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Home Theater April 7, 2008 |
Consumers Won't Trash Analog TVs A new study shows most of the obsolete TV sets will find loving new homes. |
Home Theater October 2, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
Consumers Buying More But Smaller TVs Sales of sets up to 37 inches outpacing larger ones by 3:2. |
Home Theater June 17, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
DTV Transition Is a Year Old Are you enjoying your free over-the-air HDTV? |
Home Theater May 20, 2009 |
FCC to Do 'Soft Test' of DTV Transition Analog TV broadcasts will be interrupted three times on May 21, 2009 with a message heralding the end of analog broadcasting, coming on June 12. |
Home Theater October 18, 2007 |
Best Buy Banishes Obsolete TVs Best Buy stopped selling analog sets on October 1, 2007. No longer will confused low-end consumers take home obsolete TVs. A bright new DTV world is dawning. |
Home Theater March 19, 2009 |
FCC Tweaks DTV Transition Scenario The Federal Communications Commission is using what it learned in February to set down rules for the remainder of the stations that complete the transition in June. |
Home Theater June 11, 2009 |
DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter? |
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. |
Home Theater June 12, 2007 |
Two DTV Makers Violate Tuner Mandate The Federal Communications Commission has fined two up-and-coming DTV makers for failing to build digital tuners into their flat-panel sets. |
PC Magazine March 19, 2009 John Brandon |
Falling Off the Digital Cliff Even with a converter box, some will be left out in the cold after the DTV switchover. |
Home Theater February 4, 2009 |
It's Official: DTV Transition Botched The on-again, off-again effort to delay the DTV transition from February 17 to June 12 has overcome its biggest obstacle. |
Home Theater January 28, 2009 |
HDTVs Abundant, HDTV Not First the good news: More than 39 million U.S. households have HDTVs. Now the bad news: Only 22 million of them have a source of high-def programming, leaving the other 17 million out in the standard-def cold. |
PC Magazine March 1, 2009 Sascha Segan |
Don't Delay the DTV Transition We've waited long enough for the analog to digital television conversion. It's time to switch over. |
Home Theater October 30, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
Will FCC Revoke DTV Spectrum? Wireless broadband may take precedence over digital TV. |
Home Theater February 17, 2009 |
Happy DTV Transition Day, Part 1 Today is the originally scheduled date of the DTV transition. Some television stations will make the transition from antiquated analog to cool new digital broadcasting on this very date. Others will have to wait till June 12. Here's a look at the current tally. |
Home Theater May 22, 2007 |
Will Box Shortage Mar DTV Transition? TV station owners are worried that a lack of convertors may let analog sets fade to black after the transition to digital television. |
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. |
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. |
Home Theater February 19, 2009 |
Hello, FCC? My TV Went Dark On the day after the nation's TV stations ceased analog broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission received 28,000 phone calls. |
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 March 20, 2009 |
More Stations to Make Early DTV Transition The DTV transition scenario continued to develop this week when the Federal Communications Commission announced that 158 more stations plan to complete their switch from analog to digital broadcasting before June 12's final drop-dead deadline. |
Home Theater June 8, 2009 |
Obama: Get Ready for the DTV Transition President Obama has added his voice to the chorus of warnings about the impending DTV transition. |
Home Theater August 22, 2008 |
FCC Does DTV Promo Tour With the DTV transition deadline looming early next year, members of the Federal Communications Commission are hitting the streets to educate Americans. |
Home Theater January 27, 2009 |
Senate Partly Delays DTV Transition The drive to delay the DTV transition cleared the Senate last night. However, the legislation now has a new twist - the delay is voluntary. |
Home Theater May 22, 2009 |
FCC Girds for Analog Armageddon The Federal Communications Commission is going into high gear to ensure that the final stage of the DTV transition goes smoothly. |
Home Theater November 17, 2008 |
