Tag Archives: DTV
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 [...]
Industry Changing
Ten years ago, if you asked many chief executives of cable and satellite companies what industry they were in, most would have said TV. Those that were transitioning to MSOs, would say that they were in the Dual play or triple-play entertainment and communication services business. Today, I am not so sure that they would [...]
DVR/PVR – Part of the Solution or just interim
Ever since the first PVR/DVRs were released, they have transformed the home TV experience. No longer were you stuck to the schedule, you could watch a programme whenever you wanted, and they were an excellent replacement for tape or DVD based recorders. The only thing that could get in the way were obscure User Interfaces, [...]
Tiscali TV losing out
Ofcom has revealed that only 65,000 homes claim to use Tiscali’s television-over-DSL IPTV service as their main means of receiving digital television. Digital TV – News – 65,000 use Tiscali TV as main TV service – Digital Spy. This news is very depressing for one of the trailblazers in the TV over ADSL world, which [...]
Digital Transition – In Retrospect
Well, the US has begun its transition to digital terrestrial television. The transition has been messy in the corridors of power in the US simply because of concern about the disenfranchising of large numbers of the US population were simply not prepared. The mess is that now rather than the transition taking place on a [...]
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 [...]
IBC 2008 Year 11
Once again I leave it to relatively late to confirm my attendance at IBC. I will be at IBC2008 from Friday 12th to Tuesday 16th September – click for Upcoming.org, and hoping to do the full deep dive on Broadcast and DTV technologies. This year I expect IPTV might start to break into the big [...]