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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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.
The Case For Interactive TV
Interactivity can push TV viewer engagement the same way it does on social media, so why aren’t more broadcasters leaning into it from entertainment to news? Engaging viewers with broadcast TV is more challenging than ever.