Audio News for March 5, 2010

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Mandatory 3D Formats for Home Use Announced – HDMI Licensing has announced HDMI specification version 1.4a, featuring enhancements for 3D applications including mandatory formats for movies, broadcast and gamed as well as the 3D formats referred to as Top-and-Bottom and Side-by-Side Horizontal.  Devices will be able to deliver 3D content over HDMI 1.4a connections in these three mandatory formats: For movies: Frame packing of 1080p @ 23.93/24Hz, for broadcast: Side-by-Side Horizontal – 1080i @ 50 of 59.94/60Hz, and games: frame packing – 720p @ 50 or 59.94/60Hz.

CBS and Sony Unveil New 3D Consumer Research Center – “The Sony 3D Experience” at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will focus on consumer preferences and perceptions toward 3D programming, and how broadcasters and studios can best deliver 3D contect for viewing both in and out of the home. The facility will have two zones: 3D theatrical entertainment, previewing the latest 3D motion picture releases; and 3D home entertainment, which will demonstrate the newest trends in 3D in the home, including 3D compatible HDTVs, Blu-ray 3D players and titles, and PlayStation3 systems. There will also be information on the upcoming launch of the ESPN 3D Network and the new 3D channel joint venture by Discovery Communications, IMAX and Sony.

LG Electronics Promotes Smart Grid Technology
– The world’s second-largest maker of flat-screen TVs is developing smart grid technology as more countries recognize the urgent need to fight global warming and to save energy. LG plans to release smart grid solutions beginning the last half of 2001, for commericla building as well as homes. A smart grid is a modernized electricity transmission and distribution system involving increased use of digital information and control technology. They rely on seamless interaction between power transmission and distribution facilities, and IT and advanced communications. Their goal is to minimize both peak and overall energy use, allowing people and companies to save money.

YouTube Adds Auto-Captioning for Videos – YouTube has launched auto-captioning of their videos using Google Speech-to-text algorithms to automatically generate video captions when requested by viewers. The owner of the video can also download them, check and improve them and upload the corrected versions. Viewers will have the ability to translate the captions to any one of 50 different languages, but for now only English audio can be captioned. A clearly-spoken voice track is required; those with background noise or muffled voices won’t work.

Top Asian Manufacturers Accused of Price-Fixing Optical Disc Drives in U.S
. – The U.S. Department of Justice has filed subpoenas against Samsung, Sony, LG, Hitachi and Toshiba for entering into an illegal agreement to fix prices of the disc drives used in CD, DVD and Blu-ray players and to prevent competitors from entering the market. The defendents and their co-conspirators control over 90% of the multibillion dollar a year market in disc drive sales. One attorney said that in Asia price fixing cartels are common, and that it has become a cyclical practice to keep new technology prices high until older technologies are phased out.

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