analogue

EC suggests using TV spectrum for WiMax

News UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased out, the European commissioner for information society and media has proposed. Noting that plans were already underway across Europe to open up the...

14 June 2007, 10:09

Death knell sounded for cassettes

News Following the demise of the floppy disk, it looks like analogue tape is about to meet a similar fate: Currys has announced it will no longer be stocking cassettes. Three years later, however, its star began to fade with the launch of the CD, and by...

9 May 2007, 12:28

News.blog: Dutch TV goes digital

News The Netherlands on Tuesday became the first country in the world to eliminate analogue television signals altogether and switch to digital. The Dutch government has handed the bandwidth freed up by the analogue switch-off over to Royal KPN NV, a...

13 December 2006, 10:32

TVs to get centre stage at tech fair

News Electronics manufacturers are hoping a looming cut-off of analogue TV signals in the US, Europe and parts of Japan together with slowly starting high-definition TV (HDTV) broadcasts will persuade consumers to exchange their old sets.

29 August 2007, 10:54

Google plans 'Wi-Fi on steroids'

News The white-space airwaves could become available in February 2009, when TV broadcasters switch from analogue to digital signals. In a compromise designed to mollify some interest groups opposed to expanding use of white-space spectrum, Google...

Tags: television, channels, class, wi fi

25 March 2008, 9:06

New DVDs spark copy-protection chaos

News Movies playing on a computer over this ordinary analogue connection will likely be downgraded to near-DVD quality. The standard analogue plug that connects most computers to monitors today doesn't support copy protection, and so is viewed as unsafe...

17 February 2006, 12:09

Mobile networks bid for larger spectrum

News Rancy said the switch from analogue to digital television -- expected to happen earlier in rich countries than in the developing world -- would free up big swathes of UHF spectrum because digital signals occupy less space than analogue.

20 November 2007, 8:39

Nintendo unveils Revolution controller

News Nintendo's revolutionary remote-like controller, with umbilically attached analogue stick One such peripheral is an analogue stick attachment with two shoulder buttons labelled Z1 and Z2. The analogue stick peripheral will come included with the...

16 September 2005, 10:59

UK still divided in the digital world

News Crucial to driving an awareness of digital communications among these groups is television and, although the message is starting to get through that digital television will soon be a necessity for those who want to watch once the analogue signal...

2 June 2006, 10:17

PlayStation2 looks pretty in pink

News The console will come with two matching pink analogue controllers and a pink 8MB memory card. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced the latest member of the PlayStation family on Monday -- a limited edition slimline PlayStation 2 in pink.

22 August 2006, 11:00

Sony unveils new hi-def camcorder

News However, improved power consumption by CCDs (charged-couple devices) -- image sensors that convert analogue to digital off-chip and produce less visual noise -- have brought those kinds of assertions about CMOS chips up for debate.

8 September 2006, 11:29

Let the new sound era commence

News ECMs are analog devices, which mean they capture real-world sound waves with a membrane and transmit them to an analogue-to-digital converter. It's time the microphone got an upgrade, according to audio chipmaker Akustica.

28 February 2006, 8:53

Roxio software targets iPod users

News CD Spin Doctor, meanwhile, is a tool for digitising music from analogue sources such as tapes and LPs, and MusicMagic Mixer analyses songs to automatically generate playlists. Digital-media company Roxio is offering a software suite designed to let...

10 June 2005, 10:03

Photos: Inside Windows Vista beta 2

News These include a slide show, an analogue clock and an RSS reader. The tweaks to build 5381 appear to be aimed at a wider consumer market, providing first-time users of the new operating system with a smoother install, a small selection of desktop...

24 May 2006, 13:07

News.blog: Sony upgrades PSP

News Looks like anyone waiting for a more robust PSP upgrade (with oft-requested additions such as onboard flash storage, a second analogue stick or a touchscreen, for instance) will have to wait until 2008 or beyond.

12 July 2007, 10:12