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General Interest

Early HDTV Supporter Dies at 93

By Dale Cripps • May 8 2008, 7:03pm

Frances Cripps died yesterday, May 8th 2008, at high-noon in Corvallis, Oregon. She was 93 years old. She had suffered a long illness.

Why is this news in HDTV Magazine, you should rightly ask? Frances was one of many unsung heroes who played key roles in furthering HDTV. Always far-seeing and an engineer by nature, she...

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Blu-ray Wins: A Bittersweet Celebration

By Dale Cripps • Mar 4 2008, 5:15pm

I suppose I should be jubilant with Toshiba's announcement saying the end of the high def DVD format war has come. If you have not yet heard, Toshiba has tossed in the towel on their HD DVD format.

Oddly enough, I am not all that thrilled. It's not that I miss the fist pounding, name calling, and back biting from the combatants, for I don't. My sadness, if it is that, is because both contenders were so well suited for the job they were vying for. It is just unfortunate to me that one had to fail in the public eye. It is, after all, a bit of a public humiliation. Neither candidate deserved th ...

Blu-ray

Is It My Choice, or Is It Yours?

By Dale Cripps • Nov 2 2007, 6:31pm

I wrote the piece (below) originally for High-Def.Org Magazine. It concerns the high-definition DVD format war High-Def.Org is a printed monthly magazine read by 20,000 professionals working in television and motion pictures. The article contains a highly personal view (certainly different from my partner Shane's) and one which I ask no one to follow...nor is it some official stand taking by HDTV Magazine. It would be misleading to say, however, that it was written without the hope of being an influence to putting to rest this dual format problem. How it falls is not too much of a concern for ...

General Interest • Education • General Interest • Marketplace

Preparing Consumers for the Digital Television Transition

By Dale Cripps • Jul 30 2007, 9:42pm

"We need to get the digital transition right." _Senator Daniel Inouye


The Senate Commerce Committee on Science and Transportation held yet another hearing last Thursday, (July 26, 2007), on the digital television transition. With only eighteen months remaining until shut off of all analog terrestrial broadcasting (switching to all-digital) there is a frightening recognition that the public has yet to be informed about it. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) opened the hearing with a fist full of "facts".

"Between 15 and 21 million households," he said, "rely exclusively on ...

High Definition Production • Technology • Sports • Products & Equipment • Marketplace • Blu-ray • Global & Worldview

Don't Let Your High Definition Productions Perish Like Figs In The Sun

By Dale Cripps • Apr 20 2007, 3:51am

Depending upon one's loyalty "your side" is winning the high definition DVD race, but it's still a horse race to everyone else.

What is making headway is 1080p-the golden hope of the 80s and 90s has arrived, though not without controversy over its necessity.

Many of you in the professional ranks will say...

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Coalition Pledges to Alert Consumers About Transition

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By Dale Cripps • Feb 28 2007, 11:27pm • Politics & Policy

DTV Transition Still in a Vacuum

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By Dale Cripps • Feb 1 2007, 4:01pm • Politics & Policy

Bill Introduced To Ensure Education of Consumers

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By Dale Cripps • Jan 23 2007, 1:30am • Politics & Policy

Still a Mystery...

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By Dale Cripps • Dec 4 2006, 8:55pm • General Interest

The HDTV Expo Sets Out To Solve Customer Confusion About HDTV

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By Dale Cripps • Sep 16 2006, 7:20pm • Business & Investment

When Is Network News Coming In HDTV?

