STMicroelectronics Enhances Cable TV Demodulator to Deliver Increased Performance and Lower BOM Cost
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: Michael Markowitz of STMicroelectronics, +1-212-821- 8959, michael.markowitz@st.com   GENEVA, Feb.
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A new process gives plastics electronics researchers the best of both worlds -- electrical performance and processability
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As you may recall from my last entry, I exchanged my cable box from a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD.  The latter, new box continues to output a signal from the cable connection even if I have it in HDTV mode.  It probably also continues to output AVI and S-Video.  This finally opened up a way for me to use my cable box with a MythTV box.   Thanks to a serious (and mysterious) spinal injury (I say mysterious because I haven't figured out how I did the damage), I can only work on the project for a half hour at a time, at most.  I have discovered some interesting things in those short segments.
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Pricey Product will offer low error rate, company says
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Neosonik has come up with a way to beam HDTV pictures and surround-sound audio to a set 120 feet away.
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Early attempts have been marred by high cost and low performance. Now, Avnera thinks it has the answer.Photos: Cutting the speaker cord
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It could be a single malfunctioning power supply. Or, from the other side of the glass, it could be a portent of doom for a technology that would make good use of all those TV channels that no one's broadcasting on, for wireless networking.
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A new product from Swarmcast monitors data flow to optimize video quality.
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Samsung has developed a pair of chips that can receive and decode four mobile digital TV systems.
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The big, bulky tube television is ready to get a leaner look--and to challenge flat panels at their own game. Meanwhile, TV tuners are headed to new PCs.
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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Dual-layer disc to smooth hi-def format adoption
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DALLAS, Sept. 8  /PRNewswire/ -- China-based Konka Group Ltd. has developed a new Internet Protocol (IP) set-top-box (STB) solution based on DaVinci(TM) technology from Texas Instruments Incorporated  (TI).
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The energy-hog televisions are losing ground to their cheaper counterparts. But developers hope that will change with improved technologies.
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Molecular-scale carbon cylinders that receive and transmit light waves open the way for new types of communications equipment and solar cells.
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Plextor has come out with its Mini Digital HDTV Receiver, which connects to a laptopâs USB port.
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New chip will cut the time required to transfer content onto those devices.