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There are many black holes for the unwary tech CEO to fall into, but two of the oldest and blackest are video phones and pocket TV.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", is one of Arthur C. Clarke's memorable sayings and the remark fits a development from Europe's No.1 microelectronics institute, IMEC of Belgium.

This is switch-over week for America. On Friday June 12^th all analogue TV broadcast signals are to be switched off. The big event has already been postponed once. It was supposed to happen in February but the government got cold feet.

Interesting to see Intel executive vp Sean Maloney predict the demise of traditional TV. That’s exactly what Ben Elton does in his new novel Blind Faith.

The Sky vs Virgin battle, which surfaced last month with Sky withdrawing its news service and other programmes from Virgin's TV channels, is taking on an intriguing new technical direction.

Poor old plasma has had really lousy PR these last few years with the rumours that they need re-gassing, and that the colours degrade over time, gaining currency in every pub conversation about flat panel displays.

Robert Adler, inventor of the TV remote control, died last week at 93. His remote was based on ultrasonics; infra-red wasn't used in remotes until the 1980s.

Two groups of people are going to be the saviour of the market for TV-to-the-cellphone - commuting Asians and young people.

“Have you heard about the analogue switch-off?” a telephone caller from my cable TV suppler NTL asks me.

HD TV to come from the Internet next year, rather than the tradiitonal TV programming providers, is one of In-Stat's predictions for 2007. Why are incumbents so often outflanked by nimble upstarts?