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Friday, June 22, 2007

Homezone Customers Can Now Enjoy More HD Channels Than With Cable View this story

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

While it’s true that our industry is heading towards a place where wireless will play a larger part in home integration, it’s unlikely that we will soon reach a point where we can completely dispense with installing a wired infrastructure in homes. View this story

Here comes Zigbee. While folks in the competitive Z-Wave camp have a slew of gadgets for wireless mesh networks, the Zigbee crew has been slow to deliver devices for a good Zigbee-based wireless home-control network. That’s changing now that Card Access has created Zigbee-enabled switches and relays, endorsed specifically by Control4. View this story

Monday, April 02, 2007

Install a ZigBee light switch, and the device automatically appears on a Vista PC, ready to be controlled. It sounds so basic, but the concept has eluded developers for many years. The scenario is finally real, thanks to Web Services for Devices, the protocol that enables third-party software to discover and control compatible devices. During EHX, Archronix and Interactive Homes Inc. demonstrated the application with real product. View this story

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

With an insightful overview of today’s data and news and connection to how it will affect the electronics market, NetStream’s Herman Cardenas explained why the future of A/V won’t have much to do with, say the Blu-ray/HD DVD victor, but it will have everything to do with the Internet. View this story

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

On a tour of NetStreams’ growing offices in Austin, Texas, I witnessed some serious testing facilities and silly pranks. View this story

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Recently announced new products from Apple, Sling Media and Netgear and new features for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 are all about taking content from the computer world and watching it in the TV world. View this story

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

At a reception last night, HANA, the High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance announced Cablevision and IBM as new board members. There, and on the show floor, several vendors showed compliant products communicating with each other via 1394 over wireless, coax, Cat 5 and powerline. View this story

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Last year, some big companies from cable, CE and TV broadcasting launched HANA, an alliance promoting HD video over a 1394 network with DTCP protection. But didn’t a similar group, DLNA, promise to do the same, but using IP instead? Sort of. Staving off a battle, PulseLink will demo at CES multiple 1394 and IP streams sharing one coax, complying with HANA & DLNA. View this story

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Not two weeks after we learned that Sony’s Blu-ray player would be delayed because of a software issue comes word that Pioneer’s BDP-HD1 stand-alone Blu-ray player—originally expected to ship in October—is also delayed. View this story

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

While MoCA may be visible in the telco space, the organization came to the party later than Coaxsys, which was apparently the first modern-day company to ship a product that delivers both video and IP-based data over existing coax cables and splitters. View this story

Friday, July 28, 2006

If you’re like most TV watchers, you probably have a rat’s nest of coax cable running through a network of cheap splitters. And you probably think you’ll never get HDTV without rewiring. View this story

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Earlier this year, Cisco announced a “strategic investment” in Zensys, creator of the Z-Wave RF protocol for applications such as home automation. View this story

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

These days, it’s no big news that Cisco wants to dominate the digital home. View this story