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2002 Broadcast Industry News: Arbitron April Webcast Ratings In, MLB.com Debuts in Top Ten WLS-TV in Chicago Purchases 70-Seat Avid Media Browse System NFL Retains NMT As Stadium Technology Consultants STMicroelectronics Intros New Demodulator For Digital Satellite TV TV One Intros Multi-Standard Video Test Generator DV Expo East Premieres Next Month in New York City SCRI and Cathay Consultants to Offer Research on Asia-Pacific Broadcast Markets Fujitsu Develops Record-Breaking 300Gb/in2 HDD Technology Broadcast Video Inc. and Manhattan Transfer-Miami to Combine Operations Thomson Broadcast Solutions Receives Key Orders, Awards At NAB 2002
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![]() Netravali cited for "pioneering contributions that transformed TV from analog to digital" Edited by Charlie White President George W. Bush today announced the selection of Arun Netravali, former president of Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and now chief scientist at Lucent, as one of this year's recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology. Cost of Changeover to Digital Projection the Key Obstacle -- Piracy and Competing Technical Standards Also Concerns Edited by Charlie White With the release of Star Wars Episode II, attention again turns to digital cinema. But moving beyond the hype, digital projection of films faces several major obstacles. A new report by Booz Allen Hamilton finds that full acceptance of digital cinema by the film industry is still a long way off, and in fact may never break through, unless the industry redefines how it shares revenues and finds inventive ways to finance the cost of the changeover.
![]() Nicely Designed, Inside and Out by Charlie White Here's a review of Apple's most powerful Mac G4 workstation to date, the Dual 1GHz Power Mac G4. We've had it in our Midwest Test Facility for the past month, putting it through its paces and experimenting with all aspects of it. We love Macs around here, and this new G4 machine didn't disappoint us at all. That's not to say we didn't find anything wrong with it, though. It's fast, but not as fast as Apple would like you to think it is. And oh, that 22" Apple Cinema display? Nothing short of absolutely beautiful, even though it will run you an extra $2500. Here's our clear-eyed, unbiased, straight talkin' review. Edited by Charlie White TrendWatch published its first issue of the Television/Broadcast report today covering television/ broadcast stations in the terrestrial, cable, and satellite broadcast markets, television services firms, and recording studios. Here are highlights of the report. Average price of cameras and camcorders drops by David Nagel Is it yet another sign that the creative content market might be making a comeback? NPDTechworld, a research firm specializing in consumer electronics and information technology market information, released a report saying that digital camera sales were actually up in the first quarter of this year. This study joins a few others released recently that point to an economic recovery for creative technologies. We're
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