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  1. Re:My requirements before I buy a (H)DTV by grumling · · Score: 1 · on FCC Speeds Up Digital TV Signal Deadlines
    Because the FCC, who represents the public interest, has decided that the switch to digital TV will be a better use for the public airwaves.

    Well, the FCC and Zenith and RCA, who wanted to come up with a new system that they would hold the patents to, thus destroying the foreign competition (IE Sony). Great how all that worked out just as they planed.

    Some links...


    http://www.zenith.com/sub_about/about_corp_history .html


    http://www.thomson.net/EN/home

  2. Not the first use by shikari666 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Rodriguez uses Linux to Edge out ILM
    While the subject is interesting, the claim about "first movie ever to use a digital format supporting full-bandwidth RGB" isn't quite correct.

    The Viper Filmstream camera has been used on at least two features prior to this and also uses Dual Link output to a RAID.

    http://www.thomson.net/EN/Home/Press/PressReleases /CorporatePress/PREN040209.htm

    Just setting the facts straight.

  3. Who/What is Thomson? by sanityspeech · · Score: 1 · on Real Pays For Legal MP3 Playback On Linux

    According to Wikipedia:

    Thomson SA, formerly known as Thomson Multimedia is a multinational electronics manufacturer and media services provider headquartered in Boulogne, France.

    Thomson is named after the electrical engineer Elihu Thomson who was born in Manchester, England, on March 26, 1853. Thomson moved to Philadelphia at the age of 5, with his family.

    For more information, please see the Wikipedia article.

    The corporation's home page is available here

  4. Wait for this gadget: LYRA RD2780 from RCA/Thomson by rd_bbc · · Score: 1 · on 60G Nomad Zen vs. The iPod

    RCA LYRA RD2780

    - 20GB HD
    - 3,5" LCD
    - 5.2 x 3.14 x 0.98 inches
    - MP3, MP3PRO, WMA, MPEG4, JPEG
    - USB 2.0 or flash card
    - video in/out
    - 15 hours battery time
    - Available in summer 2003
    - $399 in suggested retail price

    Picture + specs

    Preview:

    Pressrelease from RCA

    Pressrelease from thomson

    pics

    The design is of course not at nice as with ipod, but still quite nice compared to archos. The screen is by far better than the one on ipod and is larger than the one on archos. I would go for this gadget because of the big screen and the overall design.

  5. Oh my, another DTV standard! by derekb · · Score: 2, Informative · on iTV Standard v1.1 Released

    Well we got excited about ATVEF, then MHEG, then MHP, somewhere in there OpenTV developed their own proprietary system, as did Liberate. And that's not even including the TV over ADSL guys...

    iMagicTV, one of those TV over ADSL middleware providers uses HTML with 'tv in the browser' as does others like Minerva and Orca...

    Don't forget about hardware vendors who are already shipping and this includes the big boys like Thomson/RCA

    So why yet another dtv standard.. I'm getting dizzy...

  6. RCA? Interesting. RCA owns MP3. by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on BMG Stops Producing CDs

    [BMG owns] RCA Records

    Strange. BMG, a major record label, owns RCA Records. Thomson Multimedia owns the rest of the RCA brand, and Thomson is also the exclusive USA sublicensor of the MP3 patents. Does that point toward a new method of fighting "Music Piracy 3" (the first two were player-pianos and tape decks)?