DTV News for 12-8-2003
1,119 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
Suddenly It's Hip To Spectrum-Split [Paid Subscription Required]
When ABC's Preston Padden and Sinclair's David Smith talked up digital multicasting in 1997, the suggestion landed both in hot water in then HDTV-crazed Washington. It also prompted other broadcasters to accuse them of selling out high-def. This fall, though, news that NBC and ABC are working with their affiliates to develop locally oriented multicasting services generated hardly a ripple....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/08/2003
Must-Carry, But Through the Back Door [Paid Subscription Required]
The National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for Maximum Service Television have cooked up a complicated plan that would give a station the power to force a local cable system to carry either the old analog signal or the new digital one but not both. That's the theory, anyway. Under current rules, stations can invoke must-carry for only the analog signal....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/08/2003
Multicast Must-Carry Is No Answer [Paid Subscription Required]
Lowell Paxson's Airtime (Nov. 24) repeats the sentiment that dual, multicast must-carry is "necessary to ensure a successful [digital] transition." What it does not answer is why. No doubt, compelling high-definition digital program services over the air and by cable are necessary to persuade Americans to buy digital receivers....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/08/2003
Digital transition in the US - and public duty
Adelstein Addresses DTV Transition, Public Interest
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/news/world...in_fcc.htm
Fox Sports Plays HD [Paid Subscription Required]
Fox Sports Net plunged into the HDTV business last week with Time Warner Cable, launching high-definition programming across six networks that will cover 96 games over the next several months. The rollout marked FSN's first foray into HDTV production for any of its regional sports networks. And it marks the largest mass deployment of regional HD content in the cable industry....
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...12/08/2003
HDTV Key to Staving Off DBS [Paid Subscription Required]
Anaheim, Calif. -- News Corp.'s pending acquisition of a controlling interest in DirecTV parent Hughes Electronics should be a wake-up call for the cable industry to push new services like HDTV.
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...aking+News
Execs: Murdoch Move Should Boost HDTV [Paid Subscription Required]
Anaheim, Calif.— News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch's pending acquisition of a controlling interest in DirecTV Inc. parent Hughes Electronics Corp. should be a wake-up call for the cable industry to push new services like HDTV, according to a panel here last Thursday. Carmel Group chairman Jimmy Schaeffler estimated that 90% of DBS subscriber growth in 2003 is expected to come directly fr......
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...12/08/2003
HDTV reaches mainstream
Prices drop as TV buyers move toward sharper image
(CBS MarketWatch / Always On)
cbs.marketwatch.com/news/...ist=google
www.alwayson-network.com/...5_0_21_0_C
A beginner discovers some complications with HDTV
(Atlanta, GA Journal-Constitution)
www.ajc.com/business/cont...usted.html
HDTV buying information
(Palm Beach, FL Post)
www.palmbeachpost.com/acc...a008c.html
HDTV Day at News Channel 3
(WREG Memphis, TN)
www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=1551760
Industry Roundup
Screener ban blocked; flat panel fray intensifies; NCTA says "No" to NAB; TiVo gets hammered.
(Stereophile Guide to Home Theater Magazine)
www.guidetohometheater.co...03roundup/
Carlton secures Rainbow HDTV deal
(Advanced Television)
www.advanced-television.c....htm#carlt
Here Come the HDTV Recorders!
(ExtremeTech)
www.extremetech.com/artic...X1K0000565
Panasonic Introduces 3.5-Pound Go-Anywhere Projector Targeted for the 'Sub-$1000' Category
(Business Wire / StockWatch)
home.businesswire.com/por...view_popup
new.stockwatch.com/newsit...=Panasonic
Canon, Toshiba seed venture for SED flat TVs
(EE Times)
www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20031205S0034
FIFA and Philips sign World Cup widescreen TV deal
(Reuters via Yahoo News)
biz.yahoo.com/rc/031205/t...cer_1.html
Viewers glued to digital TV this Xmas [UK]
(Reuters)
www.reuters.co.uk/newsPac...ction=news
How to see a Freeview of the future [UK]
Britons have been slow to leave analogue TV - until now. David Smith reports on the box that's responsible
(Observer / Guardian)
observer.guardian.co.uk/f...54,00.html
media.guardian.co.uk/digi...35,00.html
Price-drop.tv launches on DTTV [UK]
(Advanced Television)
www.advanced-television.c...tm#procema
Impatient government acts on digital TV plan [Hong Kong]
The Hong Kong government will go ahead with its long-delayed digital terrestrial television plan despite not knowing which standard the mainland will adopt
(South China Morning Post via Asia Pacific Media Network)
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/ar...entid=5440
Free-to-air digital TV `in 2006' [Hong Kong]
(Hong Kong Standard)
www.thestandard.com.hk/th...intcatid=1
Hong Kong proposes DTT by 2006 [Hong Kong]
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/news/world...g_2006.htm
MIC, KBC, Conflicts With Digital TV Arrangements [Korea]
(donga.com)
english.donga.com/srv/ser...3120699088
Ministry, Regulator Lock Horns over Digital TV Timetable [Korea]
(Chosun Ilbo)
english.chosun.com/w21dat...50005.html
Japan launches digital terrestrial TV [Japan]
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/latest/lat...se_dtt.htm
Digital broadcasting perks come slowly [Japan]
(Melbourne Age / Sydney Morning Herald)
www.theage.com.au/article...10606.html
www.smh.com.au/articles/2...10606.html
DBA Technology Group appoints chairman [Australia]
(Digital Broadcasting Australia)
www.dba.org.au/index.asp?...newsID=475
1,119 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
Suddenly It's Hip To Spectrum-Split [Paid Subscription Required]
When ABC's Preston Padden and Sinclair's David Smith talked up digital multicasting in 1997, the suggestion landed both in hot water in then HDTV-crazed Washington. It also prompted other broadcasters to accuse them of selling out high-def. This fall, though, news that NBC and ABC are working with their affiliates to develop locally oriented multicasting services generated hardly a ripple....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/08/2003
Must-Carry, But Through the Back Door [Paid Subscription Required]
The National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for Maximum Service Television have cooked up a complicated plan that would give a station the power to force a local cable system to carry either the old analog signal or the new digital one but not both. That's the theory, anyway. Under current rules, stations can invoke must-carry for only the analog signal....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/08/2003
Multicast Must-Carry Is No Answer [Paid Subscription Required]
Lowell Paxson's Airtime (Nov. 24) repeats the sentiment that dual, multicast must-carry is "necessary to ensure a successful [digital] transition." What it does not answer is why. No doubt, compelling high-definition digital program services over the air and by cable are necessary to persuade Americans to buy digital receivers....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/08/2003
Digital transition in the US - and public duty
Adelstein Addresses DTV Transition, Public Interest
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/news/world...in_fcc.htm
Fox Sports Plays HD [Paid Subscription Required]
Fox Sports Net plunged into the HDTV business last week with Time Warner Cable, launching high-definition programming across six networks that will cover 96 games over the next several months. The rollout marked FSN's first foray into HDTV production for any of its regional sports networks. And it marks the largest mass deployment of regional HD content in the cable industry....
