By Rodolfo La Maestra • 22 hours agoThe subject of “content protection” continues to be a complicated issue.
While some firmly think that one should be able to legally make a copy of lawfully acquired content, if such content is protected to avoid exactly that and the protection is circumvented to perform such copy, how can that action be right when it is actually violating the right of the content creator?
The content production industry needs... By Rodolfo La Maestra • Oct 30, 7:10pmThe HD World Conference closed its doors this past Thursday October 15, 2009 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NY.
It was a two day event dedicated to HD, from content creation to production, editing, and distribution.
One of my objectives for this conference was to update my coverage of Mobile DTV and IPTV, and to also discuss the technical details of 3D as it is being implemented for the home.
I engaged in several discussions regarding the production and the distribution stages of 3D, with emphasis on the issues that affect the quality of the final viewing by consumers.
I also covered... By Rodolfo La Maestra • Dec 31, 7:30pmOn July 2006, based on an estimate of the number of households who rely solely on OTA television broadcasts, the U.S.
Commerce Department proposed coupons for an estimated 21 million U.S.
households to aid the purchase of converter boxes,
Congress passed a law providing an initial $990 million dollars within a $1.5 billion program to subsidize the purchase of converter boxes By Rodolfo La Maestra • Dec 18, 5:07pmThis part in the series discusses the implementation of tuner integration, its timing within the DTV Transition, and its impact on existing and future DTVs.
I will talk about over-the-air (OTA) and cable reception, integrated tuners and set-top-boxes (STBs), and satellite STBs.
This is an analysis of the facts related to tuner integration as implemented over the past 6 years within the 10-year DTV transition, and how those facts affect consumers depending on the service they use (broadcast, cable, satellite, or Telco).
At closing I will also identify... By Rodolfo La Maestra • Nov 3 2008, 5:42pmThis part is dedicated to tuner integration and the role it was expected to play in the DTV Transition.
As mentioned in part 3 of this series, 15 million households have over-the-air-only TVs, and many cable/satellite subscribers may also tune broadcast on their secondary TVs.
Would DTV tuner integration address this situation?... More ...
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