Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence

EBook Description: From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object. Flow TV examines television in an age of technological, economic, and cultural convergence. Seeking to frame a new set of concerns for television studies in the 21st century, this collection of all new essays establishes television�s continued importance in a shifting media culture. Considering television and new media not as solely technical devices, but also as social technologies, the essays in this anthology insist that we turn our attention to the social, political, and cultural practices that surround and inform those devices' use. The contributors examine television through a range of critical approaches from formal and industrial analysis to critical technology studies, reception studies, political economy, and critiques of television's transnational flows. This volume grows out of the critical community formed around the popular online journal Flow: A Critical Form on Television and Media Culture (flowtv.org). It is ideal for courses in television studies or media convergence.

Four specific trends are driving the DVR industry: consumer content choice, consumer content control, personalization of content libraries, and the ability to transfer content from device-to-device and person-to-person. �Digital Video Recorders� features a macro and micro views of the already established yet still burgeoning DVR industry. As part of the NAB Executive Technology Briefing series, this book gives you a wealth of market knowledge, business models, case studies, and industry insignts explained in a non-technical fashion.

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Write to TV: Out of Your Head and onto the Screen by Martie Cook

Helps the burgeoning number of fledgling TV writers and couch potatoes with secret writing ambitions become the writers they've dreamed of and successfully navigate the mysterious world of television production.

PC Pro: Internet TV, January 2010 (UK)

PC Pro is the UKs biggest selling PC monthly magazine and your source of professional IT news, reviews and tests. With every issue of the DVD edition youll get free software applications and exclusive content!

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T3: TV Special, June 2010

T3 is the world�s no.1 gadget magazine, covering everything from MP3 players, to home cinema systems and games consoles. It�s packed with the latest tech news, reviews and features and delivers a one-stop shop for the gadget-obsessed tech-oholic.

Servicing Satellite TV Equipment

This is the definitive practical guide to fault-finding, troubleshooting and servicing satellite television equipment, both indoors and outdoors. It will take you through all areas of satellite television system servicing from the simplest fixed dish to fully motorised systems. From PAL to Mac to MPEG all contemporary systems are covered.

Satellite TV systems have been installed in a wide variety of locations, using a bewildering range of equipment. That equipment is beginning to need maintenance and repair. To cope with the volume and variety of work, Nick Beer has written the first guide to satellite TV which concentrates on what to look for and what to do when it goes wrong. This book is up to date and crammed with real-life experience, not theoretical data or manufacturer's ideal specs.

Nick Beer has already written the best-selling Servicing Audio and Hi-fi Equipment and is a technical correspondent for many UK and international journals such as Television. He also works as an engineer and teaches satellite servicing to technicians.

A practical guide to a new and important area for service engineers
Covers indoor and outdoor equipment
Written by an experienced author, teacher and engineer

The DVB-H Handbook: The Functioning and Planning of Mobile TV

A guide to implementing the DVB-H system for the carriage of MobileTV services, The DVB-H Handbook provides an overview of all aspects of the specification. Placing particular emphasis on the technical elements, it includes important information on the signalling and service discovery. The background, functioning, planning and optimisation of DVB-H are systematically explained for use in network planning and optimization. Subjects such as coding, different modes for channel delivery and protection in core and radio system are detailed. Giving examples on the practical interpretation of the DVB-H specifications, this book also describes the process behind the realization of the end-to-end system.

� Outlines the functioning, planning and optimization of the complete DVB-H system

� Spans topics from physical network planning and link layer specifications, to application ingredients such as EPGs and audiovisual streaming technologies

� Uses illustrations and selected case examples reflecting real-life practice to give greater understanding

� Functions as an overview of the topic, as well as a tutorial for implementing the system

� A must-read for beginners as well as established experts within the field of Mobile broadcasting

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