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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/11/euro_hd_habits
Only one in five households in Western Europe own an HD TV today, and while that figure is expected to jump to 85 per cent by 2012, most of us will still
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be watching standard-definition content. So claims market watcher Screen Digest, which pinpointed the poor penetration of HD into Europe on a sparsity of free-to-view HD TV channels, especially over terrestrial broadcast networks. Only Sweden has terrestrially broadcast HD channels, though the UK and France may soon follow suit. That leaves the vast majority of Europe's 100 HD channels only available through satellite and a much smaller proportion through cable. Today, only 1.7 per cent of households in Western Europe have the kit to receive and watch HD broadcasts. Come 2012 that figure will have risen to just under 17 per cent. We'll have to wait until 2015 for the widespread availability of free-to-air HD channels to boost HD viewing into the mainstream, Screen Digest forecast. By 2018, however, we won't be watching anything else,
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/09/fujitsu_hd_train_simulator/
Writing down the serial number of the 10.47 to Chichester in a notepad while standing on a cold platform is all well and good, but now you can pretend
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to be the actual train driver, thanks to Fujitsu, which has developed the world’s first HD virtual railway. Well, sort of. The system, developed by Fujitsu and simulation specialist Ongakukan, coaches future train drivers who sit in a purpose-built loco. Drivers are presented with hi-def video shot on real train lines. The images can be played back at varying speeds to represent the velocity of the engine. Presumably, leaves on the line isn’t one of the settings... Fujitsu said that because the system provides accurate responses to the operator’s movements, such as slamming on the brakes, the trainee train driver receives “an unprecedented level of realism”. The company claimed this gives a “better approximation of the operational environment” than provided by existing driver-training systems, which tend to rely on computer-generated gra
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