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Digital TV for PC 2.0 (Windows)

Digital TV for PC plugs you directly into hundreds of worldwide LIVE digital television channels right over the Internet. Enjoy more channels than cable and satellite TV combined for a one-time fee less than one month of either of those services.

Tags: 3b Software, PC, Microsoft Windows, Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Envizen Digital Duo Box Pro ED8850A

You probably haven't heard of Envizen, but it's one of several off-brand companies that are putting out new digital portable TVs to replace all the obsolete analog units that were toted to sporting events or kept around for emergencies when the power went off. As implied by its name--the Envizen...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, DVD, Games, digital television, TV

Product reviews 2009-10-27

Livening Up Surround-Sound in Digital Television

The companies that offer solutions for broadcast, namely Dolby, DTS, and SRS will continue to innovate, and industry bodies will continue to standardize to ensure that content is delivered into the home in a responsible and balanced fashion. However, the focus of this paper is to look more closely at...

Tags: Digital Television, APTX, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Process Improvement, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2009-09-29

SEG Clip USB TV tuner: Watch digital TV on your iPhone, if you live in Japan

1SEG Digital TVI think it will be quite a while before we can get this in the US. Japan digital TV is a 13 segment signal. The 13th is just for mobile devices. The full HD if recorded or broadcast in HD are on the other 12 segments (you need...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Engineering, Apple iPhone, digital television, TV, tuner, battery, phone

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

SEG Clip USB TV tuner: Watch digital TV on your iPhone, if you live in Japan

Japanese company I-O Data has released the SEG Clip, which will allow iPhone and iPod touch owners to watch digital TV on their phone/iPod. Of course, this is only available in Japan, since it is the only country -- along with Peru and Brazil -- that...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Japan, Digital Television, USB, Smart Phones, TVs, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Telenet Meets Growing Customer Demand for Digital Television Service With Highly Scalable IT Platform

Telenet wanted to meet the growing demand for digital television services and provide a new core server platform for digital television services to support the company's elevated growth rate and provide the scalability necessary for mission-critical applications. The challenge was to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability to successfully deliver Telnet's...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Digital Television, Digital Television Service, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Case studies 2009-07-01

FCC says transition to digital TV has been fairly smooth

FCC says transition to digital TV has been fairly smoothGreat!!!Now when there is an emergency and all power is shut off there will be no way to do wide spread analog information alerts....Good thing I like CB's

Tags: TVs, Federal government, TV & Home Theater, digital television, FCC, TV

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

FCC says transition to digital TV has been fairly smooth

If you're reading this, you probably weren't impacted by last week's official transition to digital TV signals, but there was concern that many people would be without their usual programming and raise a big fuss. According to the FCC, any disruption of service was not widespread, though there were over...

Tags: FCC, Digital Television, Federal Government, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-06-16

DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!

DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!Could you share more details on your Linux experiences?I've been planning to build a Linux based media center but I haven't planned out my plans on dealing with Direct TV. What did you find to be lacking on the Linux media...

Tags: Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVD, DVD Problem, DTV Transition, digital television, CD

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!

My DVD collection is 3 layers deep and takes up 2 tall ugly fiberboard IKEA book cases. I'd like to get them out of my living room and into a random access, cataloged digital media format. Got any ideas? Over the weekend, I...

Tags: Movie, Digital Television, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transitionHas the ATSC glitch affected you?If you?re a Media Center user, has this issue affected you? Leave a comment as a reply here. (If you have another coment to make, please start a new thread) I?ll be following up with Microsoft to see if I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, digital television, digital TV transition, TV, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

With all its Media Center experience, you’d think that Microsoft would have sailed through the long-awaited transition to all-digital over-the-air TV broadcasts in the United States this past weekend. Instead, the company failed, in dramatic fashion. I've got details on what went wrong. by Ed Bott

Tags: Transition, Microsoft Corp., Digital Television, Media Center PCs, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Frugal Friday: DTV Transition, Apple WWDC, Oracle/Sun, Wind River, Zenoss

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the Digital TV transition, Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Oracle/Sun/OpenSolaris, Intel's Wind River acquisition, and talk with Mark Hinkle, Community Manager for Zenoss. Click Here to Listen to the Podcast. by Jason Perlow

Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-12

News to know: Palm Pre weekend; iPhone Monday; Bing; DTV conversion; Twitter accounts

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Palm Pre weekend: Sprint could steal Palm's moment Matthew Miller: Initial Pre thoughts and answers...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Television, Twitter, Sam Diaz, E-mail, TVs, H-1B, Embedded Linux, Cloud Computing, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Operating Systems, Software, Linux

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTV

Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTVYou Forgot an OptionConversion became basis to stop watching broadcast television.At least the voting option ofNothing and I don't care.

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, conversion figure, TV, digital television, HDTV, cable

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTV

As the transition to a 100-percent digital TV landscape officially comes at the end of the week, market research firm Knowledge Networks has crunched some numbers to find out that about a quarter of TV households were impacted by the switch. Despite what seems like the near-ubiquity...

Tags: HDTV, Digital Television, Cable, Converter Box, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-06-07

A USB HD TV tuner debuts for PC and Mac

AVerMedia today announced the launch of the AVerTVHD Volar Max, a new USB 2.0-based TV tuner that’s PC and Mac compatible. The AVerTVHD Volar Max is a USB TV tuner stick that enables your computer to receive HD digital television ATSC and unencrypted digital cable ClearQAM signals,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Digital Television, USB, AVerTVHD Volar Max, PC Version, TVs, Desktops, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Analog TV signals are starting to dim. Have you been affected?

Analog TV signals are starting to dim. Have you been affected?Surprisingly....From the Providence Journal (The ProJo as we call it and the BloJo as it's referred to by The Providence Phoenix):[i]Providence will be the largest TV market in the country where nearly all the stations make the switch on the...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Analog TV signal, Analog TV

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

We're ready for digital TV, Mr. President. No more delays, please.

A new poll, conducted by the National Association of Broadcasters, found that 82 percent of Americans who receive over-the-air broadcast signals have already taken steps to prepare themselves for the switch to digital television. But that's not the big number that caught my eye in the NAB's press release. ...

Tags: Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-05

DTV delayed until June

DTV delayed until JunePresident Obama and the Congress ....... got this one wrong! The same people that aren't ready now won't be ready in June. It is their nature that until their hand is forced they will not act.Furthermore, since when is television is a right? Did...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, digital television, TV

Discussion threads 2009-02-05