DTV News for 7-25-2005
524 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
The Digital Picture Needs Fine-Tuning
It is time for Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to lay out a clear plan for the transition from analog to digital television that includes protections for consumers, a compromise path for broadcast and cable over the tricky issue of must-carry, a plan for helping low-income viewers, clear labeling for all TV sets and a plan for public interest broadcasting.
(TelevisionWeek)
www.tvweek.com/article.cm...leId=28436
JupiterResearch Forecasts Digital Video Recorders Will be in Nearly Half of All U.S. Households Within Five Years
JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, today released its annual digital television (DTV) forecast entitled, "U.S. DTV Forecast, 2005-2010," which presents JupiterResearch's latest projections of the growth of digital television, including HDTV, in U.S. households.
(Business Wire via Yahoo News)
biz.yahoo.com/bw/050721/215469.html?.v=1
Picture bright for U.S. digital TV industry
Makers of high-definition television sets and digital video recorders are looking at a windfall, with nearly half the households in the United States expected to get a DVR by decade's end, a study says.
(CNET News.com / ZDNet News)
news.com.com/Picture+brig...00183.html
news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5800183.html
Jupiter: Digital TV Set To Explode, DVR, HDTV Penetration At Critical Mass
(Media Daily News)
publications.mediapost.co..._aid=32346
Half Of U.S. Households Expected To Own DVRs
(TechWeb News)
www.techweb.com/showArtic...=166401627
DVRs Seen in Nearly Half U.S. Homes by 2010
JupiterResearch projects DVRs will be in 47 percent of U.S. homes—and 63 percent will have HDTV—by 2010.
(DesignTechnica)
news.designtechnica.com/article7918.html
DTV to NTSC - Issues Remain in U.S. Transition
What seemed like a never-ending story may actually come to a conclusion.
(Broadcaster Magazine)
www.broadcastermagazine.c...e=07192005
Digital TV: Tech sees new uses in old spectrum
A two-decade debate in Washington, D.C., over the television spectrum now occupied in the U.S. by some analog TV stations may come to an end this year, with IT vendors and broadband users the beneficiaries.
(IDG News Service via IT World)
www.itworld.com/Tech/2987...digitaltv/
Spectrum Battle Heats Up
First responders need bandwidth for comms
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...ttle.shtml
Fritts appeals to Congress for multicasting support on cable
Cable association leader Kyle McSlarrow says doing so would be harmful to consumers.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...22/#Fritts
Letter from NAB President Edward O. Fritts to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex) thanking her for supporting the multicasting DTV carriage issue [Adobe PDF File]
(National Association of Broadcasters)
www.nab.org/newsroom/pres...-22-05.pdf
Shapiro tells committee "disenfranchisement" claims are exaggerated
The CEA chief told lawmakers that a survey revealed 87 percent of the 110 million U.S. TV households are receiving local and national broadcast programming via cable or satellite.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...2/#Shapiro
Don't throw out that old TV yet
(Pueblo, CO Chieftain)
www.chieftain.com/business/1122213601/2
Crossing the digital TV divide
Cable TV joins in offering first true high-def package
(Pueblo, CO Chieftain)
www.chieftain.com/business/1122213601/1
New TVs don't pass FCC test
Despite FCC mandates, many digital sets on the market don't have the required tuners included.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...0724/#test
HD May Be too Good to Last
I've gone gaga over HDTV, even though there still isn't a lot of programming available. As when color TV began, you find yourself watching something because of the process in which it's being transmitted, not because of the content.
