BACKGROUND In an earlier study on malignant melanoma incidence in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the USA, we found a strong association between the introduction of FM radio broadcasting at full-body resonant frequencies and increasing melanoma incidence. The purpose of the current study was to review mortality and incidence data for malignant melanoma of the skin in Sweden and its temporal relatio...

This article looks at the prospects for DVB-T and DVB-T2 in Germany, in view of the fact that the future of classical terrestrial TV broadcasting in the country is under discussion and that it may even be terminated before the end of the decade. The article also identifies solutions for media delivery to portable and mobile terminals such as in-car receivers or Tablet PCs which no longer rely o...

There is a need for real-time copyright logo insertion in emerging applications, such as Internet protocol television (IPTV). This situation arises in IP-TV and digital TV broadcasting when video residing in a server has to be broadcast by different stations and under different broadcasting rights. Embedded systems that are involved in broadcasting need to have embedded copyright protection. Ex...

Existing secureembeddedsystemsareprimarily cryptographybased.However, for effectiveDigital Rights Management (DRM)ofmultimedia in the frameworkof embedded systems, bothwatermarking and cryptography are necessary. In this paper, a watermarking algorithm and corresponding VLSI architectures are presented thatwill insert a broadcaster’s logo into video streams in real-time to facilitate copyrighte...

In the last twenty years, there has been a tremendous increase in salaries and transfer fees of professional sportsmen. In addition, the values of TV broadcasting rights for sporting events have risen sharply and many sports teams have developed in fullfledged businesses or are even traded on the stock market. This means that sport has developed from pure entertainment to entertainment industry...