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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Streaming Hits Another High in November as Overall TV Use Climbs
The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight, presidential election and conclusion of the World Series drove viewing in Nielsen's monthly platform rankings. The presidential election and the conclusion of the World Series helped drive overall TV use to a nine-month high in November.
Next Generation of Creative Storytelling Ushers In, Allowing Users to Create Highest Quality AI Video Content Instantly with Diffuse 2.0
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Higgsfield AI (https://higgsfield.ai/), a multimodal AI company building tools to spawn the next generation of creative storytelling, today announced the release of Diffuse 2.
Consumers call AI-generated video ads annoying, confusing, per NIQ
Dive Brief: Consumers are quick to identify video ads made with generative artificial intelligence (AI) — and aren’t enthused about what they see, according to new research from NielsenIQ (NIQ).
Florida Launches AI-Powered Emergency Communications System
Update your browser to view this website correctly. Update my browser now Emergency management officials in Florida are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to better protect residents from the threat of hurricanes and other natural disasters.