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 …
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.
The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated. Employee retention is always a bit of a problem at local newspapers, and The Garden Island newspaper on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is no exception.
Deloitte: Hollywood Still Cautious Over Implementing Generative AI
Concern over the maturity of artificial intelligence coupled with copyright issues are among the hurdles facing the film and TV industry’s adoption of generative AI, but the potential cost savings associated with the technology are fueling studios’ interest in adopting it.