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Popular Mechanics
October 2008
Rob Sabin |
Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense.   |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Television's Digital Dilemma If the struggle over digital television in the U.S. were made into a TV show, it would be a tale of intrigue, backstabbing and hidden motives. |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
Frederik Balfour |
TV In China: The Door Opens A Crack Beijing is letting in foreign media investors. But it's still leery of Western programs. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Unconverted Masses The switch to digital television is supposed to be simple. It's not |
BusinessWeek
January 23, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Analog TV: Fade To Black On Feb. 17, 2009 Congress will decree that broadcasters must end analog transmissions on that date and switch to the digital technology they have been phasing in for several years. If you are planning to buy a television, make sure it's digital-ready. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2005
Tekla S. Perry |
Digital TV's 100-Meter Dash China's huge TV industry faces a 2008 deadline. Olympics fans will be watching events unfold in crisp high-definition television, thanks to a state-of-the-art digital TV infrastructure the Chinese government is now furiously assembling. |
Home Theater
August 31, 2007 |
U.K. Supermarket Sells STB for $20 The U.S. will award coupons to households to buy digital-to-analog conversion boxes. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2007
Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Pushes Educational Outreach New legislation would mandate consumer programs by broadcasters, retailers and the FCC. |
AskMen.com
January 14, 2003
Peter Richmond |
HDTV: Coming Soon To Your Living Room Governments around the world are forcing broadcasters to convert to both digital and high-definition pictures simultaneously. Broadcasters will have to squeeze more picture detail into the same bandwidth they were using for analog television. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
House Considers Subsidizing DTV Transition A new proposal aims to speed broadcasters' move to digital and open spectrum for advanced wireless services. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Robert M. Rast |
The Dawn of Digital TV Analog television prepares to meet its doom, vacating valuable real estate in the radio spectrum -- and the band rush begins |
Home Theater
August 27, 2007 |
Free Analog Cable Service Urged A coalition of small cable operators is urging Congress to let them provide free analog cable service following the switchover to digital television broadcasting. |
InternetNews
November 21, 2005
Roy Mark |
House Approves DTV Bill Television broadcasters have three years to clear analog spectrum for wireless broadband providers and first responders. |
Home Theater
September 12, 2003
Gary Merson |
FCC Approves "Plug'n'Play" The "plug and play" agreement will allow consumers to connect digital televisions directly into cable systems, without a set-top-box. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Digital Dilemma Converting to digital television is supposed to be simple, but it's not. |
Home Theater
September 14, 2007 |
FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2006
Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk Congress finally sent legislation Wednesday to President Bush that sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the end of analog broadcasting in the United States. After that, television sets must have digital tuners to receive an over-the-air signal. |
Home Theater
June 16, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
FCC Gets 900,000 DTV Panic Calls The Federal Communications Commission has fielded more than 900,000 calls since analog television broadcasting was shut down on Friday June 12. |
InternetNews
September 16, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Are We Ready for DTV? After a DTV test launch in North Carolina, a House subcommittee questions the country's preparedness for February's nationwide transition. |
Reason
February 2006
Julian Sanchez |
Couch Potato Subsidies The Senate agreed in November to spend up to $3 billion retrofitting old television sets to guarantee that every man, woman, and child in the U.S. would be able to enjoy high-quality digital television. |
Home Theater
February 29, 2008 |
Secret Shoppers Find DTV Confusion Retailers are not giving consumers accurate information about the transition to digital television, according to a report issued by U.S. PIRG, the federation of state-based Public Interest Research Groups. |
CIO
November 15, 2005
Grant Gross |
Help for Emergency Responders The push for digital TV would hasten better communications. |
Popular Mechanics
May 5, 2008
Glenn Derene |
Digital Transition Looms, but Do Americans Have a Right to TV? A look at how much it costs to get everyone on board the digital bandwagon, and how the cost compares to what the government spends on other things. |
InternetNews
March 12, 2007
Roy Mark |
Feds Tune In DTV Subsidy Plan All U.S. households will be eligible for two $40 coupons to help defray the cost of digital converter boxes that analog television sets will need to view over-the-air broadcasting after Feb. 17, 2009. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Comcast, Time Warner, And The Future Of The Cable Box Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable is well underway. The $45 billion deal cements Comcast's position as the country's largest cable provider and the First Among Equals of our national cable cartel. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Raj Karamchedu |