(Television Week)
www.tvweek.com/article.cm...leId=28464
HDNet: Ready for Launch [Paid Subscription Required]
The high-def network will cover space shuttle Discovery's second attempt at a launch on Tuesday.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
HDNet reups with PanAmSat [Paid Subscription Required]
HDNet and PanAmSat have agreed on a long-term extension of its current multi-transponder deal that sends out HDNet to U.S. cable and DBS operators. The deal now runs through 2021.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
UPN gives HD a 10 [Paid Subscription Required]
UPN says it will broadcast 10 of its series in high-definition this fall, the network's largest HD offering to date.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
NFL Network airs 15 preseason games in HDTV
(NFL.com)
www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/8664135
Preseason Pigskin Set for HD [Paid Subscription Required]
Are you ready for some football—in high-def? The National Football League will telecast 15 pre-season games in HDTV over the NFL Network.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
HD Pioneers Join Forces for Independent Feature
(HDTV Buyer / Digital Video Editing)
www.hdtvbuyer.com/article...p?id=33604
www.digitalvideoediting.c...p?id=33604
Event Distributors Begin to Jab at HD [Paid Subscription Required]
Production Costs Have Prevented A Full Embrace For the Format
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...y+Per+View
TV Shows in Dolby Digital 5.1 Receive 20 Emmy Nominations
(Broadcast Newsroom)
www.broadcastnewsroom.com...p?id=33637
Television Programs Presented In Dolby Digital 5.1 Receive 20 Sound-Related Emmy Nominations
(Widescreen Review)
www.widescreenreview.com/...ecid=10148
High Definition Comes To Videogames at E3
This year's E3 blast in Los Angeles in mid-May offered conclusive proof of why the videogame industry can claim its revenues of about $12 billion are "bigger than Hollywood."
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...rlen.shtml
What About the Tiny TVs? [The Masked Engineer: Mario Orazio]
You might not have noticed that there are numbers smaller than 13. I point this out because the FCC, Our Beloved Commish, seems to have just made the discovery.
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...azio.shtml
Several Issues Cloud Picture With New HDTV Set
The digital-TV transition can still seem a fuzzy, far-off thing, even though it's now been almost seven years since the first customer took home a high-definition digital set.
(Washington, DC Post via Hartford, CT Courant)
www.courant.com/technolog...&track=rss
New LCD and plasma TVs show their strengths
(Independent Online)
www.iol.co.za/index.php?s...342656R131
Samsung and Sony, the Clashing Titans, Try Teamwork
(New York Times via Lakeland, FL Ledger)
www.theledger.com/apps/pb...1/BUSINESS
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24-inch LCD Display
Big, wide flat panel offers exquisite output, low price, unique features
(Broadcast Newsroom / HDTV Buyer)
www.broadcastnewsroom.com...p?id=33448
www.hdtvbuyer.com/article...p?id=33448
Gateway Tunes Out TVs
Gateway has turned off its televisions.
(PC Magazine)
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,...273,00.asp
Yamaha DPX-1200 DLP projector
(Ultimate AV)
www.guidetohometheater.co...705yamaha/
MSTV, NAB extend set top box RFQ deadline
The RFQ includes the target parameters and specifications for a prototype terrestrial digital converter box.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...0722/#MSTV
Deadline Extended for DTV Converter Proposals [Paid Subscription Required]
The National Association of Broadcasters and Association for Maximum Service Television Stations pushed back a deadline for proposals to develop low-cost DTV converter boxes to July 29.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
Tech-Note #131 [Adobe PDF File]
(Tech-Notes)
www.tech-notes.tv/Archive...es_131.pdf
Measuring the ASI Bitstream
The importance of monitoring throughout the MPEG signal chain
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat..._asi.shtml
The Superheterodyne Concept and Reception [Charles W. Rhodes]
Today we don't use vacuum tubes in receivers, but all radio and TV receivers use Armstrong's superheterodyne receiver principle. The strengths and weaknesses of this invention are important to the future of terrestrial TV broadcasting, so please read on ; you can quickly become an expert on superheterodyne receivers and amaze your boss.
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...odes.shtml
Tackling HDV Editing: At the Starting Gate
HDV was one of the hits of NAB2005. Now, as the dust is starting to settle, trying to survey the spectrum of how major editing manufacturers are tackling the challenge of posting that long-GOP (group of pictures) format is almost as daunting as squeezing a massive high-definition recording onto a tiny DV tape.
