"Single Segment" refers to terrestrial digital broadcasts intended solely for mobile devices such as PDAs and cellphones.
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The good: Up-converting your set to receive digital broadcasts needn't be as expensive as you might think.
After ten years of painstaking development, an industry-backed outfit called Ibiquity Digital is about to begin enabling CD-quality digital broadcasts alongside today's analog transmissions (see graphic).
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata introduced the device himself, explaining that it came with a tuner to receive digital broadcasts, which for now will only be picked up in Japan.
Radio Five Live, which normally broadcasts on AM, can be heard in much better quality through digital receivers, while BBC World Service and many local commercial stations can now be heard nationally through their digital broadcasts.
Panasonic showed off a system that can pipe terrestrial digital broadcasts into trains, coupled with a wireless system to allow commuters to hear a broadcast's audio via headsets without disturbing other passengers (hey, some of us like to work, read -- or sleep -- on the train).
This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.
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The ruling actually only specifically relates to TiVos capable of recording digital television broadcasts, but why they needed the FCC's approval at all is a little complicated.
Sure, we've got satellite radio in the U.S. But the Brits have DAB digital audio broadcasts that are free over the air as long as you've got a DAB receiver (America's answer to DAB, HD radio, has a long way to go before it even comes close to DAB in terms of reach).
For high quality audio broadcasts, the two top models feature built-in HD Radio Technology, providing clear digital reception of HD Radio broadcasts from radio stations around the country.
Digital short-wave broadcasts would be clearer and could carry bits of text too.
Additionally, Harmonic provides software products that allow customers to control and visually monitor their digital video infrastructure at an aggregate level, as well as solutions for high-quality digital storage of real-time broadcasts for on-demand services.
Yeah, we know that most of you probably won't be affected by this either way, since the Broadcast Flag only governs digital over-the-air broadcasts and the vast majority of Americans homes get their TV via cable or satellite (which have copy control mechanisms of their own), but the Broadcast Flag establishes a very dangerous precedent.
"We expect every theater to be packed, " said Bud Mayo, CEO of Cinedigm, the digital cinema company that made the live broadcasts possible.
By offering so-called second-screen content synchronized with the broadcast, the networks hope they can persuade viewers to watch programming live, instead of on a digital video recorder several days after their initial broadcasts are recorded.
After that date, all "over the air" TV broadcasts will be available exclusively in "digital" format.
There will also be broadcasts on BBC Four, the corporation's digital arts channel which launches on 2 March, and a reduction in the price of tickets.
The federal government wants to ensure that your viewing pleasure encounters few, if any, speed bumps on Feb. 17, 2009--the date that all analog broadcasts will cease and the entire country switches to digital television.
Unless we missed the memo, it isn't like there are any 1080p broadcasts causing us to really wish we had that digital input for, and let's face it, how many STV devices exclusively feature DVI compared to the amount which use component, but may also feature DVI?
For the first time, royalties earned from digital-music services in the UK just surpassed licensing revenues from radio broadcasts.
For those Chinese not able to get their hands on the new digital mobile handheld devices, there's still old-fashioned analog broadcasts.
It says that if DAB broadcasts reach enough of the country by then, a switch to digital would be possible by 2017.
In addition, to show how local TV broadcasters can now offer more than just linear TV channels, LG Electronics is showing its first Android-enabled smartphone prototype equipped with Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) reception, which offers conditional access functionality for future subscription broadcasts and the capability of receiving "non-real time" data such as electronic coupons.
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Also, live sports broadcasts have remained largely immune from a media world that grows more reliant on digital recording devices and online video services that allow viewers to watch their favorite shows when they want to and skip commercials.
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Sachdev said the company will operate in three regions -- Africa, Asia and the Americas -- using a new system of digital radio receivers to provide broadcasters the means to reach populations who normally don't have access to broadcasts.
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