Does China Have the Best Digital Television Standard on the Planet? China's new digital television broadcasts deliver a high-definition picture to the living room -- and the reception won't break up on moving trains and buses, either. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Talking Back to the Tube: The Future of Interactive Television How will the brave new world of interactive television change society? Tune in at a later date to find out. |
Home Theater
June 19, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
Who Cares if Analog TV Goes Dark? The Consumer Electronics Association has some news for the 33.6 million of you who use your television to view over-the-air TV programming - get a life, or rather, get a new Digital TV. |
Home Theater
June 30, 2009 |
Broadcast DTV May Poach Cable Customers More than half of viewers say they may switch to over-the-air digital television from cable or satellite service. |
PC World
May 2003
Anne Kandra |
Consumer Watch: Is It Time for a High-Definition TV? Your next monitor could double as a sophisticated entertainment device. |
Sports Central
January 9, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Network Rolls Out With Bait and Switch On January 1, 2009, Major League Baseball launched its long-awaited Major League Baseball Network on major cable broadcast providers throughout U.S. television markets. |
Home Theater
February 25, 2008 |
Feds Mail Analog-TV Adapter Coupons Your $40 federal subsidy designed to keep your old TV going is in the mail -- if you've requested it. |
Home Theater
November 14, 2008 |
Times Are Hard? Raise Cable Rates! Home prices are plummeting, people are maxing out their credit cards, the stock market is in convulsions, health care costs are out of control, and the economy is rocketing into recession. America needs a morale booster. What better time to raise cable television rates? |
InternetNews
May 19, 2005
Tim Gray |
Time Warner Bets on Internet Bidding Time Warner Cable struck a deal with BIAP, a privately owned company based in Plano, Texas, to let customers make Internet bids through their televisions. |
| AskMen.com |
No More TV For Millions More than 2 million households are in danger of seeing their major broadcast TV channels disappear into a fuzz of static when analog service ends Friday, according to surveys. |
Home Toys
June 2004
Jack Urrutia |
Modulating on Digital Cable Systems Even though digital cable may present interesting challenges, it is still possible to distribute video sources like security cameras around the house using a video modulator and the existing cable TV wiring. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's Ready to Disrupt Again An analyst notes that Apple is working on a customized television service. |
AskMen.com
March 9, 2003
Bernie Alexander |
TV Ratings Demystified Have you ever wondered why some shows remain on television while others are yanked faster than donuts at your local Krispy Kreme? It's all about whether audiences are interested enough for networks to justify keeping certain shows on the air. This is measured with TV ratings. |
Home Theater
June 21, 2007 |
CableCARD Cost to Hit Comcast Customers Comcast has become the first cable operator to announce that it will pass on one particular cost of CableCARD-capable boxes to its subscribers. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Could Cable Get Boxed In? New FCC mandates could ultimately hurt the cable multisystems operators. The commission wants consumers to be able to purchase their own set-top boxes, theoretically to reduce the MSOs' control over the entire subscription process. Investors, take note. |
Bank Technology News
May 2001
Karen Epper Hoffman |
Banks Get The Big Picture on iTV As interactive television makes a debut in more American homes, financial experts say iTV's potential impact on banking is worth a second look... |
Home Theater
November 11, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
NY Tries Brief Analog TV Shutoff Analog television channels went dark for two minutes in the New York metropolitan area a few weeks ago, in an early trial run for the DTV transition, scheduled for February 2009. |
U.S. CPSC
August 8, 2002 |
Motorola Recall of Digital Cable Set-Top Boxes Pins in the rear of the box that connect to the power cord could break, which could pose an electric shock hazard to consumers. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010
Jim Mueller |
Disney Is Getting Dangerous Disney's shift away from studio revenue and toward media, relying more and more on television advertising and fees paid by cable operators, might have come at the worst possible time. |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Drowning In Remotes? Thank Cable Operators It may be too soon to replace your cable set-top box. |
Bank Technology News
December 2009
John Adams |
Banks' Mad Men Prep for Addressable Ads Addressable television advertising allows banks to get more bang for the buck and makes television a potential source of innovative bank marketing for the first time in years. |
Home Theater
March 25, 2008 |
Cable Ops Harass CableCARD Users Major cable operators are now cutting off program options to viewers who opted to dump their cable boxes for CableCARDS. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2007
Roy Mark |
FCC Pushes for Competitive Set-Top Market The Federal Communications Commission denies Comcast request for delay in separating security features from set-top digital receivers. |
BusinessWeek
February 7, 2005
Jay Greene |
Microsoft May Be A TV Star Yet After a decade of stumbles, the giant is winning over cable and telecom players |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Unchained From The Cable Box The FCC is breaking the cable hold on set-top boxes and letting rivals step in. |
