By Shane Sturgeon • Nov 18, 11:00pm
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today issued the following statement regarding a decision by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to impose unprecedented and unnecessary energy efficiency standards on television sets sold in California.
The following statement may be attributed to Jason Oxman, CEA’s senior vice president of Industry Affairs.
“CEA is extremely disappointed in the CEC’s decision to regulate...
By Shane Sturgeon • Sep 16, 1:01am
Today, during a series of events held at local TV retail stores in Los Angeles, Fresno and San Francisco, Californians for Smart Energy released the findings of a new statewide poll that found that 57 percent of Californian's oppose the California Energy Commission's (CEC's) proposal to regulate television electricity usage.
Conducted by Zogby International (see memo at: http://casmartenergy.com/in-the-news.php), other key findings included...
By Shane Sturgeon • Jun 12, 12:02pm
On the eve of an historic technological transition to digital television, the focus for the two federal agencies managing the switch is on helping Americans who are at risk of losing their TV signals.
The digital TV (DTV) transition began over two decades ago as engineers set an ambitious technological goal...
By Shane Sturgeon • Oct 30 2008, 10:50am
FOX News Channel (FNC) will provide live continuous coverage of Election Night beginning at 6:00PM ET on November 4th.
Brit Hume will kick off the evening's coverage joined by Chris Wallace and panelists Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol from The Weekly Standard, Juan Williams of National Public Radio, and Nina Easton of Fortune magazine.
Coverage will emanate from FNC's all new High Definition studio which will be debuted that evening, and analysis will be provided by both the former Co-chief Strategist and Communications Director for Senator Hillary Clinton Howard Wolfson and former Senior White House Advisor to President Bush Karl Rove.
In addition...
By Rodolfo La Maestra • Jun 17 2008, 11:32am
How would you like to view an HD movie at home via Video-On-Demand (VOD) just a few weeks after its theatrical release, even before it's released on DVD and Blu-ray? Maybe your HDTV connections would not let you do it, despite the fact that you paid for the movie.
On May 9, 2008, the MPAA issued a petition to the FCC for a waiver of the SOC feature...