Why upgrade to DTV? Why fix something that isn’t broke? We’ve have been told that the analog air waves after the transition to digital television will be used for public safety usage and advance wireless services. The need to free up air signals for emergency public service communication usage is completely understandable. We all want our fire, [...]
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More Training and Advertising Needed For DTV Transition
The early DTV Conversion Test in Wilmington, North Carolina this past September which required consumers in that area to convert their analog televisions earlier than the scheduled dtv transition, proved to be successful, but also showed where some areas of improvement could be made. As a result, Time Warner Cable and the Federal Communications Commission [...]
Cable Companies are Accused of Deceptive Business Practices
As America is preparing for the transition from analog to digital television in February 2009, Comcast is reporting record sales for their digital cable subscriptions. Many consumers are choosing to subscribe to digital cable, rather than converting their analog TVs by buying a new converter box. This new influx of orders has earnings up 38 percent for the [...]
Toxic Concerns Overshadow Digital Transition
Many environmentalist groups such as Greenpeace and the Electronics TakeBack Coalition are advocating ways of informing the public of safe recycling options. These groups are concerned about the impending increase of electronic waste that will occur after the analog to digital transition is completed. A very large percentage of Americans who will not be able to [...]
CEA And Whiskey Falls Team up for a YouTube DTV Contest
In an attempt to help U.S. consumers ease into the transition from analog to digital television, The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has teamed up with Whiskey Falls to promote a special DTV contest on YouTube. Country music band Whiskey Falls created a new video, “We are America”, which explains contest details. The idea for this contest is [...]
Congress has questions for head of DTV Coupon Program
House Commerce Committee and its Telecommunications Subcommittee have sent a list (10/22/08) of questions to NTIA head Meredith Atwell Baker, in regards to the DTV converter box coupon program. In the letter, Commerce chair John Dingell (D-MI) and Telecom Subcommittee Chair Ed Markey (D-MA) asked for answers on pressing issues such as: broadcast stations or community groups applying for coupons and giving [...]
FCC official claims digital transition will be “messy”
Robert McDowell (one of five-members on the Federal Communications Commision) made the following comment last Tuesday (10-14-08), about the transition to DTV, The transition will be messy … but we will get through it. McDowell pointed out that broadcasters should focus advertising in their local markets on the technical needs of consumers. One such example [...]
FCC may auction off unused TV airwaves
Last Wednesday (10/15/08), the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin, proposed opening up unused portions of the television airwaves for wireless broadband services. Supporters of the plan claim that television airwaves offer an advantage over traditional cellular broadcast methods because they can ”penetrate walls”, transmit more information (bandwidth), and travel over a broader area of land. [...]
9 Million Homes Still Not Ready For Digital Conversion
In a report released last week by marketing information and audience measurement firm The Nielsen Company, currently estimates that more than 9 million homes have television sets that are still not ready for the analog-digital conversion. Another 12 million homes will have at least one TV set that will not be ready for the digital [...]
