March 21, 2006 A Prism Business Media Publication  

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Top Story
UK cable company offers viewers HD alternative

HD Highlights
Red laser-based optical HD format debuts at CeBIT

Technicolor opens test center to evaluate digital cinema components

Interest in HD, flat panels boosts TV sales revenue

DISH Network launches local HD channel carriage in seven more cities

HD Showcase
Ascent Media Group brings secure post facility on line

MTV Networks Music Group launches HD Channel in Dolby Digital 5.1

Sound Off
Make the most of the '20Mb/s pipe' today, or face uncertainty tomorrow

A Glance At The Stats
Broadcast supply side confidence high, says IABM poll

Men, women willing to sacrifice for HD plasma, says survey

HD Products & Reviews
Cineflex introduces multi-sensor version of V14 Magnum MS

Anixe HD encoding station relies on Optibase MovieMaker

Snell & Wilcox rollout Quasar HD upconverter

T-VIPS to launch JPEG2000 HD backhaul over IP solution


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TOP STORY
UK cable company offers viewers HD alternative
Telewest launched the United Kingdom's first HD service March 10.


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HD HIGHLIGHTS
Red laser-based optical HD format debuts at CeBIT
NME last week announced the world's first red laser HD optical disc solution.

Technicolor opens test center to evaluate digital cinema components
Testing will identify projector and server configurations to be deployed during the Technicolor Digital Cinema's commercial beta test scheduled to begin in the first half of the year.

Interest in HD, flat panels boosts TV sales revenue
In 2005, sales of LCD TVs were up 137 percent when compared to figures from 2004.

DISH Network launches local HD channel carriage in seven more cities
The move brings to 12 the number of cities where DISH Network is making local television station HD service available via satellite.


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HD SHOWCASE
Ascent Media Group brings secure post facility on line
SGI servers, storage and networking drive faster parallel processing of HD, 2K, 4K and digital asset management for deliverables.

MTV Networks Music Group launches HD Channel in Dolby Digital 5.1
MHD is carrying music-based native-HD programming, including "MTV Unplugged", "VH1 Storytellers" and "CMT Crossroads."


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SOUND OFF
Make the most of the '20Mb/s pipe' today, or face uncertainty tomorrow
S. Merrill Weiss, winner of the NAB2006 Television Engineering Achievement Award, advises to use the full potential of the 6MHz DTV channel bandwidth today or else.


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A GLANCE AT THE STATS
Broadcast supply side confidence high, says IABM poll
A recent poll of IABM members showed many are confident about future prospects.

Men, women willing to sacrifice for HD plasma, says survey
Findings of a Roper Public Affairs poll sponsored by Pioneer Electronics finds men and women who said they'd go to surprising lengths for an HD plasma display.


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HD PRODUCTS & REVIEWS
Cineflex introduces multi-sensor version of V14 Magnum MS
The V14 Magnum MS brings together several imaging technologies including an HD camera, long focal length lens and infrared sensors.

Anixe HD encoding station relies on Optibase MovieMaker
MovieMaker HD supports 4:2:2 encoding at up to 150Mb/s.

Snell & Wilcox rollout Quasar HD upconverter
At the heart of Quasar is motion estimation technology based on Snell & Wilcox's Ph.C.

T-VIPS to launch JPEG2000 HD backhaul over IP solution
Use of the JPEG2000 compression in the T-VIPS TVG430 maximizes HD video quality and provides high error resiliency.


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