DTV News for 11-15-2003
1,142 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
Multicast Must-Carry Bogs Down at the FCC [Paid Subscription Required]
Broadcasters better not mail invitations for their must-carry victory party just yet. FCC and industry sources last week told BROADCASTING & CABLE that plans to give TV stations broader cable-carriage rights for digital channels have hit serious snags. The upshot: Commission support for handing broadcasters the right to demand carriage of their multiple digital channels is much less certai......
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...11/17/2003
Multicasting Ship Hasn't Sailed [Paid Subscription Required]
Washington— No majority now exists on the Federal Communications Commission to force cable companies to carry multiple programming services distributed by digital television stations, FCC chairman Michael Powell said last Thursday. Powell, who voted to oppose a multicast mandate in January 2001, dismissed reports that broadcasters had prevailed over cable operators and programmers in the ......
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...11/17/2003
Multicast Fight Takes Center Stage [Paid Subscription Required]
Washington— Broadcasters like to say that the DTV transition has been all pain and no gain, with billions of dollars spent but not one penny in return. Federal regulators have tried their best to accommodate the cost pressures on the nation's 1,730 stations every step of the way. In fact, when 65% of commercial stations flouted the May 2002 deadline to begin digital broadcasting, the Fede......
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...11/17/2003
NBC, Affils Forecast DTV Weather Channel [Paid Subscription Required]
NBC and its affiliates are developing a mostly local weather service that would be offered as part of a multicast package on their DTV channels. "I don't think there is a TV station in the affiliate body that would say there is anything more strategic than weather," says Hearst-Argyle Television Executive Vice President Terry Mackin, who chairs the joint futures committee of NBC and its affilia......
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...11/17/2003
Those Thursday Thoughts (Mark's Monday Memo) 2003 November 13
(Digital Television)
www.digitaltelevision.com...02044.html
Public Television Stations To Study Possible Early Analog Switch Off
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...004&-find=
NAB Relaunches Digitaltvzone.com
(Digital Television)
www.digitaltelevision.com...14_3.shtml
Discovery HD Theater Serves A Heaping Portion Of High-Definition Programming For Thanksgiving
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...002&-find=
Discovery HD Theater And Circuit City Unite To Further Consumer Awareness Of HDTV
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...003&-find=
Solar Eclipse Live from Antarctica
(Discovery Channel Canada)
www.exn.ca/Stories/2003/11/07/51.asp
Kristen Cox, HD Pioneer
HD production then and no
(Broadcast Newsroom)
www.broadcastnewsroom.com...erview.htm
900 frames Launches HD Studios
900 frames, a Santa Monica-based full service commercial production company has launched its all new HD STUDIOS with partner/director Paul Emami.
(Videography)
www.uemedia.net/CPC/video...5325.shtml
ESPN Taps Thomson [Paid Subscription Required]
ESPN pulled out the wallet and plunked down $15 million last week for the purchase of HD equipment from Thomson. ESPN's HD facility will be located in the network's new 120,000-square-foot Bristol, Conn., home and will rely on a variety of Thomson Grass Valley gear. The new equipment includes the Grass Valley Kalypso HD switcher and a Trinix large-scale video routing switcher with 1024x512 inpu......
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...11/17/2003
Samsung Adds Three LCD Monitors
Las Vegas - Samsung will introduce new 19-inch, 17-inch and 15-inch LCD SyncMaster computer monitor/TVs here next week.
(This Week in Consumer Electronics}
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...eakingNews
TV/Monitor Hybrids: Prime Time Meets the Daily Grind
(PC Magazine)
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,...614,00.asp
Onkyo`S Net-Tune™ Ready TX-NR901 A/V Receiver Gets Component Video Upconversion
With processing for every major home theater sound format currently in use, and quality HDTV capable component video switching, the TX-NR901 is one of the most versatile and powerful entertainment system centerpieces available today.
(Home Toys)
www.hometoys.com/news.php...d=16732304
Onkyo TX-NR901 Receiver Gets Component Video Conversion and RF- Capable Remote
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...001&-find=
DTS Spec Added To HD D-VHS Platform
Los Angeles – JVC said it has completed technical specifications to enable authoring of DTS sound on its D-VHS D-Theater high definition prerecorded video software platform as an optional sound system.
(This Week in Consumer Electronics}
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...eakingNews
NASA KSC Sources Sought Notice: Operational Television HDTV Cameras
(SpaceRef)
www.spaceref.com/news/vie...?pid=11011
MicroDisplay LCoS panel comes in under an inch
(EE Times)
www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20031114S0033
CRTC Issues Rules For DTV Distribution [Canada]
(Digital Televison)
www.digitaltelevision.com...14_5.shtml
Placeholder for 7-day EPG now on Freeview [UK]
A placeholder for 4TV's EPG service on Freeview has appeared on channel 704.
(Digital Spy)
www.digitalspy.co.uk/arti...12358.html
'Teletext on 4' appears on Freeview [UK]
FourText has been replaced by a "coming soon" notice from 'Teletext on 4' on Freeview channel 50.