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...eney.shtml
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Québec, Quebec. APPROVED [Canada]
Transitional digital television undertaking in association with CBVT Québec. The licence will expire on 31 August 2007.
(Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)
www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/EN...05-344.htm
ETSI approves DMB standard for mobile TV
The European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) has approved the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) standards for the delivery of mobile television services.
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...93&id=1028
'Olympics could put back London switchover' [UK]
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...93&id=1031
Digital Switchover Statement by the Secretary of State [UK]
(Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
www.digitaltelevision.gov...nt_ds.html
Welsh analogue-to-digital TV switchover trial is a success [UK]
(PublicTechnology.net)
www.publictechnology.net/...e&sid=3322
Welsh switchover project 'a success' [UK]
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...93&id=1032
DVB-H test to begin in Spain [Spain]
The pilot project will take place in Madrid and Barcelona between September 2005 and February 2006.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...50722/#DVB
Focus - Digital divide [Malta]
Many are wondering what the hype surrounding digital TV is all about. MASSIMO FARRUGIA looks into some aspects of the new technology and why some of the broadcasters are unhappy with the latest policies.
(Times of Malta)
www.timesofmalta.com/core...?id=194093
Italy regulator sees digital TV loosening Mediaset, RAI mkt grip [Italy]
(Interactive Investor)
www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=...on=article
Mediaset launches DTT movies on demand [Italy]
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...=0&id=1033
Analysis: China Allows Private Investment in March to Digital TV [China]
(BBC Monitoring Media Services via RedNova)
www.rednova.com/news/disp...technology
Gov't to help land-based digital broadcasters outside big cities [Japan]
(Kyodo via Yahoo News)
asia.news.yahoo.com/05072...b9vg1.html
Force HD receiver now available [Australia]
(Digital Broadcasting Australia)
www.dba.org.au/index.asp?...newsID=689
524 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
The Digital Picture Needs Fine-Tuning
It is time for Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to lay out a clear plan for the transition from analog to digital television that includes protections for consumers, a compromise path for broadcast and cable over the tricky issue of must-carry, a plan for helping low-income viewers, clear labeling for all TV sets and a plan for public interest broadcasting.
(TelevisionWeek)
www.tvweek.com/article.cm...leId=28436
JupiterResearch Forecasts Digital Video Recorders Will be in Nearly Half of All U.S. Households Within Five Years
JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, today released its annual digital television (DTV) forecast entitled, "U.S. DTV Forecast, 2005-2010," which presents JupiterResearch's latest projections of the growth of digital television, including HDTV, in U.S. households.
(Business Wire via Yahoo News)
biz.yahoo.com/bw/050721/215469.html?.v=1
Picture bright for U.S. digital TV industry
Makers of high-definition television sets and digital video recorders are looking at a windfall, with nearly half the households in the United States expected to get a DVR by decade's end, a study says.
(CNET News.com / ZDNet News)
news.com.com/Picture+brig...00183.html
news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5800183.html
Jupiter: Digital TV Set To Explode, DVR, HDTV Penetration At Critical Mass
(Media Daily News)
publications.mediapost.co..._aid=32346
Half Of U.S. Households Expected To Own DVRs
(TechWeb News)
www.techweb.com/showArtic...=166401627
DVRs Seen in Nearly Half U.S. Homes by 2010
JupiterResearch projects DVRs will be in 47 percent of U.S. homes—and 63 percent will have HDTV—by 2010.
(DesignTechnica)
news.designtechnica.com/article7918.html
DTV to NTSC - Issues Remain in U.S. Transition
What seemed like a never-ending story may actually come to a conclusion.
(Broadcaster Magazine)
www.broadcastermagazine.c...e=07192005
Digital TV: Tech sees new uses in old spectrum
A two-decade debate in Washington, D.C., over the television spectrum now occupied in the U.S. by some analog TV stations may come to an end this year, with IT vendors and broadband users the beneficiaries.
