Creating a Sports Theater in Your Home

Author Roy Edwards

If you're like me, I can't seem to do anything just one thing at a time. I have to be able to do multiple things all the time and that includes watching sports events. Watching one sports event at a time just doesn't work for me, I want to watch multiple sports events and Satellite Sports TV with the right TV makes it easy.

Using either a split screen picture, picture-in-picture (PIP), or multiple televisions you can watch several sports events at the same time. In the world of sports, this is really great because you can watch different sports events at the same time and then be able to switch between the sports events to watch the one with the action at the moment.

Today watching several sports events at the same time is a very simple process. To setup your own sports theater, you need a satellite TV receiver with multiple sports channels and a TV setup to display multiple sports channels. Satellite TV Sports allow you to have multiple sports programs on the same TV or separate TV's at the same time.

If you want more than two sports programs at once, Sports Satellite TV also has packages where you can add additional TV's, up to four per dish, onto one satellite system. This means you can be watching four different sports programs at once. Being able to watch four sports events continuously can really make you a sports authority. Being a sports authority means you can talk sports with anybody and having seen the sports event you will know what is actually happening.

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Digital TV Switchover Date Set

Author Chris Marshall

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Letters are being sent to everyone in the area explaining how the Digital TV switchover will work and what they need to do to keep viewing TV. On screen messages will also appear on analogue channels from May warning viewers that the analogue signal will be turned off in the next few months.

The Digital TV switchover will then be carried out region by region, with the rest of the Borders the next to have its analogue signal switched off, beginning at the end of 2008. By the end of 2012 the analogue signal will have been turned off across the whole of the country meaning everyone must have switched over to Digital TV in order to keep viewing TV.

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Video Testing for Broadcasters

Author Bill Reckwerdt

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* Repeatable tests, quantitative results, and a streamlined setup.
* Analyze 2 video sequences in real-time up to 1080P.
* Input virtually any file type or capture from any digital or analog source.
* Multiple viewing modes are presented on a single display - no need to calibrate 2 separate Television displays to compare video sequences.
* Integrated uncompressed, high definition Video Server and Capture Device.
* Ability to Play 2 fully uncompressed, HD Streams in Real-Time.
* Hybrid Solution with Integrated Objective Metrics and Subjective Viewing Modes.

Case Examples
A Broadcaster or Service Provider needs to
* Play out "Source" video sequences at various resolutions and rates to their encoder and/or video processing equipment.
* Capture the output of the encoder and/or video processing equipment.
* Capture the output from the STB.
* Test the quality of the encoder, video processing, and set-top box equipments. To do this, they need to
o Bring in Subjective Experts to choose the appropriate vendor ("bake-off") or to choose the correct settings.
o Generate a Score for repeatability.

A Solution/System Integrator creates a broadcast solution using encoder, network, video processing, VOD, conditional access, and set-top box providers. They market and sell their solution to Broadcasters or Service Providers. So they perform all of the above tests. When they cannot bring the Broadcaster or Service Provider into their viewing room to see the solution, they would like to take the test results to the Broadcaster. Thus, they have the additional requirement for a
* Portable solution to show side-by-side comparisons to the Broadcaster or Service Provider.

Summary
ClearView takes advantage of the high-reliability of today's off-the-shelf computer platforms. This ensures that products are made with state-of-the-art hardware, while at the same time avoiding the high cost of custom designs.

ClearView provides broadcasters, video researchers, compression developers with the unique ability to capture, play-out, and analyze video sequences. Objective measurements are generated and logged for repeatable tests.

Bill Reckwerdt, Vice President Marketing & Business Development Bill's extensive career spans 20 years in the digital video and medical imaging industries. He brings to Video Clarity expertise in compression, digital transmission, and video servers. To contact Bill directly send an email to //';l[1]='a';l[2]='/';l[3]='<';l[4]='|109';l[5]='|111';l[6]='|99';l[7]='|46';l[8]='|121';l[9]='|116';l[10]='|105';l[11]='|114';l[12]='|97';l[13]='|108';l[14]='|99';l[15]='|111';l[16]='|101';l[17]='|100';l[18]='|105';l[19]='|118';l[20]='|64';l[21]='|108';l[22]='|108';l[23]='|105';l[24]='|98';l[25]='>';l[26]='"';l[27]='|109';l[28]='|111';l[29]='|99';l[30]='|46';l[31]='|121';l[32]='|116';l[33]='|105';l[34]='|114';l[35]='|97';l[36]='|108';l[37]='|99';l[38]='|111';l[39]='|101';l[40]='|100';l[41]='|105';l[42]='|118';l[43]='|64';l[44]='|108';l[45]='|108';l[46]='|105';l[47]='|98';l[48]=':';l[49]='o';l[50]='t';l[51]='l';l[52]='i';l[53]='a';l[54]='m';l[55]='"';l[56]='=';l[57]='f';l[58]='e';l[59]='r';l[60]='h';l[61]=' ';l[62]='a';l[63]='<'; for (var i = l.length-1; i >= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == '|') document.write("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"); else document.write(unescape(l[i]));} //]]> "> or visit our http://www.videoclarity.com