Broadcasters: We Need Full Spectrum To Get Full Retrans Value Nov 19, 2009
"I understood several individuals in your group to assert that all broadcasters require a 19.4 megabits per second bit stream in order to have sufficient leverage to secure financial payments in retransmission negotiations, and that it is only by virtue of the digital transmission and the ability to utilize the entire bit stream from broadcasting thatbroadcasters are now receiving significant payments from multichannel video providers for their retransmission rights.". Broadcasters are... (Multichannel News)
Levin: Not Talking About Spectrum Would Disserve Public Nov 7, 2009
Levin said the conversations "originated with broadcasters," some of whom recognized that had "more spectrum than they needed to deliver an economically efficient bit stream.". The Association of Maximum Service Television invited Levin to talk to its board, one of the conversations that spurred all the press attention. (Multichannel News)
Updated: Researchers present MRAM-based FPGA architecture Oct 3, 2009
Torres continued: "Most FPGAs are currently SRAM-based. In these devices, configuration memory is distributed throughout the chip. Each memory point has to be readable independently because each of these points is used to drive a transistor's gate or a Lookup table (LUT) input. Nevertheless, for writing operation, the configuration memory is organized as a classical memory array. Speed limitation of the configuration is linked to the size of the words that the memory can write at a time.... (EETimes)
Sirius XM Bait & Switch? Mar 25, 2009
I too locked in thinking I was going to be getting the 128k bit stream and was very disappointed in the downgrade. I\;ve been a shareholder since 2001 and am not happy to see this. (Multichannel News)