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...12/08/2003
HDTV Key to Staving Off DBS [Paid Subscription Required]
Anaheim, Calif. -- News Corp.'s pending acquisition of a controlling interest in DirecTV parent Hughes Electronics should be a wake-up call for the cable industry to push new services like HDTV.
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...aking+News
Execs: Murdoch Move Should Boost HDTV [Paid Subscription Required]
Anaheim, Calif.— News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch's pending acquisition of a controlling interest in DirecTV Inc. parent Hughes Electronics Corp. should be a wake-up call for the cable industry to push new services like HDTV, according to a panel here last Thursday. Carmel Group chairman Jimmy Schaeffler estimated that 90% of DBS subscriber growth in 2003 is expected to come directly fr......
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...12/08/2003
HDTV reaches mainstream
Prices drop as TV buyers move toward sharper image
(CBS MarketWatch / Always On)
cbs.marketwatch.com/news/...ist=google
www.alwayson-network.com/...5_0_21_0_C
A beginner discovers some complications with HDTV
(Atlanta, GA Journal-Constitution)
www.ajc.com/business/cont...usted.html
HDTV buying information
(Palm Beach, FL Post)
www.palmbeachpost.com/acc...a008c.html
HDTV Day at News Channel 3
(WREG Memphis, TN)
www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=1551760
Industry Roundup
Screener ban blocked; flat panel fray intensifies; NCTA says "No" to NAB; TiVo gets hammered.
(Stereophile Guide to Home Theater Magazine)
www.guidetohometheater.co...03roundup/
Carlton secures Rainbow HDTV deal
(Advanced Television)
www.advanced-television.c....htm#carlt
Here Come the HDTV Recorders!
(ExtremeTech)
www.extremetech.com/artic...X1K0000565
Panasonic Introduces 3.5-Pound Go-Anywhere Projector Targeted for the 'Sub-$1000' Category
(Business Wire / StockWatch)
home.businesswire.com/por...view_popup
new.stockwatch.com/newsit...=Panasonic
Canon, Toshiba seed venture for SED flat TVs
(EE Times)
www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20031205S0034
FIFA and Philips sign World Cup widescreen TV deal
(Reuters via Yahoo News)
biz.yahoo.com/rc/031205/t...cer_1.html
Viewers glued to digital TV this Xmas [UK]
(Reuters)
www.reuters.co.uk/newsPac...ction=news
How to see a Freeview of the future [UK]
Britons have been slow to leave analogue TV - until now. David Smith reports on the box that's responsible
(Observer / Guardian)
observer.guardian.co.uk/f...54,00.html
media.guardian.co.uk/digi...35,00.html
Price-drop.tv launches on DTTV [UK]
(Advanced Television)
www.advanced-television.c...tm#procema
Impatient government acts on digital TV plan [Hong Kong]
The Hong Kong government will go ahead with its long-delayed digital terrestrial television plan despite not knowing which standard the mainland will adopt
(South China Morning Post via Asia Pacific Media Network)
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/ar...entid=5440
Free-to-air digital TV `in 2006' [Hong Kong]
(Hong Kong Standard)
www.thestandard.com.hk/th...intcatid=1
Hong Kong proposes DTT by 2006 [Hong Kong]
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/news/world...g_2006.htm
MIC, KBC, Conflicts With Digital TV Arrangements [Korea]
(donga.com)
english.donga.com/srv/ser...3120699088
Ministry, Regulator Lock Horns over Digital TV Timetable [Korea]
(Chosun Ilbo)
english.chosun.com/w21dat...50005.html
Japan launches digital terrestrial TV [Japan]
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/latest/lat...se_dtt.htm
Digital broadcasting perks come slowly [Japan]
(Melbourne Age / Sydney Morning Herald)
www.theage.com.au/article...10606.html
www.smh.com.au/articles/2...10606.html
DBA Technology Group appoints chairman [Australia]
(Digital Broadcasting Australia)
www.dba.org.au/index.asp?...newsID=475
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