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As of now, HDTVTotal.com is an official member of the European HDTV Forum and shows up on the memberlist.
We're pleased that we can now provide our contribution to the breakthrough of european HDTV together in a cirlce of many small and big names.
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Porn industry mulls next-generation DVD
As goes pornography, so goes technology.
The concept may seem odd, but history has proven the adult entertainment industry to be one of the key drivers of any new technology in home entertainment. Pornography customers have been some of the first to buy home video machines, DVD players and subscribe to high-speed Internet.[...]
reuters.com
news.com
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The next generation of technology won't have a Hollywood ending
In 1999, a 16-year-old Norwegian high school student took on the motion-picture industry and won. The teenager, Jon Johansen, wrote software that decrypted the Content Scrambling System (CSS) that rearranges the bits on prerecorded DVDs to prevent the discs' being played back on unauthorized hardware. Until Johansen wrote his software utility, which he called DeCSS, you could copy the bits from a DVD to your computer hard drive, but because those bits were scrambled, you couldn't play a movie from those copied bits.
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After a temporary move of the server in october (Link to german post) the site should have moved back to the prior server now, together with an update.
But because of a xMas promotion of a hoster, the site will move to a new server in january, so the two current servers will be canceled and we kindly found a place on one of the servers of EZC until mid january.
More and comments at the forum.
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Consumers may suffer after rival rejects Sony olive branch
Sony, the Japanese electronics and entertainment group, has approached arch-rival Toshiba in an attempt to prevent a damaging format war over their next-generation DVDs.
Toshiba, which is preparing to launch its own high-definition DVD player as soon as next Christmas, rebuffed the offer to work together, however, setting in train a worldwide battle for consumers.
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European HDTV pioneer Euro1080 is to launch a second service, HD-2, in June 2005, with the emphasis on pay-per-event. Gabriel Fehervari, General Manager of Euro1080 also revealed that the operator would be using MPEG-4 encoding from that time. [...]
Read more at: advanced-television.com
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HDTV/SDTV Simulcast of the Sat 1 TV Event of the Year
ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion and SES ASTRA will simultaneously broadcast in HD and
SD via ASTRA 19.2° East on the 29th and 30th of November
Unterföhring/Betzdorf,
22nd November 2004. Just six weeks after the
first simultaneous broadcast in advertising financed German Free-TV
of high-resolution HDTV (High Definition Television) in parallel with conventional
digital standard resolution, ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion and SES ASTRA have
arranged yet another HDTV/SDTV Simulcast.
On 29th and 30th November, "Die Nibelungen – Der Fluch des Drachen“ [The
Nibelungen – The Curse of the Dragon], the "TV Event of the Year" on Sat.1,
can also be received via ASTRA 19.2° East in the new, high-resolution HDTV
standard.
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From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris
There was a sharp divide at this week's HD conference in Paris over the way ahead for High Definition TV.
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The DVB Steering Board has approved a revision to its well known implementation guidelines for audio and video codecs over a broadcast Transport Stream to include the option of both H.264/AVC video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codecs.
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The hottest thing within TV is HDTV, High Definition TeleVision. It grumbles a lot in Sweden because so far the HDTV-broadcasts are few. But that's slowly changing, and for the one that really want's to watch at HDTV already, it's actually quite easy.<
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