Broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. Africa has a switchover date of June, 2017. For Nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. The awareness among urban dwelle...

purpose: popular tv series and sitcoms have received different reactions from people of different   classes. the present study was conducted to measure the positive and negative attitudes of   psychologists, psychiatrists, chronic psychiatric patients and ordinary healthy viewers toward an   iranian tv series entitled ‘the physicians’ building’ whose main character was a psychologist.   materia...

This paper presents the architecture and implementation of a multi-service streaming system for broadcast of MPEG4 elementary streams. The proposed system promotes the use of the push channel model for information distribution [1]. The system architecture accommodates two main layers for broadcast service management and media delivery. The broadcast service management layer uses the publisher-s...

Despite continual consumer demand for richer broadcast media, there have been few examinations of senses other than vision and hearing in this domain. This demonstration paper considers the role that touch may be able to play in future broadcast systems. We have begun to explore the addition of haptic cues to children’s cartoons, and through this process unearthed a number of practical design i...

New consumer services are transforming the Hertzian broadcast media into a rich source of multimedia content. A Broadcast Media Navigator combining Softare Radio elements with Audio Indexing techniques and digital audio recording is proposed. Results from a PC-based demonstrator implementaing a simple speech/music discriminator are presented.