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Popular Mechanics
July 25, 2008
Glenn Derene |
The Real Story of HDTV Standards--There Aren't Any: Buzzword When you turn on a high-definition broadcast, you assume that your TV will come to life with the crispest, sharpest picture imaginable. But the fact is, hi-def doesn't always mean high quality.   |
Home Theater
April 23, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
VOOM Doom Brings DIRECTV Boom A week before VOOM satellite service is discontinued, DirecTV offers a deal to VOOM customers. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2007
Brendan Mathews |
DirecTV Dishes Out High-Def The satellite-TV provider has a leg up in a tough industry, thanks to its aggressive focus on HDTV. Investors, take note. |
Home Theater
August 5, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Satellite Providers Step Up HD Offerings Both DirecTV and the Dish Network announced last week that they would offer viewers more HD channels. Dish also announced it would do video on demand in 1080p. |
Home Theater
March 24, 2008 |
Satellite Providers Can Ax Local HD Local stations suffered a setback in the transition to digital television last week when the Federal Communications Commission ruled that satellite providers needn't carry local signals in HD till 2013. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
Get The Most From Your HDTV While some cable and satellite companies are beginning to work HD into their lineups, one new satellite service, VOOM, was created with HD expressly in mind. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2008
Joel Johnson |
How to Get the Best HDTV When Satellite Carriers Degrade Quality Over-the-air HD signals tend to be of very high quality -- and they are free. All you need to receive them is an HDTV and an antenna. |
PC World
May 2004
Yardena Arar |
HDTV Answer Guide Ready for next-generation television? Before you take the high-definition high dive, read this guide to the services, the sets, and more. |
PC World
August 2006
Yardena Arar |
HDTV: Is Now the Best Time to Buy? Deciding when to move to high-definition TV involves more than just the set. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2006
Joel Johnson |
HDTV Guidebook All you need to know, in plain English, about finding and setting up a great HDTV. |
Home Theater
December 6, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
Even more HDTV from VOOM The third satellite provider shows it's no also-ran as it gets ready to beef up its already hefty HD channel lineup. The latest order? Five more geostationary telecommunications satellites from Lockheed Martin. |
PC World
June 2004
Anne Kandra |
The Cable-or-Satellite Conundrum TV lovers finally have a real choice. Here's how to pick the right cable or satellite service. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
David Lee Smith |
DirecTV Churns Out One Solid Quarter With subscriber defections slowing, DirecTV was able to increase its quarterly income by more than 40%. From the perspective of savvy investors, it looks like there is money to made from DirecTV. |
Home Theater
April 26, 2007 |
TWC Axes Analog Time Warner Cable's Staten Island Project will provide 100 new channels of HDTV to the southernmost borough of New York City. |
Home Theater
October 20, 2003 |
Cablevision Launches Voom Satellite service offers 21 HDTV channels, standard fare, plus more to come. |
Home Theater
July 2003
Rebecca Day |
Baby Steps to HDTV The process may be painful, but the result is a bundle of joy. |
Home Theater
April 23, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Satellite HD and 3D Channels Grow Both DirecTV and Dish Network beef up their high-def content. |
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. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Robert Heron |
Expert View: Big Screens Don't Always Mean HDTV The most insidious problem is the fact that all video on TV is highly compressed. |
Home Theater
January 7, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
CES - Day 1 DISH Network's big announcement was that they will begin offering a Video On Demand... DIRECTV touted the soon-to-be-launched satellites which will give them the capability of offering local broadcast HD channels... |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Pulls the Plug on DISH Network Disney and DISH battle over HD channel programming fees. |
Wired
October 2003
Frank Rose |
The Fast-Forward, On-Demand, Network-Smashing Future of Television What happens when digital video recorders give viewers control of the TV schedule, the content, and the ads? The whole world is watching. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
John R. Quain |
Beyond Hi-Def: TV's Flexible Future HD has changed the way we look at TV. Now, a technological revolution is under way that will change the way we use it. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Television Isn't Dead Comcast makes your cable subscription even stickier. |
BusinessWeek
December 5, 2005
Ronald Grover |
