Broadcasting devices as used in agriculture and horticulture having a container and a rotary or oscillating distributor are fitted with a charge blender in the form of an upright modified Archimedean Screw driven by the distributor to lift, mix and blend charge material in the container so as to enable a charge of different particulate or powdered materials placed individually in the container to be blended into a homogeneous mix immediately prior to broadcasting. The charge blender conveniently...

Broadcasting stations send programs to subscribers via satellite scrambled signals. A subscriber inserts an IC card into a meter rate charging decoder to view/listen chargeable programs. Program codes are written in the IC card to determine fees to be paid to each station.

A technique for broadcasting data across a network is provided. An originating participant sends data to another participant, which in turn sends the data that it receives from a neighbor participant to its other neighbor participants. Communication in the broadcast network is controlled by a contact module that locates the neighbor participants to which the seeking participant can be connected and by a join module that establishes the connection between the neighbor participants and the seeking...

A system and method for broadcasting a presentation over a computer network to an online audience. The system comprises an integrated environment that leverages many of the features of Microsoft Corporation's NETSHOW.TM. server technology, along with Microsoft Corporation's POWERPOINT 2000.TM. presentation design application program to enable a presenter to broadcast a presentation to an online audience over a computer network, such as an intranet or the Internet. The system enables a live prese...

A digital tuner performs, when it receives a command to tune in on a digital broadcasting channel by a remote control signal, processing for tuning in on the digital broadcasting channel by the command. A broadcasting receiver enters a digital broadcasting received/video displayed state by the digital tuner. At this time, in an analog tuner, a local oscillation frequency on a channel at the time of viewing is not maintained but is changed and set to a frequency for selecting the highest channel ...

A wired television broadcasting system is disclosed in which a plurality of programme signals are made available on separate conductive paths to each of a plurality of programme selectors controllable by respective subscribers to the system, the conductive paths defining channels. In order to reduce cross-view coupling, the channels are arranged in one or more groups divided into a plurality of pairs of channels, each channel operating at the same nominal carrier frequency with the two channels ...

A PLL circuit compares a PCR with the output frequency of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), and returns a voltage value which is the result of the comparison to the VCO, so that a reference clock corresponding to the PCR is outputted from the VCO. A switch supplies a control voltage from the PLL circuit to the VCO when digital broadcasting is viewed, while feeding a fixed voltage from a fixed voltage power supply to the VCO when analog broadcasting is viewed, to stably output a clock having...

A remote control transmitter is provided with an AUDIO key for switching an audio mode in sound multiplex broadcasting and an ENTER key for determining various types of selections. When the ENTER key is operated in a state where the audio mode is temporarily selected by operating the AUDIO key, the state where the audio mode is temporarily selected is treated as the steady selection corresponding to setting on a menu screen.

Single processing of the first channel search using the analog broadcasting tuner enables not only analog broadcasting channel to be detected but also the existence of digital broadcasting channel to be estimated. Furthermore, the acquisition of information transmitted on a digital broadcasting channel can be made apart from the first channel search when the channel is selected (received) or when the second channel search is performed. As a result, the first channel search (overall channel searc...

Subscriber access to the television transmissions of a cable TV system or other wired program transmission is governed by switching means in the remotely controlled unit to which the subscriber's receiver is connected, which switching means is enabled or disabled in response to information coded on the power flow which energizes the controlled unit. The power to the controlled unit may be coded at the cable TV power supply in response to a separate modulated RF carrier signal transmitted to all ...