From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Theatrical Releases in Home Theaters Coming Soon

May 31, 2010

It might be a little early to rejoice, but it seems that many major studios are in negotiations to reduce the time it takes to move top quality movies from the big screen to the home theater. The goal is to get movies from the big screen to the home theater in 30 days. This [...]

Xbox TV Channel? Maybe…

May 28, 2010

Microsoft might be mulling the possibility of a video game/Xbox-centric television channel according to multiple sources. Just what the station would feature or how it would work is still a mystery, but Microsoft has already demonstrated that their current generation Xbox gaming devices can serve double-duty as set top boxes (STBs) without substantial upgrades or [...]

Google TV Announced

May 25, 2010

Google TV has finally been announced after months of speculation and rumors, but the answers provided by an official Google blog post provide entirely new questions. These questions are surprisingly broad, especially concerning just what the new technology is. Is it a device? Is it a platform? Is it a technology? There are certainly arguments [...]

Time Warner Cable Calls Foul on Piracy Requests

May 20, 2010

While nobody at HSE will ever suggest that piracy is a good thing, it has been an open question as to just how bad piracy truly is. It might be easy to look at actors with eight-figure movie deals and figure that they could live without one or two extra sales this year, but that [...]

WiGig: WiFi Gets Serious, Wireless Broadband to Follow?

May 17, 2010

Wireless broadband technologies have traditionally lagged behind WiFi standards for a number of reasons, but the distances involved are a key factor. This trend does not seem in danger of ever changing, which makes looking at next-generation WiFi standards a good guide to see where wireless broadband services are likely to go. The good news [...]

Energy Efficient Home Theater an Oxymoron or the Future?

May 13, 2010

Home theaters were once anything but energy efficient, but this is changing as environmental awareness and political realities are being rapidly demystified by the media. While inaccurate information is perhaps more prevalent than honest information, it is still essentially true that overall awareness of energy concerns and the environment are more common these days. That [...]

DSL Phantom Mode: Copper to Hit 300 Mbps?

May 4, 2010

Fiber is certainly the next big thing in terms of broadband, IPTV, and VoIP services, but the question many are asking is: how much headroom does copper (or any other metal) have left? Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell division thinks it has an answer: enough overhead to produce speeds of up to 300 Mbps of downstream performance. Dubbed [...]