DTV News for 12-22-2003
1,105 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
Comcast Makes Deal for CBS Multicasting [Paid Subscription Required]
In renewing its deal to distribute the cable channels from MTV Networks, No. 1 MSO Comcast also agreed to carry the digital multicast signals of sibling Viacom divisions CBS and UPN. The wide-ranging deal ensures that whatever multicast and high-definition programming CBS and UPN owned-and-operated stations launch will be carried to Comcast subscribers in their respective markets....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/22/2003
TV makers crack down on swapping
Signal-encrypting 'flag' makes 'Napsterization' of digital broadcasts difficult; critics question viability
(Associated Press via Pleasanton, CA Tri-Valley Herald)
www.trivalleyherald.com/S...49,00.html
There's finally something to see on popular Christmas purchases
Pundits have said it so many times that it has become a cliche: "High- definition TV is the biggest change in television since the color picture tube."
(Muskegon, MI Chronicle)
www.mlive.com/news/muchro...546441.xml
Industry Roundup
New LCoS chips from Intel, a high-def LCD projector from Panasonic, sweetheart deals for Viacom, Comcast, NBC and Vivendi.
(Stereophile Guide to Home Theater Magazine)
www.guidetohometheater.co...03roundup/
Cable Put VOD, HD, DVR in the 2003 Mix
New Services Herald the Hi-Def, Digital Revolution
(TelevisionWeek)
www.tvweek.com/technology...cable.html
NCTA Says 2003 Was Year of Continued Progress in Digital TV Transition and Broadband Deployment
(Digital Broadcasting)
www.digitalbroadcasting.c...+Headlines
Key Digital Systems Receives Three Innovations 2004 Design & Engineering Awards at 2004 International CES
(Business Wire)
home.businesswire.com/por...view_popup
New LCD-TV Brands, Rear-Projection Advances To Top CES Trends
LAS VEGAS— An explosion in new flat-panel TV brands, ultra-thin micro-device- based HDTV rear-projection sets and a proliferation in DVD and DVR recorders will mark some of the bigger video trends on display at 2004's International CES. Although most manufacturers held back product specifics until the show, the mushrooming of new LCD TV suppliers in the weeks leading up to the event was a ......
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...tryid=1093
Westinghouse Adds MARTA To Buyer List
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF.— Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a start-up consumer electronics vendor of LCD TVs and other products, said it has reached a distribution deal with the MARTA Buying Cooperative of America. Through the deal, Westinghouse Digital will distribute its lines of LCD TV through the Metropolitan Area Radio and Television Association (MARTA), which has approximately 500......
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...tryid=1093
ADS Technologies Adds HDTV Upconverter To Lineup
CERRITOS, CALIF.— ADS Technologies, a supplier of video capture and editing systems for PCs, has branched out to the world of digital television with the introduction of an outboard HDTV Upconverter that delivers HD and progressive- scan signals from any video source. ADS calls the HDTV Upconverter, which is shipping now at an estimated street price of $599, "ideal for those who have inves......
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...tryid=1093
Dolby Expecting More TV Shows With Pro Logic II
SAN FRANCISCO— Dolby Labs said it expects "a dramatic increase" in TV programming encoded in Dolby Pro Logic II later in the TV season. The encoding technology delivers matrixed surround sound in five full-bandwidth channels over analog stereo-TV broadcasts to homes equipped with Dolby Pro Logic II decoders....
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...ndustryid%
France Télévisions only gets one extra DTT channel [France]
Public broadcaster's 3-channel allocation withdrawn
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/news/world...hannel.htm
1,105 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
Comcast Makes Deal for CBS Multicasting [Paid Subscription Required]
In renewing its deal to distribute the cable channels from MTV Networks, No. 1 MSO Comcast also agreed to carry the digital multicast signals of sibling Viacom divisions CBS and UPN. The wide-ranging deal ensures that whatever multicast and high-definition programming CBS and UPN owned-and-operated stations launch will be carried to Comcast subscribers in their respective markets....
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...12/22/2003
TV makers crack down on swapping
Signal-encrypting 'flag' makes 'Napsterization' of digital broadcasts difficult; critics question viability
(Associated Press via Pleasanton, CA Tri-Valley Herald)
www.trivalleyherald.com/S...49,00.html
There's finally something to see on popular Christmas purchases
Pundits have said it so many times that it has become a cliche: "High- definition TV is the biggest change in television since the color picture tube."
(Muskegon, MI Chronicle)
www.mlive.com/news/muchro...546441.xml
Industry Roundup
New LCoS chips from Intel, a high-def LCD projector from Panasonic, sweetheart deals for Viacom, Comcast, NBC and Vivendi.
(Stereophile Guide to Home Theater Magazine)
www.guidetohometheater.co...03roundup/
Cable Put VOD, HD, DVR in the 2003 Mix
New Services Herald the Hi-Def, Digital Revolution
(TelevisionWeek)
www.tvweek.com/technology...cable.html
NCTA Says 2003 Was Year of Continued Progress in Digital TV Transition and Broadband Deployment
(Digital Broadcasting)
www.digitalbroadcasting.c...+Headlines
Key Digital Systems Receives Three Innovations 2004 Design & Engineering Awards at 2004 International CES
(Business Wire)
home.businesswire.com/por...view_popup
New LCD-TV Brands, Rear-Projection Advances To Top CES Trends
LAS VEGAS— An explosion in new flat-panel TV brands, ultra-thin micro-device- based HDTV rear-projection sets and a proliferation in DVD and DVR recorders will mark some of the bigger video trends on display at 2004's International CES. Although most manufacturers held back product specifics until the show, the mushrooming of new LCD TV suppliers in the weeks leading up to the event was a ......
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...tryid=1093
Westinghouse Adds MARTA To Buyer List
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF.— Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a start-up consumer electronics vendor of LCD TVs and other products, said it has reached a distribution deal with the MARTA Buying Cooperative of America. Through the deal, Westinghouse Digital will distribute its lines of LCD TV through the Metropolitan Area Radio and Television Association (MARTA), which has approximately 500......
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...tryid=1093
ADS Technologies Adds HDTV Upconverter To Lineup
CERRITOS, CALIF.— ADS Technologies, a supplier of video capture and editing systems for PCs, has branched out to the world of digital television with the introduction of an outboard HDTV Upconverter that delivers HD and progressive- scan signals from any video source. ADS calls the HDTV Upconverter, which is shipping now at an estimated street price of $599, "ideal for those who have inves......
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...tryid=1093
Dolby Expecting More TV Shows With Pro Logic II
SAN FRANCISCO— Dolby Labs said it expects "a dramatic increase" in TV programming encoded in Dolby Pro Logic II later in the TV season. The encoding technology delivers matrixed surround sound in five full-bandwidth channels over analog stereo-TV broadcasts to homes equipped with Dolby Pro Logic II decoders....
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
www.twice.com/index.asp?l...ndustryid%
France Télévisions only gets one extra DTT channel [France]
Public broadcaster's 3-channel allocation withdrawn
(Digital Television Group)
www.dtg.org.uk/news/world...hannel.htm
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