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March 30, 2008
OTA Antenna and HD ATSC Broadcast Information
TiVo Superstore | High Capacity TiVo DVRs, Upgrades, Remotes, Parts & Repairs
Many people are interested in Over-The-Air (OTA) antennas and signals, especially with the rise of high definition (HD) television screens. There are presently three types of OTA signals: analog standard-definition signals; digital standard-definition signals; and digital high-definition signals. Following is an explanation of what each is, why you'd want them, and how to find out if you can get them. All, of course, in relation to TiVo.
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March 12, 2008
TV Technology
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March 11, 2008
Hulu - A River Ran Through It
Testing Over, Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week - New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Hulu.com, the long-gestating Internet joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox, emerges from limited testing on Wednesday to make its catalog of TV shows and video clips available to anyone on the Web.
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March 10, 2008
Cable Advertising Takes Aim
Cable Firms Join Forces to Attract Focused Ads - New York Times
In an effort to slow Google’s siphoning of advertising dollars away from television, the nation’s six largest cable companies are making plans for a jointly owned company that would allow national advertisers to buy customized ads and interactive ads across the companies’ systems.
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TV Without TVs
Serving Up Television Without the TV Set - New York Times
The “stupid computer” is a repeated target of the dimwitted office manager Michael Scott on “The Office.” But the show itself may be motivating viewers to put down their remote controls and pick up their laptops.
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Pharos
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March 07, 2008
Configuring Servers for Streaming - Pt 2
Streamingmedia.com: Configuring Servers for Streaming - Part Two
Contrary to popular wisdom, adding more memory to a server does not necessarily enhance performance. Look at the performance attributes of the entire server prior to assuming that more memory will speed things up. Also, RAM should be in proportion to the speed of the processor. The faster the processor, the more data it can process. It’s important to have as much data in memory as the processor can handle.
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Streaming Server Configuration
Streamingmedia.com: Configuring Servers For Streaming - Part One
Streaming media is 80 percent technique and 20 percent luck. The following tips won’t bring you luck, but they may prove helpful for setting up a new streaming server or getting the most out of the ones you have. Some are common sense techniques. Others are workarounds that solve the symptoms of a particular problem until technology, or good reason, offers a better alternative. And a few come from the hard-won experience of Andy Herron with the Advanced Systems Technology Group in the Computing and Communications Department of the University of Washington. The University of Washington provides streaming services for ResearchChannel, KEXP Radio (joint venture between Paul Allen's Experience Music Project and the UW), and UWTV.
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March 06, 2008
Tandberg Asset Mgmt
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Content Delivery Networks
Cutcaster Blog: Choices for your CDN provider and their APIs
Choices for your CDN provider and their APIs
We decided to take a look at the different content delivery networks out there and provide some of the information to our readers.
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CED-Broadband Tech
Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine
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Xytech Systems
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