Today's TV viewers want more content from an increasing number of sources, and that means that Internet delivery is a growing phenomenon. With hybrid technologies emerging, it is reasonable to expect that television broadcast will increasingly use the Internet to expand throughput beyond that afforded by a single RF channel. But there are limitations to the Internet that must be understood in order to capitalize on this commodity, and some of those constraints are being overcome by new technologies.

With the exception of non-Class A LPTV and translator licensees that use Morse code to identify their transmitters, broadcasters have little use for the code. Many readers, however, are amateur radio operators, or may have thought about getting an amateur radio license. For them, the FCC decision last week to drop th

The change reflects revisions to international radio regulations made at the International Telecommunication Union’s 2003 World Radio Conference.

It notes it’s been 100 years since “SOS” became the standard signal for ships in distress.

Under the proposed net neutrality rules, Internet providers will be barred from blocking or slowing Internet traffic on the basis of the content being sent or downloaded.

With all of the hype surrounding the migration of video services to IP networks, an issue that often gets overlooked is whether or not there is enough capacity on the Internet backbones to handle the increased load.

In analog communications, error correction depends on the ability of humans "decoding" the sound or picture to separate the desired information from the noise. In digital communications, this function is accomplished through the use of forward error correction coding. Coding spreads out the data (in amplitude steps, ti

Huge video files threaten to clog the Internet to sluggish downloads and frustration with data-heavy services.