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Toshiba has announced that is planning to launch two new commercial products that will be based on PlayStation 3 technology.
The Japanese news site Tech-On! reports that an upcoming Toshiba ...
Date: 9 May 2008 18:05 | 9 comments
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Now that the scheduled date for nearly all analog TV broadcasts in the US to be shut off approaches the FCC is finally getting around to some real world testing. Wilmington, North Carolina has ...
Date: 9 May 2008 15:05 | 12 comments
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The majority of the news about digital television (DTV) here at Afterdawn seems to revolve around the upcoming transition in the US. While that's understandable given our large American audience, ...
Date: 8 May 2008 13:05 | 9 comments
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Apple has made it clear in recent months that they believe their iTunes online store is capable of taking the lead in online movie downloads in much the same way it practically created the ...
Date: 1 May 2008 17:05 | 2 comments
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JVC has announced that will be making massive changes in an effort to recover its slowly dying HDTV business.
The company reported a loss of $455 million USD for the business, compared to ...
Date: 27 Apr 2008 21:04
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Samsung and Sony will reportedly spend 1.8 trillion South Korean won (about $1.9 billion USD) to buy a new facility to upgrade their S-LCD Corporation joint venture.
The new upgrade will ...
Date: 26 Apr 2008 21:04
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Westinghouse has announced today the launch of its "flexible" PT-16H610S HDTV.
The TV is dubbed by the company as a "Flexible Lifestyle Display" and is built around a 16 inch LCD display ...
Date: 24 Apr 2008 19:04 | 2 comments
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Samsung has introduced its Touch of Color LCD line for desktops which claims to have the same excellent visual effects as its 6 series HDTVs.
Each LCD will have the same "blown glass effect ...
Date: 23 Apr 2008 20:04 | 6 comments
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Over the last month I've been working on a number of MPEG-4 AVC related guides. Devices from mobile phones to Blu-ray players, and numerous others in between the two extremes, are designed with ...
Date: 21 Apr 2008 14:04 | 1 comment
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Entertainment giant Viacom is partnering with MGM, and Lionsgate to start a new premium cable channel. Less than three years ago Viacom gave up ownership of Showtime to CBS Television when they ...
Date: 21 Apr 2008 13:04 | 2 comments
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Recently showed off at the Display 2008 expo trade show in Japan, Sony has introduced new "ultra-thin" OLED display televisions that are even thinner than its current XEL-1 model.
The XEL-1, ...
Date: 19 Apr 2008 21:04 | 2 comments
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Philips, one of the best known consumer electronics companies on the planet, witnessed its first quarter profit drop 75 percent due to bad performing sales of television sets, particularly in ...
Date: 15 Apr 2008 04:04 | 3 comments
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Move Networks announced a $46 million Series C funding round led by Benchmark Capital that includes global technology leaders Cisco, Comcast Interactive Media (a division of Comcast Corp.), ...
Date: 15 Apr 2008 00:04
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Philips has developed a watermarking solution in its hospitality television sets and will have it available starting in May in a full range of HDTV sizes. The technology is developed to ease ...
Date: 14 Apr 2008 22:04
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According to Kwon Young-soo, CEO of LG Display, the company has seen growing demand for small-size LCD sets in recent times as more consumers dump bulky old televisions for newer flat-screens. ...
Date: 12 Apr 2008 01:04 | 15 comments
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Following last month's launch of a 19-inch 10,000:1 Digital Fine Contrast ratio display, LG has announced the launch of the W2252TQ 22-inch Widescreen monitor with the same contrast ratio.
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Date: 8 Apr 2008 21:04 | 6 comments
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Following the fall of the HD DVD disc format, all eyes turned to Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, expecting a response to the news that could come in the form of a Blu-ray-equipped Xbox 360 unit ...
Date: 8 Apr 2008 00:04 | 25 comments
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Recently, the large ISP Comcast began sacrificing quality for quantity in their broadcasts by degrading the quality of their HD video to make room for more channels.
Beginning on April 9th, ...
Date: 6 Apr 2008 18:04 | 17 comments
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Verizon is citing a widely publicized article in which an HDTV enthusiast on the AVS Forum experimented with Verizon's FiOS and Comcast's HD offerings to defend a potentially misleading advertisement ...
