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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 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 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 June 17, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
DTV Transition Is a Year Old Are you enjoying your free over-the-air HDTV? |
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 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. |
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 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 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 December 19, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Transition Date Set The House approves the DTV transition date and the Senate expected to agree today. |
Home Theater May 27, 2009 |
Analog-Shutoff Test Hits a Nerve A single-day record of 55,000 calls flooded help lines staffed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday, May 21, after TV stations across the nation broadcast a series of warnings about the shutoff of analog television signals scheduled for June 12. |
Home Theater October 26, 2007 |
FCC Slaps Retailers on Analog TV Labeling The fines are for selling analog televisions without adequately warning consumers that these sets will become obsolete with the end of analog broadcasting on February 17, 2009. |
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. |
InternetNews December 21, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk With President Bush's signature, over-the-air analog broadcasting will go dark in three years. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Home Theater January 16, 2009 |
Three-Month DTV Delay Urged Sen. John Rockefeller has introduced a bill that would delay the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting from the currently scheduled February 17th to June 12th. |
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 January 3, 2008 Mark Fleischman |
U.S. DTV Penetration Hits Milestone Digital television has passed its most significant milestone. |
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 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. |
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 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 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 July 11, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson |
Money for Nothing (to Watch) How many analog TV viewers are there and should they get a DTV tuner subsidy when there's nothing to watch? |
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Roy Mark |
Dingell Dangles DTV Delay Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee slams digital converter box subsidy program. |
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. |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
DTV Snags Loom Large Despite Delay FCC chairman warns of widespread confusion as many stations plan to shut off analog signals next week. |
Home Theater May 30, 2008 |
Nielsen: Million of Analog-TV Homes Unready Nearly 10 million American homes are "completely unready" for the DTV transition, according to a Nielsen Media Research. |
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 November 7, 2008 |
Cable Must Carry Broadcast Channels Following the DTV transition next February, cable systems will be required to carry broadcast channels. |
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 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 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. |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Morgan Housel |
Best Buy Gives Analog the Boot The retailer becomes the first to pull the plug on analog TVs. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Jennifer L. DeLeo |
Gearlog: Ready Your TV For HD By February 17, 2009, all U.S. TV stations will be required to switch to digital broadcasts. |
InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Pushes Educational Outreach New legislation would mandate consumer programs by broadcasters, retailers and the FCC. |
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 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 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 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. |
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 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 October 30, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
Will FCC Revoke DTV Spectrum? Wireless broadband may take precedence over digital TV. |
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 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 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. |