News tagged with television format


Why pay when you can copy for free?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New empirical research identifies successful strategies for the exploitation of television formats. Television formats such as X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent are extremely popular with audiences. Over the last decade, the ...





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Toshiba launches Blu-ray after DVD setback: report

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Japan's Toshiba Corp. will enter the Blu-ray DVD market, more than a year after it gave up on its own next-generation format that failed to gain industry support, a report said.


Motorola Launches Advanced Multi-Format Encoding Platform for 1080P Content

Technology / Other

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motorola today revealed its next generation encoding platform. This high-performance video processing platform supports both MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) encoding and transcoding and ...


A man uses a wireless internet access at a Starbucks Coffee shop in San Francisco, California

Miniweb merges Internet and TV with Blinkx

Technology / Internet

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blinkx said it is putting its online video search skills to work for Britain-based Miniweb Interactive, a firm specializing in merging television with the Internet.


A third dimension for mobile phones

Technology / Engineering

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional viewing has not yet made it in a big way onto our television and cinema screens. According to European researchers, the story of 3-D TV is set to be quite different with mobile devices, ...


Watermarks for mobile television

Watermarks for mobile television

Technology / Other

created Oct 01, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For centuries, watermarks have protected written documents from forgery. Now their digital brothers are to prevent videos from being released in the Internet before their television premieres. Electronic watermarks ...


Web 2.0 application developed to recommend television programmes

Web 2.0 application developed to recommend television programmes

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A group of researchers from the University of Vigo, Spain, has developed a Web 2.0 application that filters the programming schedules of hundreds of television channels to recommend programmes that viewers ...


Scientists prepare the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2) "Poisk"

Rocket with new module for space station blasts off

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.


Less TV time may help overweight adults burn more calories, researcher says

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adults may stave off weight gain by simply spending less time watching television, according to a new study. Overweight adults who cut television time in half burned more calories as a result. ...


Mobile radio – look as you listen?

Mobile radio – look as you listen?

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 01, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Eyes can listen too: Researchers have developed a new audio service for cell phone radios in which the sound is accompanied with matching images – such as CD covers or concert photos. Sound and image take ...


Concept Device DVB-H

Cell Phone Calls With the TV – Siemens Presents DVB-H

Electronics /

created Mar 11, 2005 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In the future, it will not only be possible to receive digital TV while on the road; viewers will also be able to help shape the content of broadcasts interactively. At CeBIT in Hanover, Siemens is introducing ...



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