How We See CE
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.
Can You See the Future?
When it comes to hard drives and solid state (flash) memory, can you see the future? I think the future is cooperative and collaborative; in other words, we’re going to move beyond the past competition between HDD and SSD to a more cooperative and collaborative environment. The reason for this is simple—people have a range of storage needs, and different storage needs creat ...... Read More
Comments (1)"Connections" and Consumer Electronics
Consumer electronics and the technologies that enable their evolution are interesting things. For example, how many people 20 years ago would have thought I would be typing this post at 36,000 feet somewhere above the 50th parallel? Did anyone care that they could not do something like this back then? Admittedly 20 years ago, I could have cared less about being able to use a PC on an airplane and ...... Read More
Comments (0)Content Consumption And Ecosystem Standardization
Let’s have a few thoughts about content consumption. This is probably the most critical and important part of the overall media ecosystem. Having the best content creation and delivery is not enough; the consumption end of the chain must also be most carefully addressed. What works in the lab must also work 24/7/52 in the home. Consumers, used to watching no-failure TV so far, have a very l ...... Read More
Comments (0)dicas & MPEGIF’s Sebastian Moeritz: An Introduction
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 come up with interesting thoughts and meaningful comments regarding our industry, in order to inform the tremendously broad readership of Brian's latest blog project. I do not want to waste too much of your time and bore you with what I have done or what I am d ...... Read More
Comments (0)IDEMA's Joel Weiss: An Introduction
After 32 years in the HDD (hard disk drive) industry focused on recording media, I find myself expanding my horizons. I’ve recently become president of IDEMA, the trade association for the storage industry. I’ve had a long history with IDEMA; I was on the Board of Directors from 1990–2000, and Chairman of the Board from 1997–2000. Like myself, IDEMA once focused exclusi ...... Read More
Comments (1)My Kid And TiVo
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 interesting story about how kids today experience TV. The story mirrors my own kid's experience, so I'll borrow it and pretend that I actually made it up. My son, who is two and half years old, has no idea about the concept of TV broadcasting schedules; he is so use ...... Read More
Comments (1)Texas Instruments' Jeremiah Golston: An Introduction
I'm Chief Technical Officer for Digital Entertainment Products. I joined Texas Instruments in 1989 as a systems engineer wide-eyed about the opportunity to join a small start-up group, ironically in the memory products division, working on a new processor architecture for improved definition TV.We had plans to grow with the worldwide transition to HDTV as standards finalized over the next couple o ...... Read More
Comments (2)DS2's Chano Gómez: An Introduction
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 involved in different areas at DS2; System Architecture Design (where I was involved in the initial design of our 45Mbps and 200Mbps powerline chipsets), Test Engineering, Technical Support, and Technical Marketing (which is my main activity now). I have a ...... Read More
Comments (9)Button, Button: Who's Got (A Clue About) The Button?
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 delighted and dismayed at what happened to his invention. Delighted that consumers can not only change channels, but can now control an increasing number of audio/video sources and destinations. And this leads to the dismay – the remote has gone from ...... Read More
Comments (0)Analog Devices’ Denis Labrecque: An Introduction
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 go in several interesting directions. My particular slant on “How We See CE” will be primarily from an audio perspective, but, as Brian knows, I have no end of opinions on everything, as I have been consuming electronic products for quite ...... Read More
Comments (0)Marvell's Nikhil Balram: An Introduction
I have over 20 years' experience in digital signal/image/video/display processing and have a deep passion for what I call the “Visual Processing Pipeline.” This process starts with the creation of a visual element (pixel) either from a natural source such as a camera or an artificial source such as a graphics model, and it culminates in the resulting response in the human visual syst ...... Read More
Comments (0)Intellon's Andreas Melder: An Introduction
Brian, I’m truly delighted and honored to participate on this blog. I hope to provide its readers with insights into various technologies, not necessarily only those with which I am associated today. My story is probably a bit unique, but then again, perhaps its uniqueness makes it somewhat acceptable and commonplace in the ever-changing technology landscape. Born in Germany and adopted by ...... Read More
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