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• Cable HDTV Availability Continues to Grow Nationwide
HDTV Cable Service Now Available in 18 of Top 20 Markets
• FireWire's Spark May Have Returned, Reports In-Stat/MDR
• Faroudja Intros New Digital Video Processors and Display Packages
Faroudja Expands Video Product Offering for High-end Theater Market
• Industry Luminaries to Keynote iHollywood Forum's Digital Studio Summit
Second Annual Summit to Spotlight Impact of Digital Technology on Film and Television
• Thomson Opens New Digital Post-Production and Film Laboratory Facility in New York
Facility to become home to Technicolor's New York film laboratory
• FastChannel Network Opens Los Angeles Office
Growth Fuels LA Expansion
• Lucent Launches New VDSL Product That Delivers Ethernet In The First Mile
V-16 IP DSLAM Combines Fastest DSL Technology With IP To Bring Ethernet Service to business and residential subscribers
• Federal Court Rules Regulation of Video Game Sales Unconstitutional
Federal Appeals Court Overturns St. Louis County Ordinance Saying Games are Protected Speech
• Thomson Buys Recoton Accessories Assets at Bankruptcy Auction
Court approved last week's auction of Recoton assets, including $60 million bid by Thomson for Recoton's accessories business and related accessories brands
• Harris Corporation Demos Direct Fiber Optic Upgrade Path From 2.5 to 10 Gigabits-Per-Second
Shows new technology at SuperComm 2003
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Media consolidation closes some doors while opening others
The FCC recently relaxed its rules for media ownership, so now huge broadcasting companies can grow even bigger. Where corporate giants were once allowed to own only a handful of TV stations each, now a station group can amass enough local stations to cover 45% of the United States. A company can even own two TV stations in a single market, as long as only one of them is in the top four in ratings. Why should content creators care about this? It's just a bunch of politics, right? Well, it could cost you your job, if it hasn't already.
HP puts together solid machine featuring new 3GHz P4 "C" chip, 800MHz front-side bus
HP sent us its latest XW4100 workstation, and it's sporting some brand new technology inside. Revving under the hood is Intel's newest chip, the P4 3.0GHz C, running alongside a fast new 800MHz front-side bus. The new P4 C also uses Intel's tricky hyperthreading technology, making one chip act like two. All this comes in a pleasing package, a fine product that's the first new desktop from the newly-combined Compaq and HP. Let's take a look.
Drive performs as well as it looks
There are hardly any instructions included with Western Digital's 200GB 7200 RPM FireWire/USB 2.0 Combo Hard Drive ($349.99). There's a good reason for that -- there's nothing you need to know. Plug it in, and you instantly have a huge and fast external hard disk that looks great, too. Mac or PC, FireWire or USB 2.0 -- all are welcome with this jewel of a peripheral.
Dell builds a solid entry level workstation for DCC, CAD applications
As corporations move to cut costs and bring corporate media, CAD, digital video editing, and other DCC jobs in house, computer manufacturers have taken note that many companies, especially the smaller businesses, don't have the need for the latest dual Xeon workstations.
Sorenson Squeeze 3 a wonder for compression
The Sorenson Video 3 Pro Codec is probably by far the best compression codec out there. It has the ability to produce some amazing results. In the past, however, the only way to get the codec was to purchase it and then install it with your other compression software. But what if Sorenson decided to create their own compression software based around their great codec? Would the results be worth it? You bet! I recently took a look at Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite for the Mac and PC platforms and was quite impressed.
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