(IDG News Service via IT World)
www.itworld.com/Tech/2987...digitaltv/
Spectrum Battle Heats Up
First responders need bandwidth for comms
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...ttle.shtml
Fritts appeals to Congress for multicasting support on cable
Cable association leader Kyle McSlarrow says doing so would be harmful to consumers.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...22/#Fritts
Letter from NAB President Edward O. Fritts to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex) thanking her for supporting the multicasting DTV carriage issue [Adobe PDF File]
(National Association of Broadcasters)
www.nab.org/newsroom/pres...-22-05.pdf
Shapiro tells committee "disenfranchisement" claims are exaggerated
The CEA chief told lawmakers that a survey revealed 87 percent of the 110 million U.S. TV households are receiving local and national broadcast programming via cable or satellite.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...2/#Shapiro
Don't throw out that old TV yet
(Pueblo, CO Chieftain)
www.chieftain.com/business/1122213601/2
Crossing the digital TV divide
Cable TV joins in offering first true high-def package
(Pueblo, CO Chieftain)
www.chieftain.com/business/1122213601/1
New TVs don't pass FCC test
Despite FCC mandates, many digital sets on the market don't have the required tuners included.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...0724/#test
HD May Be too Good to Last
I've gone gaga over HDTV, even though there still isn't a lot of programming available. As when color TV began, you find yourself watching something because of the process in which it's being transmitted, not because of the content.
(Television Week)
www.tvweek.com/article.cm...leId=28464
HDNet: Ready for Launch [Paid Subscription Required]
The high-def network will cover space shuttle Discovery's second attempt at a launch on Tuesday.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
HDNet reups with PanAmSat [Paid Subscription Required]
HDNet and PanAmSat have agreed on a long-term extension of its current multi-transponder deal that sends out HDNet to U.S. cable and DBS operators. The deal now runs through 2021.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
UPN gives HD a 10 [Paid Subscription Required]
UPN says it will broadcast 10 of its series in high-definition this fall, the network's largest HD offering to date.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
NFL Network airs 15 preseason games in HDTV
(NFL.com)
www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/8664135
Preseason Pigskin Set for HD [Paid Subscription Required]
Are you ready for some football—in high-def? The National Football League will telecast 15 pre-season games in HDTV over the NFL Network.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
HD Pioneers Join Forces for Independent Feature
(HDTV Buyer / Digital Video Editing)
www.hdtvbuyer.com/article...p?id=33604
www.digitalvideoediting.c...p?id=33604
Event Distributors Begin to Jab at HD [Paid Subscription Required]
Production Costs Have Prevented A Full Embrace For the Format
(Multichannel News)
www.multichannel.com/arti...y+Per+View
TV Shows in Dolby Digital 5.1 Receive 20 Emmy Nominations
(Broadcast Newsroom)
www.broadcastnewsroom.com...p?id=33637
Television Programs Presented In Dolby Digital 5.1 Receive 20 Sound-Related Emmy Nominations
(Widescreen Review)
www.widescreenreview.com/...ecid=10148
High Definition Comes To Videogames at E3
This year's E3 blast in Los Angeles in mid-May offered conclusive proof of why the videogame industry can claim its revenues of about $12 billion are "bigger than Hollywood."
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...rlen.shtml
What About the Tiny TVs? [The Masked Engineer: Mario Orazio]
You might not have noticed that there are numbers smaller than 13. I point this out because the FCC, Our Beloved Commish, seems to have just made the discovery.
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...azio.shtml
Several Issues Cloud Picture With New HDTV Set
The digital-TV transition can still seem a fuzzy, far-off thing, even though it's now been almost seven years since the first customer took home a high-definition digital set.
