By Rodolfo La Maestra • Dec 8, 11:15pmIt is not a nightmare.
You have read it correctly.
According to recent reports, the FCC's broadband plan mandated by Congress is due next February and although the consideration of freeing spectrum for commercial use is not final, the FCC is requesting information from the industry to evaluate the current and future utilization of broadcast airwaves.
The idea is...
By Rodolfo La Maestra • Dec 8, 5:22pmThis event by the Consumers Electronics Association was held on November 10 in New York City to show to the press a preview of the new products and planned events that will take place at the 2010 International CES in Las Vegas on January 7- 10, 2010.
Steve Koenig, CEA’s Director of Industry Analysis, and Shawn DuBravac, CFA, CEA’s Chief Economist and Director of Research disclosed their analysis of the holiday outlook for consumer electronics sales and technology trends for CES 2010, introduced some new hot products, and announced the best of Innovation Honorees, mentioned in a link below.
Several exhibitors with tabletop displays introduced new products in advance of their official debuts at the actual CES in January.
The expectation for the holidays is...
By Rodolfo La Maestra • Nov 25, 5:35pmSeveral formats were introduced over the past few years to distribute pre-recorded HD content.
Some of those are already discontinued; others were introduced at trade shows in the US (such as the Consumer Electronics Show, CES) but were implemented only overseas.
D-VHS
Pre-recorded HD content was available in the form of digital D-VHS videotapes before Blu-ray was established.
The tapes were...
By Rodolfo La Maestra • Nov 24, 5:31pmHigh quality HDTV can be broadcasted using the 6 MHz channel-slot of one analog NTSC channel, but with over 9 times its resolution quality.
The NTSC image is made of 480ix450 viewable picture elements per video frame composed of two interlaced fields and delivered at a rate of 60 fields (30 frames) per second.
Most HD broadcast compressed with MPEG-2 is transmitted as interlaced 1080i with 2 million+ pixels per video frame (1080x1920 pixels), each frame is composed of two interlaced 540-line fields delivered at the rate of 60 fields per second (30 frames).
Some HD broadcasts use...
By Rodolfo La Maestra • Nov 23, 5:27pmThis series of three articles analyzes the current and future market for HD, the methods of distribution and the capabilities of the digital technology to distribute HD content to meet consumer expectations.
This technology must also support other quantity oriented businesses and services that can potentially degrade the original HD vision and affect those that invested in HDTV equipment under the reasonable expectation of viewing uncompromised HD quality, not just digital.
This is a dilemma of quantity vs.
quality when DTV permits the implementation of both, sharing the same bandwidth.
HD content is defined in this article as...
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