Static In Rupert's Satellite Dreams New technology lets cable offer goodies DirecTV can't - and customers are noticing. |
Home Theater
October 1, 2007 |
MGM Lion to Roar in HD DirecTV will get a leg up on the Dish Network this fall with the launch of the MGM HD channel. |
AskMen.com
Craig Mazin |
Mr. Tech: Maximize Your HD Experience Here's a brief primer on HDTV technology. |
Home Theater
December 3, 2003 |
HDTV Sales Jump 50% Price drops, more programming combine to push hardware sales to new heights. |
Home Theater
February 10, 2003 |
Showtime Boosts HD Programming Showtime Networks has announced that it will "substantially increase" its high-definition programming for 2003, with sports events, movies and many of its original series airing in the digital format. |
Home Theater
January 24, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
VOOM and Gloom Was it a flawed business model that brought down the VOOM HD-centric satellite service, or was it something smaller but much more powerful? |
Home Toys
August 2005
James Russo |
Choosing a Home Satellite TV System DirecTV vs. Dish Network and Cable |
Home Theater
September 2, 2008 |
BDA: HD Claims Misleading Satellite operators and others that claim to supply full HD are "irresponsible" and "misleading," says the Blu-ray Disc Association. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Cliff Edwards |
Interactive TV: What's In The Cards? It's electronics companies vs. the cable giants in a battle over digital services |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004
Grover & Lowry |
Rupert's World With DirecTV, Murdoch finally has a global satellite empire. Get ready for a fierce new media war. |
PC Magazine
November 15, 2006
Robert Heron |
HDTV: The Time Is Now All your friends have them, and you want one, too. But how do you go about buying and setting up the right HDTV? It's really not as hard as you might think. Just relax and read on. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
Must-Have Toys For HDTV Buffs Receivers with built-in DVRs make recording programs a cinch: DirecTV's HR10-250... Dish Network's DVR-921... |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2007
Burt Helm |
Cable Takes A Ratings Hit Cable companies will suffer under Nielsen's new system, which counts who's watching the ads. |
BusinessWeek
May 21, 2009
Jon Fine |
Why Broadcast Networks Can't Just Turn Cable Sure, CBS and the others could garner paying audiences. But the broadcast network system is far too complex for a switch to happen easily. |
Home Theater
July 9, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Sony HD Movie Channels Coming Sony is about to launch two movie channels. One of two would be studio's first wholly owned channel. |
Home Theater
April 24, 2007 |
Broadcasters Rip Cable on DTV Dilution Cable operators may discriminate against broadcasters by reducing both the quality and quantity of DTV channels. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004 |
HD or Not HD High-definition TVs have become a hot consumer-electronics item, and some good-looking flat-panel HDTVs can now be had for less than $2,000. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004
Ronald Grover |
Q&A with DirecTV's Chase Carey The satellite operator's CEO aims to gain "a million new subscribers a year" with enhanced, interactive offerings cable rivals can't match. |
Home Theater
September 18, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
Satellite Problems Loom in DTV Transition Until now concerns over the transition to digital television, scheduled for 2009, have centered on broadcast-dependent viewers. But satellite viewers may be in for trouble too. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2011
Lipman & Esterhuizen |
Cable's Cloudy Future: 5 Cable TV Stocks Bucking the Trend Wall Street analysts think there are more earnings upside to these companies -- do you agree?: DIRECTV... Discovery Communications... Shaw Communications... Virgin Media... AMC Networks... |
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. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
The Truth About True HDTV: How Do You Know You're Truly Getting It? In order to maximize your HDTV viewing experience, an off-air antenna is an essential component, whether you choose to receive all of your HDTV signals exclusively via antenna, or use one to enhance your existing cable or satellite installation. |
Fast Company
Harry McCracken |
Review: Sling TV, An Intriguing -- But Incomplete -- First Draft Of The Future Of Pay TV There are going to be some people who care enough about the channels the service offers to pay $20 a month. Sports fans especially. But there will more who will look at the lineup and fixate on what's currently missing. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Robert Heron |
HD Inequality The efficiency of modern video compression enables multiple channels of digital programming where, previously, only one analog channel was possible. |
PC World
June 2004
Cathy Lu |
Record HDTV--But No Sopranos Pricey LST-3410A digital video recorder/receiver for high-definition TV comes with some limitations. |