(Washington, DC Post via Hartford, CT Courant)
www.courant.com/technolog...&track=rss
New LCD and plasma TVs show their strengths
(Independent Online)
www.iol.co.za/index.php?s...342656R131
Samsung and Sony, the Clashing Titans, Try Teamwork
(New York Times via Lakeland, FL Ledger)
www.theledger.com/apps/pb...1/BUSINESS
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24-inch LCD Display
Big, wide flat panel offers exquisite output, low price, unique features
(Broadcast Newsroom / HDTV Buyer)
www.broadcastnewsroom.com...p?id=33448
www.hdtvbuyer.com/article...p?id=33448
Gateway Tunes Out TVs
Gateway has turned off its televisions.
(PC Magazine)
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,...273,00.asp
Yamaha DPX-1200 DLP projector
(Ultimate AV)
www.guidetohometheater.co...705yamaha/
MSTV, NAB extend set top box RFQ deadline
The RFQ includes the target parameters and specifications for a prototype terrestrial digital converter box.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...0722/#MSTV
Deadline Extended for DTV Converter Proposals [Paid Subscription Required]
The National Association of Broadcasters and Association for Maximum Service Television Stations pushed back a deadline for proposals to develop low-cost DTV converter boxes to July 29.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News
Tech-Note #131 [Adobe PDF File]
(Tech-Notes)
www.tech-notes.tv/Archive...es_131.pdf
Measuring the ASI Bitstream
The importance of monitoring throughout the MPEG signal chain
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat..._asi.shtml
The Superheterodyne Concept and Reception [Charles W. Rhodes]
Today we don't use vacuum tubes in receivers, but all radio and TV receivers use Armstrong's superheterodyne receiver principle. The strengths and weaknesses of this invention are important to the future of terrestrial TV broadcasting, so please read on ; you can quickly become an expert on superheterodyne receivers and amaze your boss.
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...odes.shtml
Tackling HDV Editing: At the Starting Gate
HDV was one of the hits of NAB2005. Now, as the dust is starting to settle, trying to survey the spectrum of how major editing manufacturers are tackling the challenge of posting that long-GOP (group of pictures) format is almost as daunting as squeezing a massive high-definition recording onto a tiny DV tape.
(TV Technology)
www.tvtechnology.com/feat...eney.shtml
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Québec, Quebec. APPROVED [Canada]
Transitional digital television undertaking in association with CBVT Québec. The licence will expire on 31 August 2007.
(Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)
www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/EN...05-344.htm
ETSI approves DMB standard for mobile TV
The European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) has approved the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) standards for the delivery of mobile television services.
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...93&id=1028
'Olympics could put back London switchover' [UK]
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...93&id=1031
Digital Switchover Statement by the Secretary of State [UK]
(Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
www.digitaltelevision.gov...nt_ds.html
Welsh analogue-to-digital TV switchover trial is a success [UK]
(PublicTechnology.net)
www.publictechnology.net/...e&sid=3322
Welsh switchover project 'a success' [UK]
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...93&id=1032
DVB-H test to begin in Spain [Spain]
The pilot project will take place in Madrid and Barcelona between September 2005 and February 2006.
(Broadcast Engineering)
broadcastengineering.com/...50722/#DVB
Focus - Digital divide [Malta]
Many are wondering what the hype surrounding digital TV is all about. MASSIMO FARRUGIA looks into some aspects of the new technology and why some of the broadcasters are unhappy with the latest policies.
(Times of Malta)
www.timesofmalta.com/core...?id=194093
Italy regulator sees digital TV loosening Mediaset, RAI mkt grip [Italy]
(Interactive Investor)
www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=...on=article
Mediaset launches DTT movies on demand [Italy]
(Digital TV Group)
griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/n...=0&id=1033
Analysis: China Allows Private Investment in March to Digital TV [China]
(BBC Monitoring Media Services via RedNova)
www.rednova.com/news/disp...technology
Gov't to help land-based digital broadcasters outside big cities [Japan]
(Kyodo via Yahoo News)
asia.news.yahoo.com/05072...b9vg1.html
Force HD receiver now available [Australia]
(Digital Broadcasting Australia)
www.dba.org.au/index.asp?...newsID=689
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