Right now only about 20% of Americans are capable of receiving a digital signal through a digital tuner built into the television set itself, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
One of the biggest barriers to success for the studios in the digital age has been the lack of a digital ecosystem that provides a consumer value proposition worthy enough for consumers to fork over their hard earned cash to own a digital movie.
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UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
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But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
In the early 1990s its engineers figured out how to squeeze a digital soundtrack onto a piece of film without losing the analog soundtrack, by putting the digital track into the spaces between the sprocket holes on a piece of film.
Then, in 2010, Sports Illustrated formed a digital partnership with Time Warner's Turner Sports subsidiary, which owns the rights to the NBA, NCAA Men's Division, Major League Baseball, Nascar and the PGA Championship and broadcasts them on Turner channels like TNT and TBS. The idea was to pool the brands' online traffic and give digital advertisers a bigger potential reach, but the partnership was dissolved in April.
What the British want to see is a Digital Copyright Exchange, a market where digital rights can be processed rapidly and cheaply.
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Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
At a recent conference on the future of the arts in a digital world the opening night panel was asked to name a digital art work that had impressed them.
The working prototypes of this digital camera have hundreds of lenses instead of one and bend the basic elements found in a digital camera into a rounded shape.
Near the end of last year, Hachette Digital senior vice president Maja Thomas predicted that digital revenues at publishers would level off at some point and be two separate businesses, a digital one and a physical one.
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And then there is its crowning glory: a wireless broadband digital home entertainment system, installed by Abrocour with a digital kit of parts from Microsoft and Intel, among others, and a BT broadband connection in the broom cupboard.
As its name implies, the ISIS app functions like a digital version of a wallet.
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Create a Digital War Room: Assemble a high-level digital crisis team formed before an attack.
Consumers will need a digital TV or a converter box to get that signal.
An on-board computer gets the machine's position from satellites and reads a digital blueprint from a chip.
To locate emerging artifacts quickly, Dixon and a colleague developed a digital map covering a portion of Alaska.
They will use the money to build a new student centre, a digital library and a sports complex.
Other features include Digital Zoom and a setup for creating "slide shows" with images from a digital camera.
The engine exists now as a digital simulation, a million lines of code.
And many believe it has the potential to be something other than a digital version of a call center.
In a lot of respects, teaching a customer to pay ten dollars for a digital book is a great accomplishment.
When fitted with a pico-projector, the Skinput system could display an image of a digital keyboard on a person's forearm.
Who, for instance, buys a digital copy of a book for their Kindle only to go out and buy a hardcover version?
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The rich red design is a digital printing of a photograph of a worn rug, clear from a distance but blurry up close.
They found two desktop computers without hard drives, numerous computer components, a laptop case and a digital camera with a USB cable attached.
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Presented with a digital image of a painting, PlinkArt would poll its database for a match, helping to identify the work of art.
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The industry believes that the Internet will give consumers one more reason to pay for a digital pipeline and a clever set-top box.
Although the same law requires them to start broadcasting a digital signal, a bungled standard-setting process for receivers means that nobody is watching.
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