Posts Tagged ‘television’

The Choice of a TV: Simplified

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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3D HDTV glasses set to rock the marketplace

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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While the talk at CES 2010 is about 3D HDTV television equipment and how this is going to change the way that consumers view satellite and cable TV in the future, the real battle for 3D HDTV technology is taking place elsewhere.
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TV industry turns blind eye to non-3D viewers

Friday, January 15th, 2010
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When it comes to 3D television, I don't see it. Literally. The technology that's supposed to convince me that a 3D image exists when I look at a 2D screen doesn't work for me. Nor does it work for a small but significant percentage of the population--4 percent to 10 percent, depending on which expert you ask.
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DIRECTV Launches Satellite, Upgrades HD and Movie Selections

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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DIRECTV, a television service provider, has successfully launched its DIRECTV 12 satellite, a boeing 702 replica. The system was carried on the Proton Breeze M satellite launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The ground control position in Hartebeesthoek, South Africa, confirmed the effective functioning of the satellite.
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Broadcasters woes may spell end to OTA tevevision.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The high definition transition has not exactly been a boon for free OTA commercial television. A pesky recession and a trend line that diverts advertising dollars away from OTA and toward hardwired subscription based delivery methods has resulted in a 20% loss of net overall revenue.

Meanwhile greedy cell phone companies are casting their eyes on the OTA television spectrum that has already been downsized. So they can sell ever more iphone like devices that are simply bandwidth hogs.

And I see it likely that cell phone companies will take two approaches to get more than their fair share of the wireless spectrum. (1) They will wine and dine our legislators seeking to get them to rob from OTA Paul and give it to the cell phone Peter.
(2) They may just buy up, at bargain basement prices, the OTA
broadcasters at the local level, And once they then own that local spectrum they can use it for their own purposes. Meanwhile the
national networks will starve as they lose their affilates.

Meanwhile OTA broadcasters have not been exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. Even as they gained the ability to use multicasts that double and triple their potential commercial air time, they have not only failed to attract viewers by airing cheap quality programming, they have also failed to reduce per minute advertising prices to attract more net local advertising. So should we subsidize mentally retarded dinosaurs because they think the world owes them a living?

IMHO, unless we do something, we the OTA air viewer will be the big losers if we don't band together and use our political clout. The other big loser will be small local advertiser who can no longer target their catchment areas. After all would you even consider going to Joe's Diner if you see his ad from hundreds or thousands of miles away?

DirecTV to offer 3D broadcasting by early 2010?

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
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According to some whispers on the street heard by HDGURU, DirecTV is on the precipice of offering 3D HDTV television channels service as early as March 2010. If this report is true, then chances are DirecTV will have an announcement at CES 2010 in early January.
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iSkysoft launched its new version of Video Converter for Mac? v.1.9.5.5

Monday, December 28th, 2009
iSkysoft has released its new version of Video Converter for Mac -- v.1.9.5.5 -- recently. Compared to its old version and other congener products, there are several improvements which deserves us to try a little bit.
For the ?Deinterlace? function (the process of converting interlaced video, such as common analog television signals or 1080i format HDTV signals, into a non-interlaced form), not just a simple Deinterlace check box provided as general, but four specific options are added, including ?Repeat odd field?, ?Repeat even field?, ?Odd interpolate?, and ?Even interpolate?. Higher image quality!
For the fanciers of Music or persons fastidious about audio effect, the new added 5.1 Channels Surround Sound support function can not be more fabulous. It supports for 5.1 Channels Surround Sound output in PS3 output formats and fixes the 5.1 Channels Surround Sound Output problem in MP4 format. Better timbre enjoyment? Not your dream any more!
In this new version, you can get the estimated output file size feature so that you can compare the output file sizes between different output formats and choose the most proper one to convert. Time-saving also! As to time-saving, the conversion speed is improved as well.
Considering the supported formats, three HD output formats are added, they are TS, MPG, and TRP. More options!
Then the last one is that you can pause the video being previewed by pressing the spacebar. More convenient!

Consulting the HD crystal ball about TV in 2010

Sunday, December 27th, 2009
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For many years, television sets were as unlikely to change as your most stubborn relative. They were boxes that, no matter the brand, worked the same, looked the same and cost the same.
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Loud commercials…….govt solution?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
It seems that finally someone has noticed that commercials can be too damn loud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8415214.stm

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The US House of Representatives has approved a bill which aims to limit the volume of television advertisements
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Under the rules, "excessively noisy or strident" advertisements would be banned, as would adverts which are noticeably louder - or have a "maximum loudness substantially higher" - than the programme they accompany.

Home Theatre 101; What you need to create the ultimate entertainment room

Monday, December 14th, 2009
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While some entertainment enthusiasts might disagree on what you need for the ultimate home theatre?such as those who prefer a projector over a flat-panel television, or vice-versa, for example?there's little debate the timing couldn't be better to makeover your media room.
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Netflix on Playstation 3 ? extended review

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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The PlayStation 3 presents itself as many things? a highly advanced gaming device, a top-notch (reference quality) Blu-ray player, and an Internet enabled pathway to a world of downloadable games, movies, television and BD-Live enabled content. Most everything I?ve tapped into thus far has either met or exceeded my expectations for the PS3 Slim; however, there?s always those items that aren?t so great (the PS3?s web-browser is terrible, with limited access to some of the most popular sites? yes, you can get your web-enabled email, but what about access to Hulu? No dice! Might as well be living behind a firewall in China).
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New TV service model to roll out in Bay area

Monday, November 16th, 2009
It looks like something I have long envisioned, television that will offer premium content, greatly undercut existing prices, and use OTA and other technologies as a delivery method to the consumer.

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-...834?source=rss