(Digital Spy)
www.digitalspy.co.uk/arti...12357.html
1,142 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
Multicast Must-Carry Bogs Down at the FCC [Paid Subscription Required]
Broadcasters better not mail invitations for their must-carry victory party just yet. FCC and industry sources last week told BROADCASTING & CABLE that plans to give TV stations broader cable-carriage rights for digital channels have hit serious snags. The upshot: Commission support for handing broadcasters the right to demand carriage of their multiple digital channels is much less certai......
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...11/17/2003
Multicasting Ship Hasn't Sailed [Paid Subscription Required]
Washington— No majority now exists on the Federal Communications Commission to force cable companies to carry multiple programming services distributed by digital television stations, FCC chairman Michael Powell said last Thursday. Powell, who voted to oppose a multicast mandate in January 2001, dismissed reports that broadcasters had prevailed over cable operators and programmers in the ......
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...11/17/2003
Multicast Fight Takes Center Stage [Paid Subscription Required]
Washington— Broadcasters like to say that the DTV transition has been all pain and no gain, with billions of dollars spent but not one penny in return. Federal regulators have tried their best to accommodate the cost pressures on the nation's 1,730 stations every step of the way. In fact, when 65% of commercial stations flouted the May 2002 deadline to begin digital broadcasting, the Fede......
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...11/17/2003
NBC, Affils Forecast DTV Weather Channel [Paid Subscription Required]
NBC and its affiliates are developing a mostly local weather service that would be offered as part of a multicast package on their DTV channels. "I don't think there is a TV station in the affiliate body that would say there is anything more strategic than weather," says Hearst-Argyle Television Executive Vice President Terry Mackin, who chairs the joint futures committee of NBC and its affilia......
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...11/17/2003
Those Thursday Thoughts (Mark's Monday Memo) 2003 November 13
(Digital Television)
www.digitaltelevision.com...02044.html
Public Television Stations To Study Possible Early Analog Switch Off
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...004&-find=
NAB Relaunches Digitaltvzone.com
(Digital Television)
www.digitaltelevision.com...14_3.shtml
Discovery HD Theater Serves A Heaping Portion Of High-Definition Programming For Thanksgiving
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...002&-find=
Discovery HD Theater And Circuit City Unite To Further Consumer Awareness Of HDTV
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...003&-find=
Solar Eclipse Live from Antarctica
(Discovery Channel Canada)
www.exn.ca/Stories/2003/11/07/51.asp
Kristen Cox, HD Pioneer
HD production then and no
(Broadcast Newsroom)
www.broadcastnewsroom.com...erview.htm
900 frames Launches HD Studios
900 frames, a Santa Monica-based full service commercial production company has launched its all new HD STUDIOS with partner/director Paul Emami.
(Videography)
www.uemedia.net/CPC/video...5325.shtml
ESPN Taps Thomson [Paid Subscription Required]
ESPN pulled out the wallet and plunked down $15 million last week for the purchase of HD equipment from Thomson. ESPN's HD facility will be located in the network's new 120,000-square-foot Bristol, Conn., home and will rely on a variety of Thomson Grass Valley gear. The new equipment includes the Grass Valley Kalypso HD switcher and a Trinix large-scale video routing switcher with 1024x512 inpu......
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...11/17/2003
Samsung Adds Three LCD Monitors
Las Vegas - Samsung will introduce new 19-inch, 17-inch and 15-inch LCD SyncMaster computer monitor/TVs here next week.
(This Week in Consumer Electronics}
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...eakingNews
TV/Monitor Hybrids: Prime Time Meets the Daily Grind
(PC Magazine)
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,...614,00.asp
Onkyo`S Net-Tune™ Ready TX-NR901 A/V Receiver Gets Component Video Upconversion
With processing for every major home theater sound format currently in use, and quality HDTV capable component video switching, the TX-NR901 is one of the most versatile and powerful entertainment system centerpieces available today.
(Home Toys)
www.hometoys.com/news.php...d=16732304
Onkyo TX-NR901 Receiver Gets Component Video Conversion and RF- Capable Remote
(Widescreen Review)
db.widescreenreview.com/w...001&-find=
DTS Spec Added To HD D-VHS Platform
Los Angeles – JVC said it has completed technical specifications to enable authoring of DTS sound on its D-VHS D-Theater high definition prerecorded video software platform as an optional sound system.
(This Week in Consumer Electronics}
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...eakingNews
NASA KSC Sources Sought Notice: Operational Television HDTV Cameras
(SpaceRef)
www.spaceref.com/news/vie...?pid=11011
MicroDisplay LCoS panel comes in under an inch
(EE Times)
www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20031114S0033
CRTC Issues Rules For DTV Distribution [Canada]
(Digital Televison)
www.digitaltelevision.com...14_5.shtml
Placeholder for 7-day EPG now on Freeview [UK]
A placeholder for 4TV's EPG service on Freeview has appeared on channel 704.
(Digital Spy)
www.digitalspy.co.uk/arti...12358.html
'Teletext on 4' appears on Freeview [UK]
FourText has been replaced by a "coming soon" notice from 'Teletext on 4' on Freeview channel 50.
(Digital Spy)
www.digitalspy.co.uk/arti...12357.html
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