Digital broadcastingby Claudia Sonea

A wonder, but I am not yet sure for whom. There are lots of arguments, against and for it; the important issue is if it is more beneficial for the viewers, because it's all coming to those that pay for the product. The funny thing is that digital television is not that good as they praise. DVB stands for Digital Video Broadcasting, a large suite of international standards for digital TV broadcasting made by DVB Project, the industry consortium, and used by Europeans in satellite, cable, terrestrial and mobile networks. The product DVB-T is supposed to give new television broadcasting to the consumer. The problem is that it has more chances to go bad than the usual cable TV. The picture's quality is more difficult to reconstruct in case of bad signal because of the MPEG-2 video compression. The signal will affect the broadcasting, but unlike analog TV, digital television will be affected by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) too. So it is even worst, but for use, not for the broadcaster that has all the reasons to switch to DVB: cheaper in a long-term view, instead of one analog TV channel you have four DVB channels be paid from more content providers (TV stations). For the viewers the only strong argument is that if you own a LCD or TVs with bigger screens beginning from at least 60 centimeters, you will have a great resolution and picture quality. Anyway there all the stories have two sides. I guess that DVB is something that it's new and like everything new it is regarded with a feeling of incertitude and until we try it we don't really know how it is. In fact experts say it is not too different of the television broadcasting we use now. Of course something bad might happen, but it is also true that you might have a better thing. However, don't let yourself lead by hearsay, you go on check out and share it with the others. I'm looking forward to that, but until then: Surf on!

related story: http://www.cbw.cz/phprs/2007073015.html

by Claudia Sonea for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

Cantell TV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with telecommunications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface coupled with free phone calls. Cantell TV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.

Digital broadcastingby Claudia Sonea

A wonder, but I am not yet sure for whom. There are lots of arguments, against and for it; the important issue is if it is more beneficial for the viewers, because it's all coming to those that pay for the product. The funny thing is that digital television is not that good as they praise. DVB stands for Digital Video Broadcasting, a large suite of international standards for digital TV broadcasting made by DVB Project, the industry consortium, and used by Europeans in satellite, cable, terrestrial and mobile networks. The product DVB-T is supposed to give new television broadcasting to the consumer. The problem is that it has more chances to go bad than the usual cable TV. The picture's quality is more difficult to reconstruct in case of bad signal because of the MPEG-2 video compression. The signal will affect the broadcasting, but unlike analog TV, digital television will be affected by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) too. So it is even worst, but for use, not for the broadcaster that has all the reasons to switch to DVB: cheaper in a long-term view, instead of one analog TV channel you have four DVB channels be paid from more content providers (TV stations). For the viewers the only strong argument is that if you own a LCD or TVs with bigger screens beginning from at least 60 centimeters, you will have a great resolution and picture quality. Anyway there all the stories have two sides. I guess that DVB is something that it's new and like everything new it is regarded with a feeling of incertitude and until we try it we don't really know how it is. In fact experts say it is not too different of the television broadcasting we use now. Of course something bad might happen, but it is also true that you might have a better thing. However, don't let yourself lead by hearsay, you go on check out and share it with the others. I'm looking forward to that, but until then: Surf on!

related story: http://www.cbw.cz/phprs/2007073015.html

by Claudia Sonea for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

Cantell TV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with telecommunications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface coupled with free phone calls. Cantell TV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.

BBC-truth or lieby Claudia Sonea

The UK State Television for which the British have to pay taxes, BBC is the main subject of news articles raising a lot of controversies. The recent scandal is that started in the Guardian that published a wrong information regarding an email that made the BBC fake because the director general, Mark Thompson, wrote in it "to get the gongs" in order to be more exclusive. The fact that everyone seems to forget is that the Guardian made a mistake and the truth is that the email authors was someone else, BBC News 24's morning editor, Simon Waldman, referring to something else. The only thing that the readers remembered was the initial information and not the corrected one, because for the wrong information there has been an entire article, while the correction was in a column with a couple of others. It is probable important the ratings and to show that they are doing something to earn the money they receive, but there is still a big difference between an independent broadcaster and one belonging to a mogul that would publish only what serves to their interest and need of money. The BBC belongs to the people and although sometimes makes mistakes, like the Guardian, there will always be more impartial than others. I think it is still the work of the private broadcaster that are trying to diminish the liability of the BBC, because some financial interest. In Romania is a State Television called TVR and although I usually don't watch it, I still would not give up on it, because it is the only one that can represent some difference in the way the country is presented to other people. I usually see there interesting shows on culture and Romanians. No matter how rubbish seem to be the state televisions, they should not be shut down because it keeps a normal balance between the private broadcaster and the fees. Surf and find some more. Enjoy!

related story: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2136675,00.html

by Claudia Sonea for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

SigEx Telecom :Google and Sprint are working togetherby Ana Maria Ciobanu

Guess who's working together since today! No, not iPhone, not Microsoft, not Yahoo... It's Sprint and Google who announced they'll collaborate to create custom applications for Sprint's cellphone customers. Even though you can get Google's search engine through a standard wireless browser and Gmail Java on most cellphones, this is the first time Google will provide more applications to cell users. This deal will offer the chat application Google Talk and other services created on Sprint's WiMAX which offers fast wireless Internet connections. It seems cell networks are ready to open up their operations to Internet firms. Of course everything is about the money and since we don't have decent regulations we'll be the losers actually, even if we'll have Google on our cell phones. You pay for unlimited data on your cell plan but you can't quite use unlimited data. It seems we'll be able to use Skype but Sprint will charge Skype even though they're already charging you. Maybe I'm to PC-centric but I don't really see the use of all this trouble to equip our cell phones with Google. I need a screen big enough for Google search, Google video or chat. If I have a phone why should I chat on Google instead of using my phone's main purpose: calling people? If I have a laptop why should I pay a big sum for a cell plan? The iPhone is tenting though, because of it's wonderful screen. But if I have a small, slim cell phone I wouldn't want to use Google on it, even for free. Maybe that's just me and many people will find the utility or the trendy face in this new deal. Good luck!

by Ana Maria Ciobanu for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.

Cantell TV : Internet radios forced to pay royalties that might take them out of businessby Corina Ciubotaru

These are not easy times for Internet radios. After long trials, calling the Congress for help and many other hardships, it seems that SoundExchange has finally agreed to lower the fee that webcasters have to pay from $500 per channel to $50,000 per year for all channels. SoundExchange is a former RIAA organism that is responsible for collecting royalties from web radios and then distributing them to record labels. It originally raised the fees from 12% of webcasters’ annual profit plus another annual sum, to $500 for each channel the radio owned plus a fixed-fee for each time a listener hears a song. Not to mention that it would be applied retroactively also for 2006. If applied, this measure could mean the death of all online radio stations, as their profits wouldn’t allow them to pay this much. Fortunately, because of threats to get the Congress involved and increasing public disapproval, SoundExchange has agreed to lower the sum but at a price: webcasters must agree to try to prevent listeners from “streamripping”, the short name for recording music from Internet radios. Only one problem here: even though this practice could be reduced by employing a DRM system, music recording in this fashion isn’t necessarily illegal. It resembles recording a film from TV using TiVo or a VCR, so it doesn’t fall under the laws of copyright. Some of the radio stations held a “Day of silence” on June 26th to protest against these new rules they consider unfair as terrestrial radios, which obtain much higher profits, don’t have to pay mechanical licenses.

related story: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/05/listeningpost_0514

by Corina Ciubotaru for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

Cantell TV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with telecommunications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface coupled with free phone calls. Cantell TV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.