Broadcast Multimedia, Arthur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, and Seppo Kalli, Springer, 2004, $80, 254 pp., ISBN 0-38720843-7. In the 1930s, television gradually found its way into consumers’ homes. With the introduction of color TV in the 1960s, it became a widespread and highly accepted consumer product. It has taken another 40 years to bring a new innovation into the world of TV: the digitalizatio...

There are few countries in the world where television is thought to be fulfilling its potential for the communication of culture and the illumination of public affairs: least of all is it doing so in new and small nations. Yet there is a tendency for people In each country to think that their problems are indigenous problems, that television is much better elsewhere. In some countries it is ass...

Pub. L. 110–53, title XX, § 2031(a), (b), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 515, provided that: ‘‘(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that the report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States stated that ‘Recognizing that Arab and Muslim audiences rely on satellite television and radio, the government has begun some promising initiatives in television and radio broadcasting to the Ar...

This contribution provides an overview of the German R&D project C-PMSE, which aims to develop a research platform for the evaluation and validation of Cognitive Radio (CR) procedures facilitating an improved coexistence of Program Making and Special Event (PMSE) systems in heterogeneous wireless scenarios. The platform will enable realistic coexistence studies with current and upcoming wireles...

Interactivity is something researchers study, new technology commercials promote, and designers create. It's not something people do. People use the internet, watch TV, shop, explore, learn, send and receive email, look things up... The word interactivity and its derivatives are used to represent so many different meanings that the word muddles rather than clarifies the speaker's intent. The co...

BACKGROUND A storm-related disaster in New South Wales, Australia in June 2007 caused infrastructure damage, interrupted essential services, and presented major public health risks. We investigated household disaster preparedness and information sources used before and during the disaster. METHODS Rapid cluster survey of 320 randomly selected households in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, New So...

The global migration of television (TV) from analogue to digital broadcasting will result in more spectrum bands (known as TV white space), previously used in analogue broadcasting, becoming available and unoccupied. A question is on how much white space is available and how can it be used opportunistically and dynamically without causing harmful interference to licensed users? In this paper, w...

The transition from analog to digital video is about to bring the expected convergence of television, computer and communication, however a suitable platform for delivery of multimedia interactive services has not emerged yet. In this paper the approach of the EMBASSI project in the field of easy content access and retrieval for home usage is introduced.

In the last years, FTTH (Fiber-to-the-home) networks became an excellent solution to deliver broadband internet access and TV services. A furthermore integration of IRUWB (Impulse-radio ultra-wideband) signals into GPON (Gigabit-Passive-Optical-Network) technology is analyzed, with opportunity to allow wireless distribution of high definition video over a future personal area network. It is con...

Communication technologies are undergoing a very effective transformation in today's conditions. This transformation, on the other hand, brings new perspective to journalism by means of moving and platforms, enables be examined from different perspectives. The understanding journalism, which has been transformed elaborated with perspectives, is integrated communication causes emergence practice...