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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The Project Entangle EX
Project Entangle – our platform for exploring ways of obtaining and consuming media – was developed on PCs and up until now Entangle platforms have largely been laptops or NUCs. They make great development environments and have a plethora of tools often missing from embedded platforms. But even “thin and light” laptops are big …
Meta Previews ‘Movie Gen’ AI Video Creation Tool
Get ready for the next wave of AI generated content, with Meta unveiling its latest video generation tool, called “Movie Gen”, which will soon be available in its apps.
CBS Stations Debut AR/VR Presidential Election Center
An ambitious effort to develop and deploy AR/VR technologies at CBS’ owned stations will be taking center stage on Nov. 5 in five markets, when CBS Stations will debut what the division is calling “unprecedented augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) presidential election coverage” on Nov.
Channel 4 becomes first UK broadcaster on Apple Vision Pro
Update your browser to view this website correctly. Update my browser now Channel 4 has announced the launch of its streaming app on Apple Vision Pro.
More NFL, New Dramas Boost Linear TV Share In October
Now deep into fresh programming content for fall TV season, NFL programming and new scripted dramas pushed up broadcast TV share -- to 24%, according to Nielsen's total TV/streaming measure. This was broadcast TV's best result since January of this year (24.2%), and improves on the 22.