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General Interest

HDTV Almanac - 3DTV: It Starts with Sports

By Alfred Poor • Mar 19, 1:00pm

With some consumers willing to spend hundreds of dollars per seat to attend some sporting events, it should come as little surprise that live 3DTV programming is going to begin with sports coverage. The press is still writing pages about the first 3D-capable sets from Samsung, Sony, and Panasonic — many of which have not [...]

General Interest

HDTV Almanac - Dell Sues for LCD Price Fixing

By Alfred Poor • Mar 17, 1:00pm

It has been widely reported that Dell sued five LCD panel manufacturers for price fixing last week. The companies named in the suit are Sharp, Toshiba, Hitachi, Epson, and HannStar.
Sharp and Hitachi have already made plea agreements with the U.S. Justice Department for price fixing. In 2008, Sharp agreed to pay $120 million in fines, [...]

General Interest

HDTV Almanac - Universal 3D Glasses

By Alfred Poor • Mar 16, 7:21pm

One of the complaints about 3DTV that is often repeated in the press is that “there are no standards“. I may be the only one who does not see that as a major obstacle. After all, there are a lot of different digital image file formats out there, yet programs like Microsoft Word or most [...]

General Interest

HDTV Almanac - Free HD Video Online

By Alfred Poor • Mar 16, 1:00pm

WARNING: You can waste a lot of time if you read this.
I stumbled across a great project call “FedFlix” in which volunteers are taking digitized video and film content from the National Archives and making them available on the Internet. One of the repositories for this content is the Internet Archive, which includes sections for [...]

General Interest • Cable & Satellite

HDTV Almanac - Broadband: the New Gold

By Alfred Poor • Mar 15, 1:00pm

While we’re distracted by the tussles over the radio spectrum for mobile services and broadcast television and cell phones and a zillion other applications, keep your eye on the prize. Broadband means big data pipes delivered right to your door (or basement or apartment to be more precise). Phone companies like Verizon and AT&T got [...]