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Harris Announces Interoperability Lab
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2.15.2008
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Harris Broadcast Communications Corp. this week announced the opening of an interoperability lab in Toronto.
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CNN ‘Magic Wall’ Goes Deeper on Super Tuesday
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2.08.2008
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With the wall, anchors were able to drill down to individual counties and use it to explain what was happening and why the network called, or didn’t call, particular contests, said CNN Executive Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief David Bohrman.
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LG, Kenwood, Plug Mobile Video at CES
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1.11.2008
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Kenwood's R&D team is working on the implementation using an LG chipset; the project, to be field-tested in February on TV stations by the Open Mobile Video Coalition.
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CNN ‘Magic Wall’ Helps Explain Caucus
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1.04.2008
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To help clarify this great mystery of democracy—and others in the upcoming months—CNN unveiled a massive “Magic Wall” on “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer” Wednesday.
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SMPTE Launches Professional Development Academy
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12.28.2007
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The PDA will consist of a mix of online and onsite seminars, meetings, tutorials and other resources covering the latest audio and video technologies of interest to television and film engineers.
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Backchannelmedia Demonstrates TV-Internet Click-Through Technology
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12.21.2007
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With Backchannelmedia’s patented technology, a viewer watching a live TV show or a recorded show from a DVR—without interrupting the viewing experience—will be able to click and transfer information in ads or programming directly to his or her personal Web home page.
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Kenwood Develops MPH-Based In-Car Video Devices
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12.14.2007
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The devices will get their first public demonstration at the 2008 International CES in January in Las Vegas.
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Nvision Launches Technology Roadshow
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12.14.2007
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Products that will be shown include Nvision’s routing systems, master control switcher and modular signal processing devices.
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Fox News Rolls Out ‘ElectionLink’ Trucks
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11.30.2007
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Fox News said the totally tapeless vehicles feature state-of-the-art technology with the ability for live IP streaming while rolling down the highway.
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New Specs, Adapters Allow CableCard Devices to Get Switched Digital Video
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11.30.2007
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TiVo said it will introduce a new external adapter using the technology for its high-end boxes that use CableCards—the TiVo 3 HD DVR and the TiVo HD DVR.
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TI, On2 Partner on Advanced Compression Technology
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11.30.2007
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In the agreement, both parties will share technology and development resources, which will allow TI to optimize VP6 and VP7 codec performance for different applications.
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New Intel Processors to Boost Online HD
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11.16.2007
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The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Corp. has announced the beginning of what the company calls a “breakthrough” in high performance transistor design with the introduction of 16 new server and high-end PC processor chips.
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NAB Contributing $750,000 to Open Mobile Video Coalition
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11.16.2007
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The future of broadcast may be with mobile viewers, and NAB showed how seriously it takes that frontier with a $750,000 contribution to the Open Mobile Video Coalition, which aims to promote the development of mobile DTV.
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FLO Forum Completes Open Conditional Access Framework
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11.16.2007
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The FLO Forum, a body of more than 90 global wireless industry companies dedicated to the open standardization of FLOTM (forward link-only technology for mobile multimedia broadcast), has completed the Open Conditional Access (OpenCA) Key Management System Framework, creating a standards-based environment that enables multiple vendors to implement content security systems within the FLO architecture.
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LG, Harris Pitch Community Broadcasters on MPH
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11.02.2007
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Officials of Harris and LG Electronics subsidiary Zenith--together, the developers of MPH in-band mobile digital television (DTV) technology--talked up their system at a keynote presentation at the Community Broadcasters Association annual conference in Las Vegas week.
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Quantel Honored for Genetic Engineering
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11.02.2007
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Quantel received the 2007 Hollywood Post Alliance Engineering (HPA) Excellence Award for its Genetic Engineering linking infrastructure.
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Hitachi Advance Fuels ‘Terabye Era’ of Storage
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10.19.2007
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The technology could provide up to four terabytes of drive capacity for desktop computers and up to one terabyte for laptops.
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World Digital Library Site Is in Proto Stage
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10.19.2007
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The Web site project will digitize materials from libraries and other institutions and make them available for free online, hopefully in late 2008 or early 2009.
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SMPTE, EBU to Collaborate on Timing and Synchronization
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9.28.2007
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has teamed up with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to form a joint task force on timing and synchronization.
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Microsoft TV Boots Up New Interoperability and Qualification Lab
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9.14.2007
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Microsoft has a new Mediaroom interoperability and qualification (IQ) lab, designed to foster the interoperability and compliance of digital video encoders deploying Microsoft’s Mediaroom multimedia and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) software platform.
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