FCC Green-Lights DTV Range Fix The Federal Communications Commission has green-lighted distributed transmission systems to essentially allow the usual single broadcast tower to be supplemented with additional transmitters. |
Home Theater July 30, 2007 |
Will DTV Transition Go Off the Rails? Elected representatives are fretting that some analog-TV viewers may not have gotten the memo that analog television broadcasting is scheduled to end on February 18, 2009. |
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. |
InternetNews September 8, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Dawn of the Digital Television Era First DTV switchover today in test market Wilmington, N.C., in advance of nationwide transition in February. |
InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Pushes Educational Outreach New legislation would mandate consumer programs by broadcasters, retailers and the FCC. |
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. |
Home Theater April 14, 2004 |
Study: Rosy Future for DTVs Global shipments of digital televisions will hit 93 million in 2008, more than five times the present level, according to In-Stat/MDR. |
Home Theater September 11, 2008 |
Wilmington, NC Lives the DTV Future Now Folks in Wilmington, North Carolina are getting digital signals exclusively in a trial run for the overall U.S. DTV transition. |
InternetNews April 26, 2005 Roy Mark |
Tech to TV Execs: Get Off the Beachfront! A group of IT CEOs urges Congress to set a date certain for digital TV transition so spectrum can be opened for wireless broadband. |
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 Theater March 18, 2004 |
Samsung and Cable Industry Cable providers and electronics giant team up for HDTV's "Coming of Age" party in New York, announce joint promotional effort. |
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark |
Coalition Pushes For DTV Transition Tech companies, trade groups urge Congress to hold fast to Feb. 17, 2009 cut-off as the end of analog broadcasting. |
Home Theater January 22, 2009 |
Hawaii Enters DTV Age Early Hawaii became the first state in the union to turn off analog television signals, thus entering the age of DTV at least a month earlier than the deadline for the other 49 states. |
Home Theater October 21, 2008 Mark Fleischmann |
TV Prices to Drop This Holiday Season Now is the time to buy a HDTV. |
Home Theater January 13, 2009 |
DTV Transition May Be Delayed Acting in response to consumer-group complaints, the Obama transition team has asked the Federal Communications to delay the DTV transition. |
Home Theater March 26, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson |
HDTV Tuning for the Masses Can two hundred bucks really buy you high-definition happiness? |
Home Theater December 5, 2007 |
DTV Stations Move Around UHF will not be the exclusive home of DTV channels following the transition from analog broadcasting. Some will remain on VHF, contrary to what's been widely reported. |
PC World December 2005 Yardena Arar |
Ten HDTV Myths The world of high-definition television can be as confusing as it is alluring. If you're ready to make the leap, we have the facts you need. |
InternetNews June 9, 2005 Roy Mark |
FCC Tuning In DTV The Federal Communications Commission told TV makers today they must comply with a July 1 mandate to carry digital tuners in half of their most popular models. |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2007 Anders Bylund |
You Haven't Missed the Silicon Image Boat It's not too late to take advantage of this high-definition expert company, one of the biggest valuation failures on the market. Investors, take note. |
Home Theater May 7, 2009 |
The Nation Is Getting DTV-Readier According to a new poll from the National Association of Broadcasters, 82 percent of broadcast-dependent TV households fully prepared for the DTV transition. |
Home Theater September 19, 2008 |
FCC: DTV Test 99 Percent Successful The nation's first full test of the DTV transition has been 99 percent successful, says the chair of the FCC. |
BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Lorraine Woellert |
HP Wants Your Old PCs Back HP is pushing states to force recycling of TVs, computers, and other e-gear. Here's why. |
Popular Mechanics August 13, 2008 Glenn Derene |
Recycle Your Television Now--Before It's Too Late: Buzzword It's clear that not enough Americans are recycling their televisions. What's not so clear is how "green" the recycling process has become. |
Home Theater March 13, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
Enraged Man Shoots TV Of all the possible reactions to the DTV transition, the most extreme occurred a few weeks ago, when a man shot his TV set. |