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[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] Watching shows on a digital video recorder, transmitting a football game to a laptop via services such as SlingBox or simply moving video from one device to another in a home network would technically be considered a retransmission that requires the broadcaster’s OK.

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[Blog.activehome.co.uk] InterActive Home blog - your complete guide to home entertainment ...: The TVs are based on SED (Surface-conduction Electron emitter Display)technology which has been knocking around for the best part of two decades.Last month, both companies announced that production was about to get under wayand Toshiba is now saying that the first 50in SED display will hit the streets inMarch 2006. Apart from brightness/contrast/power benefits, the displayswill have a native high definition TV (HDTV) resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixelsand a response time of under a millisecond.

[Digitaltx.tv] Digital TX Limited Weblog - Articles, Library, Opinion, Reference ...: Set-top boxes should ideally ship with not just serial numbers and viewing cards, but the postcodes of the customers who have ordered them, so this information can help content developers to produce highly targeted and localised services that are massively more compelling than their precedents, such as “Find My Nearest ”¦.”, and the likes of GPS and mobile integration (imagine getting directions to a dinner party on your phone from someone’s set-top box - they both speak IP). As the RIAA have shown with their psychotic litigation spree, IP addresses can be geographically resolved by ISPs to individual premises and their customer accounts, which is now being used by content owners like the BBC to restrict viewing of material to certain countries.

Lightreading.com[Lightreading.com] Light Reading - Video - Will Software Kill the IPTV Set-Top ...: The Verimatrix system includes a session-based watermarking method that leaves a digital fingerprint on each content stream entering a PC. That way, if the content later shows up on the Internet or somewhere else it shouldn't be, the service provider could conceivably trace the content back to an individual customer.

http://www.broadcastbuyer.tv [Broadcastbuyer.tv] IPTV/VoD Killer Apps And Craps: Using IP and internet technologies to transmit video makes geography essentially ... First and foremost, IPTV is about TV. As obvious as that may sound, ...

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