Intel is reported to be developing its own set top box for the US market which it will use to offer a pay-IPTV service to viewers.
The company is said to be talking to content providers and intends to offer the service by the end of the year.
Intel…
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.
Now Qualcomm has admitted that its attempt to set up a mobile TV service, delivering TV content to cellphones, has been a flop, and…
“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.
At a multi-camera covered sporting event, IMEC can position a virtual camera anywhere on the sporting…
This is switch-over week for America. On Friday June 12th 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.
Governments around the world will be watching to…
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.
Maloney told the Telegraph yesterday that traditional TV was doomed because user-generated content, distributed over the Internet, was going to be of…
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.
Virgin Media which delivers its TV services via cable, is currently offering 10Mbits/sec, is promising 20Mbits/sec service…
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.
The thing is people love huge screens. A social worker friend tells me…
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.
Apparently the founder and president of Zenith Radio, Commander E.F. McDonald Jr., didn’t like TV commercials and asked Adler…