DTV News for 5-12-2005

[Lee Wood]

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> DTV News for 5-12-2005 </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> 598 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> CEA's Shapiro Encourages a Hard Analog Cut-off in Letter to Congressman Barton </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> Lays Out DTV Sales Forecasts </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>
(Consumer Electronics Association / Business Wire via Yahoo News)<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> CEA Chief Sees Grim Outlook for Over-the-Air TV </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> Thumbing his nose at broadcasters, Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, characterized over-the-air TV as a dying medium Tuesday and made a thinly veiled threat to pull his organization out of the Advanced Television Systems Committee -- the industry group charged with setting broadcast digital TV standards. </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>
(TelevisionWeek)<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> CEA Pushing for DTV Hard Date </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The CEA is urging Congress to end the digital-television transition and ignore inflated concerns of broadcasters about the impact on consumers who rely exclusively on free, over-the-air broadcasting. </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>
(Multichannel News)<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> Digital Television Is Our Gift To The Next Generation [Dale Cripps] </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
(HDTV Magazine)<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> KABC News Goes High-Def [Paid Subscription Required] </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
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