It has been quite a while since our last installment. Ian and I pick things up again after several months by taking a look at what has been going on in the industry and how it impacts our custom installs. Naturally, we want you to listen to the Podcast, but here are some of the [...]
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We first cover my checking out the new Samsung 3-D displays as part of their 3-D Road Tour for Installment 031. We also discuss the current state of DLNA devices, a little on my thoughts about calibrating for 3-D, and some updates from my guest appearance on Entertainment 2.0 at http://thedigitalmediazone.com/2010/07/02/entertainment-2-0-84-the-future/. The big thing we [...]
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Installment 030 finally wraps up our series on HDMI by taking the pieces we have discussed previously and applies them to selecting HDMI Matrix Switchers. There are a wide variety of factors to consider when standardizing on an HDMI Matrix Switcher platform for any kind of distributed video/audio/control ecosystem. We have seen several clients just [...]
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I had the opportunity to go to the local Panasonic Touch the Future Tour back in March (sorry, a little late on getting this one out). I thought I would focus on my findings as the theme for Installment 029. It is a bit of a diversion (once again) from our drill down on HDMI, [...]
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This Installment dives into the Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) data structure, which is the way that a display device “describes” its capabilities to the source. EDID is defined by a standard published by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is what allows the source to know what the sink is capable of doing. [...]
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This blog post provides background material on Enhanced Display Identification Data (EDID Management), the topic of Installment 028. I thought it would be useful to publish the information ahead of time because it is difficult to describe byte-code level data structures verbally and seeing it visually ahead of time makes it easier to grasp the [...]
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We finally are starting to understand the relationship of HDMI 1.4 to the requirements of 3-D as we discuss what the vendors actually are delivering in Installment 027. Along the way, we also talk about some of the latest news like networking Ceton (or any CableCARD) tuners, how Microsoft is looking to their Azure services [...]
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We spend a considerable amount of time in Installment 026 discussing the growth of HDMI and digital interconnects as the only high definition connectivity option available in about a year, especially for Blu-ray players. Of course, current equipment still should play as it does now (unless it potentially gets a firmware update that changes that), [...]
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We continue our discussion of the CEC functionality in HDMI for Installment 025. Before we dive into CEC though, Ian spends a little time enlightening us to his adventures with MyDevices and a couple of other applications for interacting with devices and services based on UPnP technologies/DLNA from his cell phone. [mp3]http://media.libsyn.com/media/iandixon/TDL_Custom_20100222_025.mp3[/mp3] Direct Download – Subscribe via [...]
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Installment 024 is live. It has been a while. We decided to let the dust settle after CES before picking things up again. It has been a year since our first installment. Man, we have covered a lot of territory since then. I decided to change the way I format the subject for these blog [...]
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