Month: January 2004

Internet Radio Tuner

iMuse Electronics Home of the Internet Radio – iAPlayer
From the site:
iAPlayer connects to the Internet through your home network. It allows you to play your conventional and compressed music CDs (in MP3 and mp3PRO formats); can play back digital files stored on your PC and is specifically designed to connect to the Internet to stream digital music from a world of online sources: radio stations, music charts and more.

Digital Video Broadcast Stream Analysis

dvbsnoop – A DVB Stream Analyzer Tool

dvbsnoop is a DVB / MPEG stream analyzer program, which enables you to watch (live) stream information in human readable form.

Its purpose is to debug, dump or view digital stream information (e.g. digital television broadcasts) send via satellite, cable or terrestrial. Streams can be SI, PES or TS. Basically you can describe dvbsnoop as a “swiss army knife” analyzing program for dvb, mhp, dsm-cc or mpeg – similar to TCP network sniffer programs likesnoop on Sun Solaris or tcpdump under Linux.

Vinyl video discs

CED Magic – The RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc Web Site

From the site:
Capacitance Electronic Discs

This web site pertains to Capacitance Electronic Discs or CED’s, a consumer video format on grooved vinyl discs that was marketed by RCA in the 1980’s. This is the home site for the RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc FAQ and the CED Title Database. Additional information on the RCA VideoDisc System will appear here as it is prepared.

WE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE

Media Carta: Adbusters

We, the undersigned, are troubled by the way information flows and the way meaning is produced in our society.

WE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE in what we are seeing, hearing and reading: too much infotainment and not enough news; too many outlets telling the same stories; too much commercialism and too much hype. Every day, this commercial information system distorts our view of the world.

WE HAVE LOST FAITH …