Still cameras after all these years

Article Abstract:

Digital cameras are becoming necessary tools for Web and CD-ROM production developers. Interested buyers are instructed to consider resolution, picture capacity, storage system, low-light sensitivity and manual controls when choosing a digital camera. They should also evaluate the camera's size, weight and feel. Buyers focused on picture quality should consider lens and image sensor quality in addition to resolution capabilities. They should also pay close attention to each camera's bundled software capabilities which can often distinguish price-performance ratios between models. Most digital cameras offer varying resolution levels with higher resolutions often costing significantly more. Buyers that expect to be shooting mostly indoors are advised to consider low-light sensitivity which is measured by the camera's ISO rating number. Most midrange digital cameras feature low ISO ratings anywhere from 50 to 100.

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Who will own the set-top?

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Hardware and software vendors are battling to own the set-top box market, the winner of which will control the market for interactive content development. WebTV, currently the most glamorous among the contenders, has lured less than half a million users, which makes it easily dwarfed by satellite TV, with 8 million subscribers, and by cable TV, with about 70 million. The conversion of analog boxes to digital ones will probably take 10 years but interactive software developers can take heart in the emergence of the next-generation of digital cable-TV boxes that will have much more computing power than the analog boxes. General Instruments' forthcoming DCT5000+ will have a 170MHz processor and 14MB of memory while Scientific Atlanta's Explorer 2000 comes with the PowerTV OS and CreativeEdge, a developer's program. Microsoft is working on a Windows CE-based version of WebTV.

Radio & TV communications equipment, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, CATV Addressable Converters, Forecasts and trends, Industry trend, Set-top boxes (Television), Set-top internet box

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Camera coup d'etat

Article Abstract:

A dozen megapixel digital cameras from top camera manufacturers are presented. Eleven of the cameras come with built-in LCD screens, but the way the screens display the images varies among the cameras. In some of the cameras the LCD screens can be used not only to view the images but to capture them as well. All cameras come with exposure modes and auto focus, but unlike film cameras, there is considerable delay before the camera actually takes the picture, the delay depending upon the lighting conditions and subject distance. The cameras use either SmartMedia or CompactFlash cards for storage. The cards fit inside the cameras. Software for uploading digital photographs comes with the cameras and is in general easy to use. Some of the software contain utilities for setting camera properties and for operating the cameras directly from a PC.

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