signal

Sling Media unveils SlingCatcher and three new Slingboxes

Crave The Slingbox 'slings' your TV signal over the Internet, at which point the SlingCatcher 'catches' the signal and pipes it through your television. You no longer need a laptop or desktop computer to receive the signal.

Tags: connect, television, laptop, tuner

12 January 2007, 1:15

Crave Talk: Why digital radio still can't beat FM

Crave DAB radio was sold to us as a revolution in radio listening; a chance to abandon our crackly analogue sets and upgrade to a flawless digital signal. It might shock you to learn that many DAB broadcasts sound worse than the same station on FM...

Tags: rate, bandwidth, upgrade, stations

16 March 2006, 13:51

Tributaries HXC5: 1080p video over Ethernet

Crave Tributaries claims it does this with 'minimal signal loss'. Obviously we hope the signal loss is very minimal indeed, because otherwise all you're going to get out the other end is nonsense, rather than 1080p video.

Tags: loss, cable, house, send

20 November 2007, 10:36

Evesham iplayer: Smartest set-top box ever?

Crave There's an 80GB hard drive that'll let you record up to 70 hours of TV and it'll even upscale the standard-definition Freeview signal to a hi-def 720- or 1080-line signal, output through HDMI, so your films will look much tastier.

Tags: evesham, hard drive, definition, box

6 December 2006, 10:59

Photos: Crave pays the BBC's R&D department a visit

Crave To demonstrate the abilities of the system, the team working on this project are transmitting three high-definition signals, encoded at 15MBps, and one standard-def signal. The Kingswood team use this van to test the viability of the signal being...

10 July 2007, 13:14

Samsung LE40R51B: Super-size me

Crave Well, the TV's innards are bereft of a digital tuner, so you'll have to buy a box or put up with the smeary mess of an analogue signal. And unlike other cheaper LCD TVs, it has Samsung's DNIe picture processing, which beats the bejesus out of the...

Tags: samsung, lcd, inch, tuner

10 October 2005, 12:47

Freeview HD: BBC completes DVB-T2 trial on R&D's birthday

Crave The signal was then sent via the Guildford transmitter -- often used for trials because of its proximity to R&I's headquarters at Kingswood Warren. After being transmitted, the receiving hardware demodulates the signal and produces a transport...

Tags: broadcast, research, hd, analogue

2 September 2008, 11:32

Sennheiser RS130: high wire artists

Crave The transmitter is designed to hold the headphones when they're not being used, and because of the extra power needed to transmit a signal, they need to be powered from the mains. Beyond this, you'll have to put up with the static as the headphones...

Tags: charge, signal, powered, pair

7 September 2005, 11:34

FM transmitters: iTrip vs everyone else in our real-world test

Crave Still, when the very sporadic occasion of signal drop-out wasn't haunting us, the iCast performed quite well. It was arguably as clear as Belkin's TuneCast and signal strength was fantastic. Anyway, the RadioStreamer immediately enraged us by...

2 August 2007, 11:37

Sharp DK-A10HBK: iPod docking with style

Crave Built into the system is a digital signal processor and Sharp's new E-Sound technology. Sharp has announced a new iPod-integrated hi-fi system, which aims to deliver superior sound quality while providing a simplistic way to climb about the iPod...

Tags: sharp, generation, cd rom, bass

14 March 2007, 14:00

FlyBook V33i HSDPA: Frustration at your fingertips

Crave We've just been sent the FlyBook V33i HSDPA, which as the name suggests comes with a high-speed downlink packet access module and SIM card that gives you broadband (1.8Mbps) Internet access wherever there's a 3G mobile signal.

Tags: keyboard, typing, laptop, tablet

17 October 2006, 12:22

The Slingbox: UK inbound

Crave The Slingbox is a clever gadget that turns your home TV signal into an Internet stream that you can access from any networked PC -- so you can watched recorded programming or live TV on your laptop from your hotel.

Tags: product, ces, slingbox, sling

7 January 2006, 15:22

Hideous kinky: Canon MVX850i

Crave There are 800k of the little suckers jittering about, turning the light and colour of our world into a magnetic signal on DV tape in 16:9 mode. Whoa, check out the pixels on the MVX850i's CCD. The camcorder comes with a FireWire port which gives...

Tags: canon, models, camcorders, lcd

25 August 2005, 11:31

Archos AV700 TV: tuners in your sky rocket

Crave The AV700 TV receives digital TV with dual tuners, which work in tandem so that the signal received is absolutely top-notch. This thing is as phat as Oprah in the 80s. The world's first handheld, tuner-equipped personal video recorder has been...

Tags: archos technology, car, archos, tuners

4 May 2006, 11:21

Samsung Q1 Ultra HSDPA: UMPC broadband on the go

Crave Unlike the original Q1 and Q1 Ultra, this new model lets you jump on the Internet from absolutely anywhere there's a mobile phone signal. We've just taken an exclusive first look at the brand new broadband-enabled Samsung Q1 Ultra HSDPA, and we're...

Tags: samsung, battery, broadband, keyboard

19 December 2007, 12:12