Back in 2009, the broadcast television industry moved from analog technology to digital, paving the way for many other industries to follow suit. The security industry, for once, was ahead of the ...

The working life of security devices like card readers and cameras has tended to be 10 to 15 years or more. Whether or not to replace them depends on the bigger picture context. For companies having a ...

Why doesn’t this kind of stuff ever happen to us? One lucky day back in high school, [Dave Sieg] stumbled upon a room full of new equipment and a guy standing there scratching his head. [Dave]’s ...

These days, you get a fantastic camera with the purchase of just about any modern smartphone. [Abe] missed some of the charm ...

The TW9966 is an integrated circuit with four-channel analog video decoders and analog video encoder intended for automotive applications. These four high quality NTSC/PAL/SECAM video decoders convert ...

Following are the encoding variables for the analog NTSC, PAL and SECAM broadcasting and recording formats. For digital formats, see video format. PAL and SECAM are still used in some countries. VHS ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

In a digital world, is there any reason to consider an analog camcorder? Not unless you're an artist seeking a fuzzy, old-fashioned look in your videos, a veteran shooter with piles of analog tapes of ...

The TW9966 includes four high quality NTSC/PAL/SECAM video decoders that convert analog composite video signal to digital component YCbCr data for automotive applications. Each channel contains a ...

There seems to be a persistent myth floating around the board rooms of the movie companies and Congress that analog content is the boogie man of music and video piracy. In fact they're so paranoid ...

Noise is defined as an unwanted parasitic signal superimposed on the wanted signal. The effect of the noise on the reproduced picture is expressed as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). As a signal passes ...

David leads the Hardware team at CNET, covering phones, wearables, laptops, TVs, streaming, future tech and more. We provide helpful, expert reviews, advice and videos on what to buy and how to get ...