20 Years of HD TiVo
It’s been 20 years since the DIRECTV HR10-250, the first high-definition capable TiVo, started arriving in customer’s living rooms. The Phoenix (as the HR10-250 was known within TiVo), was a project born out of the dreams and passion of two engineers. It went on to become a beacon of inspiration and excitement during an uncertain …
The Project Entangle EX-β
A couple months ago we were thrilled to assemble an Entangle platform that actually looked and felt more like a set-top box. The Entangle EX-α is a Raspberry Pi 4 mated to an HDHomerun Flex 4k. Unfortunately stock FFmpeg doesn’t enable hardware-accelerated HEVC decode, which is needed to watch ATSC 3.0 broadcasts. And while patches …
Send In The Clones! Cloning the Silver Sensor
For many years one of our favorite antennas, and our go-to antenna for on-the-road OTA, was the venerable Silver Sensor. It’s on the compact side and has an interesting reception pattern – it’s somewhat directional and rejects signals from the back, but has a rather wide reception from the front. We had one since the …
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Samsung leads US CTV market increasingly dominated by smart TVs
The number of external streaming devices connected to smart TVs in the U.S. declined by 31% in 2024, according to a report compiled by Samsung Ads. Samsung’s Q1 2025 State of Video report, which culls data from the Advertising Research Foundation, claims that Roku alone went from having 40.
Welcome to the 2025 NAB Show, Where the Future Is Now
There may be no better way to alert visitors to what’s in store at this year’s NAB Show than to extend a simple four-word greeting: Welcome to the future.
AI Reshaping Broadcasting: Takeaways from NAB Show 2025
Artificial intelligence got a double feature at NAB Show 2025 on Monday, as industry leaders tackled how the technology is transforming everything from local journalism and syndication to marketing strategies and internal operations across two key sessions.
Viewers want more features, better search ability with smart TV operating systems like Roku, Amazon Fire TV
Just because more consumers than ever own a smart TV or connected TV device doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement.
How Media Industry Leaders Are Harnessing AI For Creativity And Efficiency
Industry leaders from Defiant LA, Graham Media Group, E.W. Scripps and more unveiled case studies and insights on how AI is transforming content creation, sales and operations during TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere last week.