Industry leaders, moderated by EDN Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert, share their thoughts on consumer electronics: past-event post-mortems, current developments and future trends. Follow the How We See CE Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/HowWeSeeCE. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263.html?nid=3364 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:50:37 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1720049972.html?nid=3364 In the year since my original post to this blog, "Setting the standard in wireline home networking", our industry has devoted many engine... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/240049424.html?nid=3364 The 60GHz spectrum is the new hot topic in the wireless industry, but its origins and functions are still relatively unknown. This post aims to del... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1430045743.html?nid=3364 As wireless connectivity becomes an increasing preference across many consumer electronics product categories, the conversation about the potential... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/410045441.html?nid=3364 The recent GAO (General Accountability Office) Report on GPS (the Global Positioning System) brings up a number of relevant issues in sustaining an... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1180045318.html?nid=3364 For wired connectivity, HDMI has emerged as the enabling digital interface for HD in consumer electronics. The key to its success is the abili... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/550042855.html?nid=3364 Despite the promises of existing wireless HDTV standards, no standard has yet to successfully enable the wireless HDTV ecosystem. This situation ra... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/420039042.html?nid=3364 Readers of this blog are probably familiar with previous posts (here and here) that discussed some of the problems of the wired home networking ind... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1760035776.html?nid=3364 I often get asked why the wireline home networking market has failed (at least so far) to take off in the same way that the wireless home networkin... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1650027165.html?nid=3364 Last week I wrote a story in a rather pessimistic tone about some recent developments in the home networking industry. Today, I'll try to provide a... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/220026822.html?nid=3364 When I first talked in this blog about my views on the future of the networked Consumer Electronics (CE) industry, I tried to share my optimism abo... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1310013531.html?nid=3364 Information storage is a principal, "main street" factor in information processing systems, from large IT applications to smaller consume... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1510011351.html?nid=3364 [Moderator note: "Mass Storage: Flash, Magnetic, or Both?", which Joel Weiss discusses in the following writeup, will be the subject of m... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1530009153.html?nid=3364 When it comes to hard drives and solid state (flash) memory, can you see the future? I think the future is cooperative and collaborative;... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/290008829.html?nid=3364 Consumer electronics and the technologies that enable their evolution are interesting things. For example, how many people 20 years ago would have ... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/860008286.html?nid=3364 Let’s have a few thoughts about content consumption. This is probably the most critical and important part of the overall media ecosystem. H... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/900008090.html?nid=3364 I was very happy to very quickly say "yes" when Brian asked me to participate in this blog. It is a wonderful challenge and opportunity to ... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1560007956.html?nid=3364 After 32 years in the HDD (hard disk drive) industry focused on recording media, I find myself expanding my horizons. I’ve recently become pr... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1580007558.html?nid=3364 Last week I was attending a conference on IPTV in San Jose, and one of the keynote speakers, Charles "Kip" Compton, at Cisco, told an inter... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/720007472.html?nid=3364 I'm Chief Technical Officer for Digital Entertainment Products. I joined Texas Instruments in 1989 as a systems engineer wide-eyed about the op... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/120007212.html?nid=3364 I work at DS2, a company that develops Integrated Circuits for high-speed communications over power lines. During the last 7 years, I have been inv... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1900007190.html?nid=3364 Dr. Robert Adler, inventor of the TV wireless remote control (1956), died on February 15. He was 93. I’m certain that Dr Adler was both deli... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/1010007101.html?nid=3364 I also want to thank Brian for starting this ball rolling. With the roster of contributors that he is assembling, I’m certain that this will ... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/910007091.html?nid=3364 I have over 20 years' experience in digital signal/image/video/display processing and have a deep passion for what I call the “Visual Pro... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/620007062.html?nid=3364 Brian, I’m truly delighted and honored to participate on this blog. I hope to provide its readers with insights into various technologies, no... http://www.edn.com/blog/630000263/post/240007024.html?nid=3364 Welcome to How We See CE, EDN's latest blog! Moderated by Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert, who also contributes content to Brian'...