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Digital TV likes clear signal path

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 31, 2008 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Question: If I buy a new digital TV, can I just plug it in and use it, as I do the old TV now? My son insists that it has to be hooked to an antenna, but the old televisions worked fine without one.





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Pinnacle&acutes HD mini Stick

Pinnacle Unveils Compact USB Digital HDTV Tuner

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 2

Just in time for the Fall Season TV line up, Pinnacle has introduce their new ultra-compact HDTV tuner with some features found in DVR's. With Pinnacle´s HDTV Stick you can also pause live TV and record shows ...


NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. ...


Shape shifters: Researchers create new breed of antennas

Shape shifters: Researchers create new breed of antennas

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antennas aren't just for listening to the radio anymore. They're used in everything from cell phones to GPS devices. Research from North Carolina State University is revolutionizing the field ...


SMOS forms three-pointed star in the sky (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following the launch of ESA's SMOS satellite on 2 November, the French space agency CNES, which is responsible for operating the satellite, has confirmed that the instrument's three antenna arms have ...


Textile antenna promises futuristic communications

Textile antenna promises futuristic communications

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a simple press on his shirt insignia, the captain of the Star Ship Enterprise could send and receive messages. Now, thanks to the efforts of a Finnish company, this futuristic communication ...


Cell Phone Antenna

Spinning carbon nanotubes spawns new wireless applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

The University of Cincinnati has long been known for its world-record-breaking carbon nanotubes. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered new uses by spinning carbon nanotubes (CNTs) ...


Bridging the gap in nanoantennas

Bridging the gap in nanoantennas

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain ...


MIT upgrades Sputnik-era antenna

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mammoth MIT antenna installed in 1957 as the first radar system to conduct space surveillance (it observed the Sputnik satellite) is poised for many more years of key observations thanks to a recently completed ...


Reception problems linger after DTV transition

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The shutdown of U.S. analog TV service on Friday appears to have gone relatively smoothly, but as expected, a lot of viewers are having problems getting the stations they want.


Low-power 60GHz solution in digital 45nm CMOS

IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave ...



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