| CES unveils the future of TV
One would expect a week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to focus the mind on ever smaller gadgets. Instead, it was the big numbers that impressed the most.
The single most visible trend is the explosion of new technology for TV monitors, from three perspectives:
First, the size and quality of the screens themselves, with Samsung demonstrating the first 108 LCD screen, and several other manufacturers demonstrating screens ranging from 70 to 102. Its not the size that dazzles, but rather the quality. Even at a more conventional-sized level, the 40 screens have come into their own: at that size, Sony, HP, LG, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba and many others are all showing near-perfect images from digital sources like DVD and Hi-Definition TV. Tube TV is dead, non-flat panel is dead.
NICT Launches Field Test of HDTV Transmission via IPv6 Multicast ...
Toward the actual implementation of IPv6 multicast technology, Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has started a field test to test the reliability of the technology and the communications with other networks. Multicast refers to a method to send the same packet to multiple reception points. By utilizing JGN2, a testbed network operated and managed by NICT, seven broadcasting stations, the snow festival site in Sapporo City, and training camp sites of professional baseball teams in Okinawa and Kochi Prefectures (all of the above places are located in Japan), as well as a station in Thailand are connected with one another to send TV programs in HDTV format and others. In the field test, transmissions are performed in the actual environment in a bid to achieve redundancy in the IPv6 multicast network structure and multiplexing of multicast sending servers.
Sharp 46" 1080p Aquos HD LCD TV
The Sharp 1080p Aquos HD LCD TV range will impress us with crisp colours and extremely sharp images due to the Advanced Super View panel which is enabled by an astounding 15,000:1 contrast ratio. Other fascinating features of the Sharp 1080p Aquos HD LCD TV include Fine Motion Advanced technology, Quick Shoot Video Circuitry for a faster pixel response time of only 4ms and an extra wide viewing angle of 176 degrees so that the user can view the image from just about any angle. There are three HDMI ports, 2 HD component terminals and one DVll on all TVs in the series and they are also HD compatible, so will be ready to use with your hi-tech gadgetry that you may not have even bought yet! The Sharp 1080p Aquos HD LCD TV range is available in Piano Black and the 65 model is available in high-gloss Piano Black.
HDTV processor promises sharp images, colors
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced the new TVP9010 integrated HDTV processor and development platform. Using sophisticated video processing techniques, said the company, the highly integrated TVP9010 HDTV processor promises high-quality, full HD 1080p resolution images, as part of a cost-effective solution that fulfills the broadcast requirements for ATSC and DVB-T standards. The TVP9010 combines advanced video processing with optimally integrated, field-proven analog functions. In support of the upcoming DTV transition, TI is also unveiling an ATSC to NTSC converter box development platform based on the TVP9007, another processor in the TVP9x family, with integrated 8-VSB/QAM demodulator and TVP9x HDTV processor. Sharp images, vibrant colors
Technologically advanced video processing developed by TI produces sharp, clear moving images, vibrant colors, high contrast and lifelike skin tones for a natural video appearance.
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