
News Speaking at the Streaming Media conference in London last week, Microsoft's business development manager for digital media Eric Huggers, said streaming media on a large scale is only really viable over the last mile of a network.
[November 2, 2001, 11:02]
D-Link DCS-1000W review
Reviews At the back of the camera is a digital interface, also browser or IPView-controllable, through which you can add third-party devices. You can add up to 64 users to allow others access to the streaming video.
[August 19, 2002, 11:47]
