Real Digital is the brand name for a digital satellite television and radio service in the United Kingdom which is transmitted from SES S.A.'s Astra satellites located at 28.2° east (Astra 2A/2B/2D/1N) and Eutelsat's 28A satellite at 28.5°E. Real Digital also plans to launch in Ireland. The service ceased transmitting on 31 March 2012, promising to return in seven days. As of May 2012^[update], this has not yet happened.

Real Digital's main competitors are Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

Currently, Real Digital only offer free-to-air channels which have been available on other platforms for several years, however they intend to offer pay television packages by spring 2012 which will include Sky Sports 1 and 2 and a high definition version of Blackbelt TV. Subscription packages will be available on a month-by-month basis, without a contract or minimum subscription period. Additionally, pay-per-view services will be made available. Support for the BBC iPlayer and ITV Player video on demand services has also been announced.

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Wesley Maynor

Real (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal]), translated from Spanish as "royal", is a title historically used by sports clubs to designate a royal status.

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A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems represent information using a continuous function. Although digital representations are discrete, the information represented can be either discrete, such as numbers and letters or continuous, such as sounds, images, and other measurements.

The word digital comes from the same source as the word digit and digitus (the Latin word for finger), as fingers are used for discrete counting. It is most commonly used in computing and electronics, especially where real-world information is converted to binary numeric form as in digital audio and digital photography.

When data is transmitted, or indeed handled at all, a certain amount of noise enters into the signal. Noise can have several causes: data transmitted wirelessly, such as by radio, may be received inaccurately, suffer interference from other wireless sources, or pick up background noise from the rest of the universe. Microphones pick up both the intended signal as well as background noise without discriminating between signal and noise, so when audio is encoded digitally, it typically already includes noise.

Paul Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is best known for his pioneering work in high dynamic range imaging and image-based modelling and rendering.

Debevec received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1996; his thesis research was in photogrammetry, or the recovery of the 3D shape of an object from a collection of still photographs taken from various angles. In 1997 he and a team of students produced The Campanile Movie (1997), a virtual flyby of UC Berkeley's famous Campanile tower. Debevec's more recent research has included methods for recording real-world illumination for use in computer graphics; a number of novel inventions for recording ambient and incident light have resulted from the work of Debevec and his team, including the light stage, of which five or more versions have been constructed, each an evolutionary improvement over the previous.

Kenneth Y. Goldberg (born 1961) is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is an artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation.

Goldberg was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. Goldberg also received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990. He then taught in the department of computer science at the University of Southern California from 1991–1995 and was visiting faculty in 2000 at the MIT Media Lab. [1]

Goldberg and his students develop new algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing, Grasping and Assembly, with an emphasis on minimalist approaches that require a minimum of sensing and complexity. For his PhD dissertation, Goldberg developed the first algorithm for orienting (feeding) polygonal parts and proved that the algorithm can be used to orient any part up to rotational symmetry. He also patented the kinematically yielding gripper, a new robot gripper that complies passively to hold parts securely without sensing. Named IEEE Fellow in 2005, Goldberg co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and his work has resulted in six United States patents.