Category Archives: Development
Revolution of Evolution
There was once a time (once being even today in some product companies), when companies would spend two to three years on making a new product. That was the competitive environment back in the day. These days though products are developed in much less time than that, with new product being produced at least every [...]
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
Apple Spreading out of its’ Orchard?
There is some speculation based on the flimsiest of a job posting (Apple To Bring iPhone OS To New Gadgets) that Apple could be looking to expand beyond the iPad device, as that being a first step beyond the phone and handheld information device world – perhaps into the mainstream TV world. Apple have had [...]
IBC2008 3D VOD/EPG
I promised to return and talk about the 3D VOD/EPG demonstrator shown on the Eventis stand. As you can see from the pictures, it offers a very simple effect that is much more effective in person. It does offer a novel way of providing you with information about the movie or giving you a foreground [...]
IBC2008 D-Day approaches
As mentioned earlier, I am travelling to IBC2008 in Amsterdam. My thoughts earlier were about IPTV breaking big time this year, and I think that is a given. The interesting thing will be whether this will be in the connected home sense. What I mean by this, is a full in-home/out-of-home multi-vendor, standards based ecology [...]