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Also Noted: WHDI emerges

Jim O'Neill — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:23:21 -0400

Chipmaker Amimon’s alliance with Sony and Samsung to support its Wireless Home Digital Interface technology is likely to move the industry forward even as it puts the consumer electronics giants at odds with another technology they support, WirelessHD. “Interestingly, both of these companies have veterans from the HDMI [high-definition multimedia interface] industry,” one expert said. “Both companies understand what it takes to put an industry standard in place and are modeling theirs after the HDMI group. ... People are enamored with wireless technologies, and the ability to send video data from your DVD player or set-top box to the TV is the holy grail of wireless video communication.”

Source: TelephonyOnline

Korea Telecom collects 700,000 IPTV customers

Dan O'Shea — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:56:31 -0400

Korea Telecom has been facing stiff broadband competition, but the telco still managed to reach 700,000 subscribers for its "MegaTV" IPTV service by the end of the second quarter of this year. It has been the telco's ambition to reach 1.5 million subscribers by the end of this year. More than 130,000 subscribers came on board during the quarter. Still, that progress did not save KT from a 30 percent decline in net income to about $158.9 million.

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Samsung announces 82 " 3D ultra-high definition TV

Tom Burton — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:59:30 -0500

Samsung has released its vision for next generation TV, a bandwidth-hogging, 3D-immersive digital cinema. Eighty-two inches big and using four times the pixels of HDTV, the ultra-high definition set will need compression and computer power not yet invented in order to work. Samsung believes the demand for photo realistic 3 D television will drive the uptake of the big screens. The screen will refresh at least 60 times a second and will require new display electronics to handle the required picture realism.

Samsung released the tech specs for the TV at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco last week. Chief executive of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Hyung Kyu Lim, said digital content with such a display at 24 frames a second "requires around 300Mb/s for transmission when compressed using JPEG2000 adopted by DCI. Assuming an effective bandwidth allocated per-household at around 100Mb/s using 1Gb/s Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), it is apparent that a new innovative compression technology with three times more efficiency will be required." Mr Lim said it is not expected the processor power for such a device would be available around 2015, or 2012 for a multi-core processor.

A recent paper on bandwidth demands by the Discovery Center predicted U.S. demand for bandwidth would increase 50 fold to one zettabyte by 2015, fueled by increased demand for video and video telephony. If 3D ultra high definition television become popular, this prediction will be seen as conservative. Samsung also assumed this beast would only work with fiber to the home.

For more:
- Samsung's vision for next-gen TV Article
- Samsung showed the TV off at CES2008 but did not release its tech specs Pictures

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