digital tv
RSS digital tvMake haste with the analogue-digital switch, urges EC
News The European Commission has called for EU members to speed their switchover to digital television, and therefore in the process free up spectrum, which can then be used for broadband services. For more, see... [30 Oct 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News It's inevitable that we, the digital media business, need to move to a mix of paid services," he said. International audiences already have access to BBC programmes via BBC Worldwide's TV channels and... [12 Oct 2009]
At the Forefront of Multi-Channel Banking
White Paper The Woolwich is the first U.K.financial institution to provide interactive mobile banking services via WAP technology and the only bank with true channel integration across branches, telephone, Internet, WAP and interactive... [09 Oct 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News Don't make my TV act like a PC," customers told Intel after its earlier forays into TV, said Eric Kim, general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, and Intel got the message. But it's... [28 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment The developers are constantly asked to stifle their creativity by marketing staff, and exist in an increasingly digital world where people are becoming less able to focus on the task at hand. Coupland's own website says... [08 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment The UK is making rapid progress and the sale of digital TV sets is progressing well. You can see an example of pixilation problems with a US digital TV service in this... [11 Aug 2009]
Google's Android coming to a set-top box near you
News This architecture is used in set-top boxes, digital TV sets, home media players, internet telephony systems and mobile internet devices, and is a rival to the Arm technology on which Android already runs. [06 Aug 2009]
Analysis and Realization of IPTV Service Quality
White Paper Digital Television (TV) service over Internet Protocol (IP) networks is becoming a crucial element in a network provider's portfolio. However, the limitations of the existing communication networks and... [31 Jul 2009]
Five - why we joined Project Canvas
News It is hoped Canvas - which was announced in December 2008 - will provide UK homes with access to IPTV via broadband enabled set-top boxes in much the same way as Freeview and Freesat currently do with digital... [30 Jul 2009]
Five joins BBC and ITV in Canvas picture
News Canvas - a BBC, BT and ITV Canvas joint venture announced in December 2008 - will provide UK homes with access to IPTV via a broadband enabled set-top box in much the same way as Freeview and Freesat currently do with... [30 Jul 2009]
Custom File Systems as Optimal Solutions for Huge Media Data Archives and Storages
White Paper IDC, a leading market research firm estimates that total amount of stored digital information is around 2.8 Exabytes (2.8 million Terabytes) with tenfold expected growth every five years! An amount of data, both current... [10 Jul 2009]
Cheat sheet: Project Canvas
Cheat Sheet Freeview brought digital TV to people who didn't want to go down the route of subscription TV - by signing up with Sky and Virgin Media for example - but wanted to move on from analogue... [23 Jun 2009]
BT Vision Builds Cutting-Edge Storage Solution to Deliver Video-on-Demand Over an IP Network, Gains More Than £7 Million in Benefits With HP StorageWorks
White Paper BT Vision, based in the United Kingdom, is a next-generation television service that delivers pay-per-view and subscription video-on-demand services, digital TV channels, communications, and interactive... [22 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.06.09
Round-Up The rather baldly named Digital Britain report has been talked up for months and promised to send Blighty heading down the information superhighway into a glowing high-tech future, laden with economic riches and... [19 Jun 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment The government's Digital Britain scheme focuses squarely on the consumer. During a half-hour question and answer session at the launch of the government's Digital Britain blueprint this week, the... [19 Jun 2009]
