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RSS analoguePeter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Analogue or digital?
Comment As a young student I had the good fortune to study both analogue and digital computing at a time when analogue was the predominant mode for most large scientific investigations. As a scientist and engineer I've always struggled with the definition... [12 Feb 2004]
Gordon Brown dubbed "analogue Chancellor"
News Gordon Brown has been dubbed the "analogue Chancellor" for failing to save the Home Computing Initiative (HCI). Shadow paymaster general Mark Francois said in a statement: "This scheme was endorsed by the DTI, the CBI and the TUC and this... [05 May 2006]
Interference to Analogue TV Reception Due to Building Developments
White Paper Since early spring 2001, BBC Reception Advice has received a number of complaints from residents to the north of Docklands on the Isle of Dogs, east London about the deteriorating quality of their analogue TV reception. [24 Feb 2004]
A Classical Analogue of Entanglement
White Paper We show that quantum entanglement has a very close classical analogue, namely secret classical correlations. The fundamental analogy stems from the behavior of quantum entanglement under local operations and classical communication and the behavior... [10 Apr 2008]
IPTV Streaming Provides the Solution to the Demise of Analogue TV Distribution Systems
White Paper It provides better quality than conventional analogue distribution and offers the advantages of new services and the ability to reach a wider audience. IPTV is digital - so it is immune from problems of noise, distortion and signal degradation that... [27 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: The analogue and digital of start-ups
Comment It's interesting that so many fast-growing start-ups in the UK today classified as tech plays actually take the pain out of something far more analogue - for example the paperwork that IT contractors must now negotiate, as in the case of this year... [04 Dec 2006]
Sky dumps analogue 18 months early as digital takes off
News BSkyB is to cease transmitting analogue satellite TV signals more than one and a half years sooner than previously expected. On June 30, BSkyB's digital subscribers numbered 3.65m, compared to 4.5m using analogue. [25 Jul 2000]
A Combined Analogue+Digital Software Defined Radio Receiver Front-End for Bluetooth and HiperLAN/2
White Paper The design presented in this paper includes both the analogue and the digital front-end. A CMOS integrated analogue downconverter containing a low-noise amplifier, downconversion mixers and filters performs all analogue processing required between... [29 Nov 2005]
Advances in Objective Quality Assessment of Speech Over Analogue and Packet-based Networks
White Paper Previous models are unreliable when the system includes analogue interfaces or variable bulk delay. This paper gives an overview of objective methods for assessing the audio quality of non-linear systems including lossy coding. [03 Jul 2008]
Downloads sound the end of cassettes
News Following the demise of the floppy disk, it looks like analogue tape is about to meet a similar fate: Currys has announced it will no longer be stocking cassettes. Three years later, however, its star began to fade with the launch of the CD and in... [08 May 2007]
EC wants TV spectrum for WiMax
News UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased out, the European commissioner for information society and media has proposed. Noting that plans were already underway across Europe to open up the... [14 Jun 2007]
Link between mobiles and tumours found
News A Swedish research institute has released a report that links the use of analogue mobile handsets and a benign tumour - adding fodder to the long-running debate over mobile phones and brain cancer. Since digital handsets have not been in widespread... [15 Oct 2004]
The Growth of Digital Television
White Paper Digital television is to conven-tional analogue TV what CD is to the record. Digital TV provides much more robust and better quality pictures than analogue TV and also offers much greater opportunities for interactive applications. [14 Aug 2003]
Digital TV boom-time coming to Europe
News Europe is set for a digital television explosion with many countries well on course to switch off their analogue signals within the next six years. Accenture's Ray Dogra believes the introduction of television over the internet (IPTV) is... [20 Mar 2006]
US toys with emergency warning system update
News In an age of omnipresent mobile phone, internet and BlackBerry users, why does government rely primarily on analogue television and radio to beam its national emergency alerts? The existing system, first deployed by President Harry Truman in 1951... [21 Jul 2006]
