television

.Net (C#) Detect if a television is connected

Anyone know how to detect if a television is currently connected to a PC in c#? Cheers ...

Any sample television databases out there?

I am building a small front-end for a television client. I know the basic database structure but do not want to spend manually inserting all the channel names and show names and timings into the database. Are there any sample databases that I can just use? For instance, I am looking for a database containing tv related information with a...

Programming of TV, replicatable in Drupal / Javascript?

I was watching TV and wondering what programming languages get the continuous digital video to the TV. I am assuming it is on the receiver. But the major question is that could this be reproducible using JavaScript (JQuery) or Drupal? And to be clear, the end result would be a site that simply displays continuous video in full screen t...

WPF MediaElement pauses when trying to play Windows Media Center recording

I have an WPF application that starts a live tv recording using Windows Media Center, using the Windows Media Center SDK, waits 2 minutes and then plays the currently recording file (.wtv) in a WPF MediaElement. The problem is that the video visual will freeze and it is not consistent on when it happens. I have looked into it and discov...

Generating 3D TV stereoscopic output programmatically

Do you know what would be the best approach to generate 3D output for one of these new "3D ready" televisions from software. Our application have some nice 3D visualizations, we want these to look nice. Also, how feasible is it to generate it from a Flash (Flex) app. ...

Display On-Screen Television Graphics During Live Broadcasts

How and with what software do major television companies display on-screen graphics during their programs? For example: On ESPN, how do they produce the news ticker on the bottom (both graphically and from a source code point of view), create and display the scores of sports, and update and show selected stats on the fly? ...

set-top box programming

Hi all, I want to know how can one get started with programming for set top boxes? Will all the hype about Apple TV, Google TV and all, I have not seen any directions on how one can get started with writing applications for these devices? Any pointers would be really helpful. Thanks in advance. ...