West control solutions launches new videos to explain important temperature control technology

West control solutions (http://www.west-cs.co.uk/) published a series of informative and explanatory videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nun33W0ByME), the first of its kind to discuss temperature-control technologies.  The videos will specify as an advantage for customers and the most efficient temperature control solutions (http://www.west-cs.com/products/c/process-and-temperature...) to install.

The first video (http://youtu.be/Nun33W0ByME) in the series features Ian Parnell (http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ian-parnell/6/27b/691), Director of technical support (Europe) under Western control solutions, explaining on/off and proportional control in detail and clearly outlines the differences between the two.

Ian explains where the two types of controls can be used and how proportional controls can be used with devices that only have either activated or can be disabled.  Ian gets even with topics such as systems as one / the process vibration can affect the level of control, and whether the user has to compromise the life expectancy of the components, or the accuracy of the control, if you use this method.

Since both systems forward different considerations, this discussion is useful for anyone who either is type of the control system considering but has not yet a full understanding of the factors involved and the differences between them developed.

No other manufacturer in the control systems industry has so far the audience with a video of its kind which discuss and explain how taxes work systems and their suitability for a viewer application.

The next two videos in the series will include different types of temperature control alarms and look in detail at the alarm function inhibitor. The videos answer important questions and concerns surrounding their respective topics and provide a great resource for the explanation of how the technologies with examples of work practice work.

For more information, please contact: Chloë Garrett, marketing communications manager, West control solutions Tel: + 44 (0) 1273 810116 (Tel: % 2B 44% 20% 280% 29% 201273% 20810116) fax: 01273 609990 Email:chloe.garrett@West-CS.com Web: www.West-CS.co.uk

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Time Warner Cable launches iPad application that shows live TV in the home

Time Warner Cable Inc. is launching an iPad application that plays live TV, becoming the first cable company to do so. The app will be free to download on Tuesday morning, but it will only work for people who subscribe to both video and Internet service from the New York-based cable company. Even then, it only works in the home, when the iPad is connected to the company's cable modem via a Wi-Fi router.

Rob Marcus, the company's chief operating officer and president, said the app will play 30 basic cable channels in high definition to start, but that number should expand soon. "For all intents and purposes ... this enables you to convert any room in a house into a TV room," Marcus said. Other major cable companies have iPad apps that play video on demand or act like big remotes. Comcast Corp., the largest, has promised that its app will play live TV before the end of the year. Cablevision Systems Corp. has said it will have one even sooner.

Time Warner Cable's app doesn't work as a remote control, nor does it give access to video on demand or shows stored on a digital video recorder in the home. Marcus said these features will be added later. He also said laptops, smart phones and smart TVs could all eventually get apps, too. Companies such as Netflix Inc. and Hulu Inc. already have apps that stream movies and TV shows to the iPad, bypassing, in some respects, cable companies. However, the apps don't show live TV.

Some people have started cancelling cable in favor of Internet viewing, but the numbers appear to be small so far. "Increasingly, customers want more flexibility in the way they view content, whether that's on different devices or in different rooms of the house," Marcus said. Time Warner Cable has 12.4 million video subscribers, making it the second-largest cable company in the U.S. and the fourth-largest pay-TV company, behind Comcast and satellite companies DirecTV Group Inc. and Dish Network Corp.

A device called the Slingbox, which connects to a cable or satellite set-top box, has for years let pay-TV subscribers watch their TV channels through an Internet connection. There's an iPad app that lets them receive the picture on an iPad as well. The maker of the Slingbox is now Dish Network, which has also built the "slinging" capability into a high-end set-top box. The Slingbox and Time Warner Cable's system work very differently. The Slingbox "reads" the TV signal in the subscriber's home and sends it out on the Internet. Time Warner Cable, meanwhile, broadcasts the TV signal over the Internet into subscribers' homes.

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