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By Dale Cripps • Sep 6 2006, 5:31pm • Programming

In The Eye of The Beholder

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By Dale Cripps • Jul 11 2006, 5:23pm • General Interest

HD DVD Research Summary

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By Dale Cripps • Jul 11 2006, 5:13pm • Technology

DisplaySearch Reports Global LCD TV Shipments Rise 135% in Q1

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By Dale Cripps • May 25 2006, 12:25am • Marketplace

California Monkey Wrench

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 12 2006, 5:49am • Politics & Policy

It's a Big, Big Mitsubishi World

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 11 2006, 1:30am • Marketplace

Looking Ahead

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By Dale Cripps • Mar 25 2006, 6:41am • Entertainment

Interview - Mark Knox, Toshiba on HD DVD

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By Dale Cripps • Feb 23 2006, 6:59am • Marketplace

Copyright Piracy in Asia - An Update

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By Dale Cripps • Feb 11 2006, 7:18am • Global & Worldview

President Bush Signs Historic DTV Bill, CEA Says HDTV Is On A Roll

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By Dale Cripps • Feb 9 2006, 12:30am • Politics & Policy

National Geographic Goes HD

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By Dale Cripps • Jan 23 2006, 6:16am • Programming

How Many Depend On Over-the-Air?

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By Dale Cripps • Dec 30 2005, 10:36pm • Politics & Policy

House Passed a Compromise DTV Hard Date Bill

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By Dale Cripps • Dec 19 2005, 6:27pm • Politics & Policy

To Subsidize or Not To Subsidize, That Was Almost The Question

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By Dale Cripps • Dec 10 2005, 4:38am • Politics & Policy

Saturday Night Live In HDTV Starting October 1, 2005

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By Dale Cripps • Sep 23 2005, 4:30pm • Programming

Program Review - Winged Migration on HDNet Movies

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By Dale Cripps • Sep 22 2005, 11:50pm • Programming

The Health of HDTV As of September 14, 2005

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By Dale Cripps • Sep 14 2005, 10:22pm • Marketplace

DisplaySearch HDTV Conference

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By Dale Cripps • Jul 25 2005, 7:04pm • Education

The Politics of the Transition to DTV - Jeff Hart

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By Dale Cripps • Jun 20 2005, 10:52pm • Politics & Policy

Educate the Public by Educating the Retailers

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By Dale Cripps • May 25 2005, 7:49pm • Education

Who Needs Broadcasting?

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By Dale Cripps • May 12 2005, 11:37pm • Politics & Policy

Broadcasting's Challenge, Or Is It Too Late?

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By Dale Cripps • May 12 2005, 6:43pm • Politics & Policy

We Are Close -- Let's Bring it Home

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By Dale Cripps • May 12 2005, 6:07pm • Politics & Policy

Do You Want A Date Certain?

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By Dale Cripps • May 12 2005, 5:37pm • Politics & Policy

Digital Television Is Our Gift To The Next Generation

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By Dale Cripps • May 11 2005, 4:42pm • Global & Worldview

Joe Azar's Report From Home Entertainment Show In New York

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By Dale Cripps • May 3 2005, 6:57pm • Entertainment

Dish Network is adding 21 of the (formerly) VOOM channels

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By Dale Cripps • May 1 2005, 4:54pm • Programming

Quality Is The Only Purpose

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By Dale Cripps • May 1 2005, 5:17am • Products & Equipment

HDTV Magazine's TIPS LIST Daily

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 28 2005, 4:12pm • Technology

Ridding the Nation of DTV Fables

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 27 2005, 8:25pm • Politics & Policy

Making of a Date Certain

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 25 2005, 1:43pm • Politics & Policy

Is the Public Interest to be Found?

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 22 2005, 3:57am • Politics & Policy

The End of Broadcasting as we Have Known it?

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 22 2005, 1:44am • Technology

Consumer Electronics Association Urges Broadcasters to Take Responsibility

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 20 2005, 1:59am • Politics & Policy

News from China -- A New Respect?

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 20 2005, 1:21am • Global & Worldview

New Sales Figures Just Released

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By Dale Cripps • Apr 16 2005, 6:43pm • Marketplace

On Completing the Transition and Recovering Spectrum

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By Dale Cripps • Mar 18 2005, 3:41pm • Politics & Policy

Limping Or Leaping?

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By Dale Cripps • Mar 11 2005, 4:17pm • Marketplace

HDTV's Chief Competion is 480p

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By Dale Cripps • Mar 10 2005, 10:01pm • Technology