http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac Free daily news and commentary about HDTV and related consumer electronics Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:16:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a press release, The Diffusion Group (TDG) announced its new report, “The Possibilities and Challenges for Mobile TV”. In the release, TDG states that mobile TV subscription services are forecast to double their subscriber base by 2013. This sounds exciting until you find out that this means increasing from ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1299 What’s a Roku? It’s a media player that you connect to your home network, through which it accesses the Internet to get streaming content for your television. It’s a whole lot easier than setting up a full-blown computer, and at about 5 by 5 by 2 inches, it’s a lot ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1298 I long for the old days, when things were simpler. Back when a computer monitor was a computer monitor, and a TV was a TV. It’s not that way anymore. Almost all TVs now have a way that lets you connect it to a laptop or desktop computer: either a ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1297 Last spring, I wrote about Netflix demo’ing its streaming service on a Windows Phone 7 operating system. Now comes word that Netflix is releasing free applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that will let subscribers access streaming content on these portable devices. The free apps can access the streaming ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1296 There’s been a buzz caused by a news item from the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. According to the story, Toshiba has plans to release 3DTV models later this year that will not require the special glasses used with other 3D displays such as those from Panasonic or Samsung. Here’s the ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1295 According to a press release from Western Digital, research by Parks Associates indicates that 42% of the consumers unwilling to connect their TVs to the Internet felt that either the router connection is too far away, or that it would be too complicated to set up, or both. WiFi does ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1294 TWICE commissioned a survey about consumer opinion about 3DTV, and the results have some interesting highlights. A good place to start is the fact that about 78% of the respondents have seen at least one 3D movie in a cinema. This is interesting because nearly the identical 78% have never ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1293 I know I’m not the only one who gets peeved about this; you’re watching a show, then a commercial comes on and blasts you out of your seat with a high volume setting. It’s not just broadcast video; I’ve also noticed this (with dismay) on streaming sites such as Hulu. ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1292 Did you ever notice that with technology, it often seems to be two steps forward but one step back? Before digital TV, our analog tuners could change channels at the speed of a thumb-press. (This was even true in the early days of the remote controls. My grandmother had a ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1291 It was 2008 when I last wrote about Canon’s SED technology, after they won a lawsuit over a technology license agreement and their decision to abandon efforts to make a consumer product and focus instead on a high-end monitor for commercial video production facilities. According to a report in Network World ... http://hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac/?p=1290