DTV News for 10-21-2005

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 10-21-2005
436 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

$3B may go to ease arrival of all-digital TV
(Associated Press via Tucson, AZ Citizen)
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php? ... s_digitalt

US Senate panel sets April 2009 digital TV move
(Reuters / Melbourne, AU Herald Sun)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsartic ... ITALTV.xml
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common ... 69,00.html

A Bill Advancing Digital TV Is Approved by Senate Panel
Switch from analog possible by April 2009
(New York, NY Times / San Francisco, CA Chronicle)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/polit ... gital.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... FBVAL1.DTL

Bill seeks $3B to convert analog
(USA Today via Yahoo News)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200510 ... vertanalog

Senate panel sets deadline for digital TV switch: 2009
Analog users, many elderly or poor, might get financial help buying needed converter boxes
(Austin, TX American-Statesman)
http://www.statesman.com/business/conte ... 21dtv.html

Senate Panel Kills McCain Amendment
The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday voted 17-5 to kill a proposal that would have shut down analog broadcasting in the United States April 7, 2007.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... erral=SUPP

Senate Panel Approves 2009 DTV Deadline
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8764

Senate Commerce Committee Approves April 7, 2009 Target Date for Analog Shutoff
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=3376

Commerce Sets 2009 Hard Date [Paid Subscription Required]
By a vote of 19-3, the Senate Commerce Committee has passed a bill to set the hard date of the return of analog spectrum at April 7, 2009.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News

Digital TV Date Pushed to 2009
Senators consider hastening mandatory transition to digital broadcast signal.
(IDG News Service via PC World)
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article ... RSS,00.asp

Senate panel sets deadline for TV spectrum transition
(IDG News Service)
http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/idgnet.asp?id=9393

DTV Deadline to Vacate Spectrum Advances
(InternetNews.com)
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3558066

Senate Panel Mandates All-Digital TV Broadcasts By 2009
(Networking Pipeline)
http://www.networkingpipeline.com/showA ... =172302954

Dingell Pushes Subsidy For House Bill [Paid Subscription Required]
In an op-ed piece in The Hill newspaper Thursday, John Dingell (D-Mich.), ranking Democrat on the House Commerce Committee, called for putting most of the proceeds from the auction of analog spectrum toward interoperable communications for first responders, as well as a subsidy for digital-to-analog converter boxes.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News

Motorola Urges Passage of Digital Television Transition Hard Date
First Responders Need Congressional Action Sooner Rather than Later for Radio Frequencies and Interoperable Communications Network to Protect People and Save Lives
(PR Newswire via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051020/cgth052.html?.v=31


TV Sales Picture Bright: Lower prices help boost demand for digital models
(Quincy, MA Patriot Ledger)
http://ledger.southofboston.com/article ... news20.txt

New ViewSonic Multi-Function Display Enhances Both HD Television and PC Viewing
Wide-Screen LCD TV Provides Performance, Versatility and Value for Desktop or Den
(Creativepro.com)
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/23541.html


A Clash of Titans
Toshiba's HD-DVD has an advantage for movie studios that are worried about film piracy. The first HD-DVD units will support only playback, not recording, which means in the short term that movie disks will be impossible to copy, In-Stat analyst Gerry Kaufhold said. Blu-ray, on the other hand, will record blank disks the day it is introduced.
(Star Tribune via E-Commerce Times)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/46840.html

Warner Bros. Backs Blu-Ray DVD Format
Warner Bros. Becomes the Second Studio to Back Blu-Ray High Definition DVD Format
(Associated Press via yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/051020/next_gen ... .html?.v=4

DVD Wars: Last Hope for Peace?
(Business Week via Yahoo News)
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/051021/244/fuzxi.html

Definitive Answers On High-Def
(BusinessWeek)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/co ... d=rss_tech

2005 HDTV Report, Part 12: HDTV Recorders [Rodolfo La Maestra]
(HDTV Magazine)
http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/20 ... por_11.php


KLRN Switches to HD with Snell
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=3384


TANDBERG Television Wins Third DIRECTV MPEG-4 AVC HD Order for $7m+
(Business Wire via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051021/206058.html?.v=1

DirecTV Contracts LG for MPEG-4 Set-Tops
(PC Magazine via Yahoo News)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20051020/tc_zd/163170


iSuppli to gather display industry luminaries for FID 2005
(iSuppli via DigiTimes)
http://www.digitimes.com/displays/a20051021PR201.html

Analogix backs DisplayPort HDTV standard
(EE Times)
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArti ... =172302747


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