Date: 6 Apr 2008 01:04 | 10 comments
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Sony Corp. has unveiled a small video camera capable of recording high-definition (HD) video to a flash memory card. The company claims that the video camera is the world's smallest and latest ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 23:04 | 9 comments
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Britain's free-to-air digital TV service will offer high-definition (HD) channels to viewers with the proper equipment by 2012, in time for the Olympics. Ofcom had already hinted at plans to ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 23:04
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A very interesting article by bfdtv on the AVS Forum revealed the effects of a HDTV provider choosing to sacrifice quality for quantity. Comcast is degrading HD video on some of its systems ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 05:04 | 22 comments
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Earlier this year I was forced to find a replacement for Windows Media Center in order to use the latest version of Windows Media Player to support the Netflix Streaming service's DRM. After ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 17:03
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Frank N. Magid Associates conducted a survey which has found that 59 percent of Americans are aware of the impending February 19th 2009 switch to all-digital television broadcasts in the United ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 07:03 | 30 comments
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Quanta and ooVoo have announced that they have teamed up to "produce the first plug-and-play, real-time, high-definition video chat and messaging system" for HDTVs.
Citing the continuing ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 01:03
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Philips has introduced a new LCD TV, the Eco FlatTV, that it claims will reduce your current electricity bill, regardless of how much TV you watch.
According to Philips, the Eco FlatTV's ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 21:03 | 3 comments
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According to a new Pike & Fischer report, over 47 million American households will pay for some sort of HDTV service by the end of the year and that will increase to over 100 million by 2012.
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Date: 18 Mar 2008 20:03 | 9 comments
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As part of our continuing effort to keep up with current technology, we're pleased to announce the addition of two new guides. The first is an introduction to Haali Media Splitter. If you're ...
Date: 18 Mar 2008 04:03
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At 0.9 inches at its thinnest, BenQ has introduced the V2400W, a 24 inch monitor inspired by the B-2 stealth bomber that "uses a new plastic injection technique that both curves the back of ...
Date: 17 Mar 2008 21:03 | 51 comments
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Dell has introduced a cheaper but more accurate replacement to their mid-grade 2007WFP LCD model dubbed the 2009W.
According to Dell, "the 2009W can reproduce 102% of the NTSC color range ...
Date: 16 Mar 2008 20:03 | 1 comment
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In its competition with cable companies for subscribers DirecTV has had a number of successes, often due to the geographical size of their customer base, compared to no more than a regional ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 19:03 | 16 comments
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Once touted as a bright spot in the future of display panels in the television industry, OLED technology has often been found to promise quite a bit yet produce very little. No one quite knew ...
Date: 12 Mar 2008 20:03 | 14 comments
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This week has been a little slow for Glossary updates as I've been concentrating on some MPEG-2 editing guides. However there are two notable additions for the VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 18:03
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TiVo Inc. has defied the predictions of analysts by making a quarterly loss of $6.4 million. Improved sales of older DVR hardware and reduced expenses influenced the loss, which is about 6 cents ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 23:03 | 4 comments
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Circuit City has tripled the period in which a customer can return a HD DVD player from the previous and standard 30 days to 90 days. The move is made at a time when the industry is moving rapidly ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 21:03 | 8 comments
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Things aren't looking too bad in the High Definition front for early HD DVD adopters or other HD enthusiasts. In the wake of Toshiba's announcement to drop HD DVD a number of lucrative deals have surfaced.
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Date: 5 Mar 2008 08:03 | 47 comments
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Pioneer has decided the plasma TV market is to competitive and will be halting all internal production of plasma displays. The company will not be leaving the industry however and will instead ...
Date: 4 Mar 2008 22:03 | 31 comments
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ABC executives have managed to convince themselves that viewers really don't care about fast forwarding, or at least that's the official company line, as voiced by Anne Sweeney, the president ...
Date: 26 Feb 2008 02:02 | 16 comments
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With the increase in new content at Afterdawn over the last year, we've had a hard time keeping you informed of the resources we have available in our Guides section. In order to let you know ...
Date: 25 Feb 2008 09:02 | 2 comments
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As flat panel TV sales continue to increase and LCD continues to grab an increasing amount of market share, some manufacturers have shifted their focus away from plasma HDTVs. One company that ...
