Monthly Archives: January, 2009
Digital Transition Problems
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Digital Transition approach being followed in the UK and in the US. In summary, it was that neither the UK or the US had the right approach as the US were doing it too quickly and the UK too slow. Since then a number of events [...]
Digital Britain
OFCOM with Lord Carter has published the Interim report about the vision for some of the country’s critical digital services and communications issues, and it was readily digested by all and sundry. The press have really dissected the report for its facts which you can via your favourite search engine, readily find out. Alternatively can [...]
Internet Broadcasting
Over the last couple of days, I had become aware that in the UK, we could watch pretty much live what ITV produces across four channels (ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4). There are some exemptions where rights are not available as such, but this is a pretty good service based on Silverlight. Prior to Christmas, the [...]
Attention to detail in EPGs
The world of EPG (Electronic Programme Guides) has moved on since they were originally introduced alongside Digital TV (and earlier if you count Teletext as the earliest example). They have moved from nice to have guides to all the many tens to hundreds of channels and what is on them right now, through to really [...]
Digital Transition Approaches
Quite famously, the US chose the big bang approach to the removal of Analogue Terrestrial transmission and its replacement with Digital, something completely different to the UK approach which takes place over a four year period. This was scheduled for February 17th 2009 several years ago, and it is rapidly approaching. However there is now [...]
CES – Broadband and Digital Technology
CES is happening in Las Vegas right now and a great many new announcements for products and services are being made. It is really worthwhile to keep up with what is going on there. Now we are not ‘doin the bloggin thing’ and blogging the show but you will notice that the News Headlines feed [...]