Seventeen per cent of Americans believe that viewing 3DTV poses health risks to the eyes, and a further 55 per cent “aren’t sure,” a survey of two thousand US consumers from Strategy Analytics’ Digital Consumer Practice reveals. The findings underline a critical task ahead for both vendors and service providers, according to the firm. “We’ve long believed that 3DTV faced [...]
STMicroelectronics announced a new TV System-on-Chip (SoC) IC offering 3DTV support and advanced 120Hz MEMC (motion estimation, motion compensation). Designed for next–generation 1080p full-high-definition (FHD) integrated Digital TVs (iDTVs), ST’s new FLI7525 SoC enables a new class of mid-range, 3DTV-enabled, 120Hz Internet TVs. The FLI7525 is the flagship product in ST’s new Freeman Premier series of SoCs and is the [...]
The Set Top Box has been key to all new television developments in the last 20 years but has it had its day? Will functionality migrate to the Cloud leaving the STB as a ‘dumb’ thin client, or does a new future as the home gateway and hub of the smart home await?
Visionip.tv is a facilities house designed for where broadcast meets the web. John Mills, Managing Director, talks about how the company can bring niche broadcasters to the market, and a wide audience, in double quick time.
A lively and engaging debate on the current state of the Home Network, its near and medium term development and its importance to achieving monetiseable convergence and content everywhere. Participants from Home Grid Forum, BT Broadband, Huawei and Access Company.
On demand is now a fixture for any multichannel provider and it is more popular than ever, but is it any closer to making to money? Video on Demand has been around almost as long as pay-television and many millions have been invested in its delivery technology and its marketing. Today, widespread broadband access and the broadcaster’s enthusiasm to exploit [...]
Macrovision was the low profile company whose software protected most of the world’s DVDs from illicit copying. Today it has become Rovi Corporation and, while remaining a dominant force in packaged media protection, it has set its sights on becoming the ultimate guide provider for the multi-channel, multi-platform, ‘my media’, world. The company’s chief evangelist Richard Bullwinkle came to London [...]
The battle against unauthorised consumption of copyright material ebbs and flows. Some of the worst offenders in terms of file sharing sites have been closed and others declare they are ‘going straight.’ But, meanwhile, a Member of the European Parliament is elected in the name of a Swedish pirate site, demonstrating the ambivalence of many consumers to copyright breech. Content [...]
A survey of the STB market today, what the future holds for the STB and where are the hot markets? Participants from Analog Devices, Conax, NXP Semiconductors, , Verimatrix Pirelli
