This week, Nvidia and MotionDSP launched an interesting Cuda-based application called vReveal. This product finds all the video on your PC, and uses Nvidia’s pre-OpenCL Cuda platform to dramatically improve it. Cisco also bought the Flip video camera company this month for $590 million, making me wonder what the second shoe to drop would be (hint: think networked). Coincidently, I’ve had several folks argue compellingly this week that still cameras will be dead in a few years as a result of inexpensive HD cameras, and tools like vReveal that turn a movie camera into a better solution for still shots. Yes, this initially sounded nuts to me too, but I get it now.
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Mobile TV Coming to 22 U.S. Cities
The Open Mobile Video Colation (OMVC) has announced that some 63 broadcast stations in 22 U.S. cities have committed to launching mobile television broadcasts during 2009. The stations cover about 35 percent of U.S. television households, and includes NBC, ABC< CBS< FOx, Ion, CW, and MyNetworkTV affiliates, along with nin PBS stations are are in discussions to join the launch.
HD Radio Welcomes 1,000th Station
Consumer electronics buzz might center around high-definition video, but HD Radio is beginning to get traction as well, with iBiquity Digital Corporation, developers—and licensors—of HD Radio technology, recently welcomed their 1,000th broadcast station, WIYY FM 97.9 in Baltimore, Maryland. During 2006, the number of broadcasting HD Radio stations has almost doubled, and the company hopes to see 1,200 stations online by the end of 2006.
HD Radio transmits near CD-quality audio and data streams alongside traditional AM and FM signals; HD Radio multicasting enables programmers to expand their content offerings with additional or more specialized formats. Broadcast HD Radio programming is free (and, like broadcast radio, ad-supported) but users need to acquire an HD Radio receiver to tune into broadcasts.
CBS, NBC To Offer $0.99 Shows On Demand
In separate announcements made today, both the NBC and CBS broadcast networks announced they will being offering viewers the opportunity to pay $0.99 per episode to watch selected primetime broadcast and cable programming within hours of the program’s first broadcast.
NBC’s deal is with satellite operator DirecTV, while CBS will be working with cable provider Comcast. The networks’ sudden actions to modify the traditional broadcast television business model is largely seen as a response to ABC/Disney’s recent deal with Apple Computer to make episodes of some of its popular shows available ad-free via the iTunes Music Store within a day of original broadcast. However, digital versions of ABC shows like Lost and Desperate Housewives sell for $1.99 apiece via iTunes; NBC and CBS plan to offer on-demand episodes for $0.99 apiece.
ADB Introduces 17′ MHP LCD TV
Advanced Digital Broadcast (www.adbglobal.com), a vendor of digital TV set-top boxes and software solutions for interactive television, announced today the introduction of the i-CAN170T, its first Integrated Digital TV (IDTV) based on the DVB-T MHP open standard.
Mass production of ADB’s i-CAN 170T is planned to start this October and its introduction will follow during the autumn in various retail outlets in Italy. It will also become available in other European countries which have adopted the MHP platform from the DVB.
HP, Philips Develop DRM for DVDs
The two companies have agreed to jointly develop technology that will allow users to record protected content from digital broadcast systems, under rules adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in its “broadcast flag” ruling.
The ruling allows programmers to attach a code, called a broadcast flag, to digital broadcasts, specifying whether a particular show can be copied and broadcast over the Internet.
Read more at PC World.
First mobile DTV demonstrated
This groundbreaking technical demonstration highlights a potential solution to the challenge TV broadcasters face today – they cannot reach out to customers who are on the move. It will illustrate, using an over-the-air broadcast from a Sinclair Broadcast Group TV station to a van driving the streets of Las Vegas, how the latest transmission technology together with the state-of-the-art audio and video compression of Windows Media 9 Series can offer new opportunities for broadcasters, enabling them to reach mobile viewers through digital television (DTV).
Using transmission technology developed by LINX Electronics, broadcasting superior mobile DTV is now possible through 6MHz channels using single-carrier VSB (Vestigial SideBand). Operating in a half-rate mode for rugged transmission, the LINX Mobile transmission system provides an available payload of 9 Mbps. (LINX Mobile is akin to the ATSC 8VSB technology used in DTV in the United States today.)
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