Tag archive: broadcast

Hulu introduced a beta of its Hulu Plus service in June and for $9.99 per month users could join. The idea behind it was to bring more revenue in to the site and give Plus subscribers much greater access to back episodes, past seasons, and other exclusive content. According to a report by AllThingsD, the company may have overestimated what customers are willing to pay. So it's going to try again at $4.95. Movie-oriented competitor Netflix… Read More

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… Read More

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. “Broadcasters should be recognized for seizing an… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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

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… Read More