Digital move seen blanking up to 80 million TVs(Reuters) http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=televisionNews&storyID=2005-06-29T223858Z_01_N29491180_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-TELEVISION-DIGITAL-DC.XML Consumer groups want U.S. to pay for digital TV converters(St. Louis, MO Post-Dispatch) http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/technology/story/0AAC900ADDB0B78286257030000AB467?OpenDocument CERC Consumer Guide Released: "What You Need to Know About the DTV Transition"''A Dozen Questions & Answers'' (Business Wire / Yahoo News) http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/moreoveruk/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20050629005935&&newsLang=en&beanID=1153550781&viewID=news_view Consumer Groups Want Free DTV Boxes Consumer groups called on Congress to pony up the $4 billion that might be needed to keep millions of analog-TV sets working once TV stations go to all-digital transmission. (Multichannel News) http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA622332.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP New Survey Suggests Digital TV Hardship Nearly four in 10 U.S. households have at least one TV set that relies upon... (MediaWeek) http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000970406 Analog TVs At 70M, Say Consumer Groups [Paid Subscription Required] Consumer Groups say 4 of 10 TV households have at least one set that gets its TV over-the-air and argue the government should have to pay for analog-to-digital converter boxes for all of them. (Broadcasting & Cable) http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA622407.html?display=Breaking+News NAB President and CEO Edward O. Fritts' Statement on Consumers Union/Consumer Federation of America Survey on DTV(National Association of Broadcasters) http://www.nab.org/newsroom/pressrel/statements/062905_CU-CFA_Survey_Statement.htm Consumers Union And Consumer Federation Of America Survey Overstates Over-The-Air Television Viewership, Says CEA Survey Relies on Inaccurate Assumptions; CEA Stands By Its Numbers, Remains Committed to Providing Accurate and Sound Data(Consumer Electronics Association) http://www.ce.org/press_room/press_release_detail.asp?id=10779 DIRECTV Cries Foul on HDTV FeesThe satcaster says a cable consortium is overcharging it to carry two high-def channels. (TVPredictions.com) http://www.tvpredictions.com/directvfoul063005.html Cablers Lack High-Def Content For VODAt Kagan Summit, execs blame piracy concerns (Video Business) http://www.videobusiness.com/article.asp?articleID=10880&catID=3 Higher and higher: HDTV resolution(USA Today / Yahoo News) http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2005-06-29-hdtv-usat_x.htm?csp=34 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050630/bs_usatoday/higherandhigherhdtvresolution Digital video compression and noise The key to efficient compression is noise reduction prior to the compression stage. Michael Robin shows readers how noise adversely affects compression and reveals tips to remove it. (Broadcast Engineering) http://broadcastengineering.com/mag/broadcasting_digital_video_compression_2/ The challenges of datacasting There is a growing demand for educational content delivery systems and local emergency and homeland security alerts, sent and received as digital files. (Broadcast Engineering) http://broadcastengineering.com/mag/broadcasting_challenges_datacasting/ Irish government unveils DTT trial [Ireland](Digital TV Group) http://griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=0&id=976 'How will Switchover affect elderly?' asks UK Govt [UK](Digital TV Group) http://griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=193&id=979 S. Korea To Grant Approvals For Land-Based Mobile TVS By Mid-July [South Korea] (Asia Pulse via Yahoo News) http://au.news.yahoo.com/050630/3/ux0r.html Digital TV Receivers [Australia](Updated 30 June 2005) (Digital Broadcasting Australia) http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=18