Fast-paced growth in bandwidth availability is moving interactive television from an industry joke to a significant investment item in the media arena, and challenging the concept of television as a one-way mass distribution media.
Systems relating to outside broadcasts, graphics and general post-production may be merged. However, a BBC spokeswoman stressed details of any particular co-operation are "too far down the road", but said the companies are looking at ways of...
Ethernet has a number of difficulties," he says. Having accepted that there may be an application out there to fit the bill, what makes us think Gigabit Ethernet is the technology to fit that bill? Critics, such as Eolring's director of marketing...
Adding power distribution to Ethernet networks promises lots of improvements, says Martin Brampton. Another problem that will be solved by widespread availability of Ethernet connections that deliver power is that of international compatibility.
It enables traceability - knowing who has seen what - and therefore affords better control over the document production process. There are several processes that have been considered outside the remit of corporate IT - for example, the electronic...
Now we have television networks, like KPIX here in California, that are actually using Slingboxes and maybe a wireless modem that they can put in a lot of places they never could before like ferries on the [San Francisco] Bay.