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LG to put ARM processors & GPUs into HDTVs

Chris Davies, Jun 22nd 2009 Discuss [0]

LG and ARM have announced a partnership that will see the former's HDTVs use the latter's ARM11 MPCore multicore processor and ARM Mali GPUs. The system will allow for not only high-definition 1080p processing but video-on-demand, voting and polling, games, and e-commerce without the need for a separate set-top box. Read The Full Story

TiVo DirecTV PVR delayed until 2010

Chris Davies, May 29th 2009 Discuss [0]

TiVo have pushed back their DirecTV TiVo DVR plans to early 2010, rather than the second-half of 2009 as originally suggested. Revealed in the company's quarterly financial call - in which TiVo confirmed that they had made a net loss of $4.1m in the three month period - no official reason for the delay was given. Read The Full Story

Adobe Flash Platform for HDTVs gets hardware, content

Chris Davies, Apr 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

Adobe have announced hardware and content partners who will adopt the Adobe Flash Platform on internet-connected HDTVs and set-top boxes. Demonstrating a range of widget and HD streaming media capable devices at the National Association of Broadcasters Show this week, Broadcom, Comcast, Intel, Netflix, NXP Semiconductors and others have all signed up for the platform. Read The Full Story

Broadcom announces First DLNA-enabled SoCs with integrate MoCA technology

Daniel Lim, Jan 13th 2009 Discuss [0]

Cable subscribers, especially the Verizon folks should be fairly familiar with MoCA (multimedia over Coax Alliance) technology as networking platform to stream multimedia though coaxial cable. No? How about the Zeevee box that is capable of livecasting any internet-based video from PC-to-Tv with similar technology? If we are getting there, here’s another piece of MoCA-based SoC (System-oc-Chip) invention from Broadcom to take on industry's first HD STB devices piggybacking coax cable infrastructure into a whole-home media distribution network. Read The Full Story

Funai preps tru2way dual-tuner set-top DVR

Daniel Lim, Dec 16th 2008 Discuss [0]

Funai looks forward to beat the godfather of DVR, step ahead of Tivo to launch tru2Way integrated dual-tuner set-top DVR. Announced back in May, the company exhibited its tru2way STB platform with DVR, dual decode, NTSC, ATSC and various network capabilities at the Cable Show in Big Easy; today, they have further confirmed its plan to mass-produce the tru2wy box during the third quarter of 2009, but the timing will hinge on CableLabs’s approval. Read The Full Story

Panasonic VIERA HDTVs with tru2way coming to Chicago and Denver

Brenda Stokes, Oct 15th 2008 Discuss [1]

We've talked about Panasonic's new CableCARD, the tru2way before, however, the devices are going to see the light of day very soon. Specifically, Chicago and Denver will be the cities privileged to get the tru2way-enabled VIERA HDTVs first. Read The Full Story

CableCards approved Panasonic, tru2way HDTVs coming for holiday

Daniel Lim, Oct 3rd 2008 Discuss [1]

Have you ever been lied to and ignored by cable service provider when asked to gather CableCARD installation on your HTDV or Set-Top box? They sure have interesting ways and unheard of excuses to avoid the topic. If you are new to CableCARD and insist of its service, they’ll probably throw you the technicality or excuse of system incompatibility, and then push the company’s HDTV tuner instead. What they hardly explain to customers is the current CableCards’ inabilities only miss the costly and no good subscription of VOD premium movie services. You are more than fine unless you live in a few unfortunate cities that employing SDV on HD channels. All these hassles with CardCARDS will soon to change with tru2Way. Read The Full Story

Sigma Design SOC’s SMP8644, good candidate for Tivo S4?

Daniel Lim, Sep 29th 2008 Discuss [0]

Robust interactivity and powerful multimedia processing System-On-Chip will soon feature on next generation IPTV set-top boxes, IP cable set-top boxes, and Blu-ray players thanks to the availability of Sigma Design's SMP8644. The company has announced its highest performance SOC yet promised to deliver feature-rich SOC at CEATEC show this week. Tru2Way, BR Profile 2.0, Dual SATA-2, USB, Ethernet controller, NAND and NOR flash module controllers are among many features integrated in SMP8644 SOC. Read The Full Story

TIVO new User Interface in testing, features Picture in Guide at last!

Daniel Lim, Sep 29th 2008 Discuss [0]

If I were to list one basic feature I’ve always wanted for my TIVO is an integrate User Interface with Picture in Guide (PIG). Little has changed with its interface over the years, picture is obstructed by grid-style onscreen guide while navigating though user menu to retrieve list of recording show or change settings. Competitors such as DirectTV, Dish Network and Cable service carriers have long offering DVR with PIG. That soon to change; Tivo is cooking up a user interface with a complete new look- Featuring PIG with ability to display picture while peruse user guide. Read The Full Story

Tivo unveils HD XL DVR with 1TB Storage Space

Daniel Lim, Sep 4th 2008 Discuss [0]

No sight of Series 4 with Tru2way just yet but Tivo has announced a brand new premium DVR that comes with extra large recording capacity at Cedia 2008. The XL size of Tivo HD now featured 1TB of storage space (over 150 hours of HD programs), Glo remote and THX-certified just like the S3. Read The Full Story

Sony to include tru2way standardised interactive cable in LCD TV

Chris Davies, May 28th 2008 Discuss [0]

Sony is the latest manufacturer to sign up to the tru2way cable platform, the standard announced at CES 2008 that aims to integrate cable services into TVs rather than rely on set-top boxes. The inclusion of tru2way would also mean customers could access the interactive elements being offered by multiple cable companies, no matter which service they were using. Currently Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications and Cablevision are all supporting the standard, between them making up the top six spots for the US' largest cable companies. Read The Full Story

uControl home security system with media streaming & automation

Chris Davies, May 19th 2008 Discuss [4]

You don't have to be as paranoid as I am about security to see the sense in fitting a decent alarm system. However, definitions of "decent" vary; it strikes me that all the sensors, sirens and flashing lights in the world aren't much use if you're out of hearing distance (how many neighbours actually check out your home when the alarm goes off, and how many just curse it as noise pollution?) And, since we're united in our geekery, we can admit that it's nice, too, when there's a slick interface too. uControl are relatively fresh to the home security scene; they've spent the last year developing a platform called SMA (Security, Monitoring and Automation) and a TouchScreen control panel which not only works as a fresh system install but can also integrate with an existing alarm. Read The Full Story