Introduction to Digital Home

Have you ever heard of this term "Digital Home". Do you know that how many important technologies will be involved? Now, this blog will be dedicated to provide a series of articles for this topic. It will help you to get out of the fog and get into the fun for the digital home.

Chapter 1: Signal flow for a digital Home

The so-called digital home, to be short, is to use the digital signal processing technology to handle all of the home entertainment issues. Digital signal processing technology has be around for many years. It has shown its capability to prevail over the old analog world. First, you got a computer system. Then, you got some networking devices. Now, you are heading forward the digital home entertainment stage. In addition to the new features brought up by the digital technology, the most important thing is that digital home will make your life much more convenient than before. Right here, let me describe some of the advantages:
(1) easiness for storage,
(2) convenience for sharing,
(3) Portable,
(4) Reusable technology,
(5) VLSI design capability, that will bring down the system cost much more.

The future digital home will be built upon a computer. This computer will be the center for the digital technology just like picture 1:

Picture 1: Signal flow for digital home.

The digital technology surrounding the computer can be classified as the following four categories: input, output, networking and storage.
The output devices include the LCD TV, Plasma TV
The networking device can be any networking equipment or device to realize the broadband connection.
The storage device can be the hard disk, flash memory or any other technology.

The last one, and often so easy to be forgotten, is the input technology. The author invented the Studio Commander technology that will solve all of the input problem at one shot. Just keep reading and you will see.