ATSC gives initial thumbs-up to MPH mobile TV standard
by Darren Murph 
posted Nov 27th 2008 at 6:59AM
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Panasonic puts forth proposal for 3D standard on Blu-ray Disc
by Darren Murph posted Nov 24th 2008 at 10:57PM
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RF4CE Consortium aims to develop RF standard for entertainment control
by Darren Murph posted Jun 13th 2008 at 7:40AM
Whittling down the amount of remotes in one's living room has long since been a challenge for the amateur home theater builder, and while there are some decent universal solutions on the market, the RF4CE Consortium is hoping to make things painfully simple. The group has been formed in order to "drive the adoption of an open radio frequency (RF) entertainment control specification based on IEEE 802.15.4." If you'll recall, this isn't the first time we've heard that standard called, as it's also used in MaxStream's XBee Xtender. Notably, Freescale is hoping to incorporate its Synkro technology into the specification, and in an ideal world, we'd see said protocol filter into DVD players, AV receivers, set-top-boxes and all manners of components. Let the IR-to-RF transition begin, we say.Read - Sony's RF4CE Consortium release
Read - Freescale's RF4CE Consortium release
South Americans countries hem and haw over HDTV standard
by Darren Murph posted Jan 6th 2007 at 7:13PM
While it's admittedly unfortunate that the world just can't agree on a single high definition broadcast format to use around the globe, boundaries have already been laid across most of the first world nations. Many South American countries, however, still haven't chosen which format to support, and proponents for both ISDB and DVB are lobbying intently to get their 