Date: 25 Feb 2008 06:02 | 2 comments
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Industry sources have said that Sony is planning to begin buying LCD TV panels from its rival Sharp, possibly as soon as April of this year.
Sony is currently running an LCD panel joint venture ...
Date: 24 Feb 2008 23:02 | 13 comments
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Japan may have taken a long time getting into the space race, but they're quickly making up for lost time. Powered by a rocket designed and built in Japan, they've launched a new satellite which ...
Date: 24 Feb 2008 05:02 | 11 comments
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With new technology and ways to deliver video being introduced at breakneck speed, one thing most entertainment executives will admit to is that nobody knows anything for sure. To date no one ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 09:02 | 4 comments
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According to backers of controversial new devices that would make use of the so-called "white spaces" between DTV broadcasts for wireless networking, FCC testing of their latest submission isn't ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 05:02 | 8 comments
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the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association (JEITA) released a forecast on Thursday suggesting that annual sales of LCD TVs will likely reach 155 million units by 2012. In 2007 ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 04:02 | 4 comments
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Once again it's time for my weekly list of Glossary updates. Since I've spent the majority of the last week working on some guides for processing captured video I haven't been able to spend ...
Date: 21 Feb 2008 12:02 | 1 comment
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If you live in the U.S. and have a TV with only an old fashioned analog TV you have just a year before your TV will no longer be able to receive OTA (over the air) broadcasts. Although that ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 02:02 | 3 comments
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Another week has gone by, and as I threatened last week I'm continuing to update the Glossary. Here are the highlights of my updates over the last week.
MPEG-4 Part 10 - MPEG-4 Part 10 ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 02:02 | 1 comment
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A wireless device which would use the so-called "white spaces" between broadcast television channels for wireless communication has failed FCC testing.
This is the second test and second ...
Date: 13 Feb 2008 01:02 | 3 comments
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After last month's announcement that the Apple TV would see an update, the "Take 2" upgrade is finally available.
Users simply need to navigate to the Settings menu and hit Software Update. ...
Date: 12 Feb 2008 23:02 | 10 comments
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Canada's federal broadcast regulator will begin hearings today on whether or not it will allow two companies to enter into the ring with their own unique over-the-air HDTV signals. Toronto ...
Date: 12 Feb 2008 17:02 | 3 comments
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As Jamie (Dela) announced last month, the staff here at Afterdawn is working on updating some of our core content in the Glossary. Along with additions like our new Topics feature we're planning ...
Date: 7 Feb 2008 20:02 | 1 comment
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According to DisplaySearch, Sony has jumped ahead in holiday quarter LCD TV sales while Vizio has dropped.
This quarter marks the first time Sony has been on top of LCD sales and DisplaySearch ...
Date: 6 Feb 2008 22:02 | 5 comments
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Anybody who witnesses an OLED TV in person will remark on how vibrant the colors are and what a wonder these televisions are to behold, but the organic materials they use within the set degrade ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 20:01 | 15 comments
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Ever since movie giant Warner Brothers defected and sided with the Blu-ray camp, its been an uphill battle for those involved with rival HD-DVD. Just weeks after the announcement of WB switching ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 20:01 | 58 comments
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Folks over at Equinux have given Apple users something more to cheer about with the introduction of their Tubestick hybrid USB digital and analog TV tuner for the Macintosh computer. It comes ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 17:01 | 3 comments
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Bolstering three new LCD televisions to its Aquos X line, Sharp has announced its thin 3.44cm (at the thinnest part) architecture. Loaded with many features HDTV lovers want in their sets, these ...
Date: 24 Jan 2008 16:01 | 10 comments
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In an announcement by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), the company has secured carriage for its MGM HD channel on Verizon's FiOS TV service, bringing feature film hits from the MGM library ...
Date: 24 Jan 2008 16:01 | 5 comments
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Unlike the actual consumer side of the U.S. digital TV (DTV) transition, for which the FCC has taken a relatively hands-off approach, the auctioning off some of the radio frequencies being abandoned ...
Date: 24 Jan 2008 03:01 | 5 comments
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If the results of a recent study by the Association of Public Television Stations is to be believed there are tougher times ahead for television broadcasters in the U.S. According to the study ...
Date: 22 Jan 2008 03:01 | 10 comments
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