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03/01/2008
BROADBAND: Transient Voltage Surge Suppression
Among the highlights of this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was Panasonic President Toshihiro Sakamoto’s introduction of the company’s Life Screen, a concept 150-inch high definition (HD) plasma display panel. At 4,096 x 2,160 pixels, this HDTV set has four times the resolution of 1,080p displays and an effective viewing area of […]
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02/25/2008
TVs With Internet Jacks
VOD is Like ABC, CBS, Comcast and Bresnan Go VOD Mad, Connecting TV to the Internet, Another Wonderful Day for Nick, Copying DVDs Legally, Diversity Woes and other news
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02/05/2008
Pipeline Profile: Ben Legault
CT caught up with Ben Legault, director of cable marketing, Ciena, during the SCTE Emerging Technologies Conference in January.
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02/01/2008
Broadband: RF CNR vs. Baseband Video SNR
If one were to measure RF carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) and baseband video signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the same analog TV channel, how would the numbers compare? This definitely falls into the "it depends" category. Much has been written over the years about CNR vs. baseband video SNR, but the definitive reference is the 1974 National […]
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02/01/2008
Watching the PacketCable Barometer
PacketCable 2.0 incorporates components of 3GPP, but in the near term, this spec's potential lies more with business voice and possibly home networking than wireless infrastructure.
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01/15/2008
Conference on ET Looks Ahead
This year’s SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies opened Tuesday morning with a keynote address by Futurist.com Founder and Owner Glen Hiemstra. An academic who focused on communications, Hiemstra bought his Web site in the early 1990s and hasn’t – so to speak – looked back. "There’s an advantage to looking further ahead than we usually […]