523 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting Support Grows For '09 Analog TV Cutoff Date Washington - Efforts to craft legislation to complete the digital television transition hit the floor of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, with most committee members and participants - including the broadcasting industry - voicing support for a firm 2009 cutoff date for analog TV broadcasting. (This Week in Consumer Electronics) http://www.twice.com/article/CA628951.html?verticalid=820&industry=News&industryid=23096&pubdate=07/25/2005 Belo to Build Next Generation Production Center for WWL-TV, WUPL-TV and NewsWatch on Channel 15 in New Orleans State-of-the-Art Facility Will Provide Full-Digital and HDTV Capabilities (PR Newswire / Yahoo News) http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-25-2005/0004074049&EDATE= WEVV to offer HDTV Installation of equipment halted broadcasts Sunday, Monday (Evansville, IN Courier & Press) http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/ebj/article/0,2578,ECP_19916_3952868,00.html DisplaySearch Launches Comprehensive Quarterly TV Cost and Price Forecast Model Covering All TV Technologies and Sizes (Business Wire via Yahoo News) http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050726/256078.html?.v=1 DTV in Half of U.S. Households in Five Years (MarketNews) http://marketnews.ca/news_detail.asp?nid=904 As analog dims, digital is a clearer choice (Washington Post via NorthJersey.com) http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyOSZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NjcyODk4OCZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTI= 5 Big Screens For Small Budgets (CNET.com via AskMen.com) http://www.askmen.com/toys/mrtech_100/147_tech_gadgets.html Panasonic Seizes Plasma Title With Viera Display Secaucus, N.J.- A determined and unified marketing, sales and product development effort helped Panasonic claim the title of top plasma TV manufacturer over the last 12 months, during which time the company claimed title to the top-selling plasma television model, according to The NPD Group's market research reports. (This Week in Consumer Electronics) http://www.twice.com/article/CA629032.html?verticalid=820&industry=Video&industryid=23099&pubdate=07/25/2005 Sharp says considering boost to LCD TV panel output (Reuters) http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-07-25T133038Z_01_T348362_RTRIDST_0_TECH-JAPAN-SHARP-DC.XML IFA 2005: High definition television - Breakthrough to the second phase (HiddenWires) http://hiddenwires.co.uk/resourcesnews2005/news20050726-01.html IFA 2005: Interfaces of the future: new developments rival scart technology (HiddenWires) http://hiddenwires.co.uk/resourcesnews2005/news20050726-02.html Welsh digital TV switchover trial a success [UK] (Digital Media Europe) http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=9226 Councils unite in fight for terrestrial digital TV [UK] (Norfolk County Council via eGov Monitor) http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/2102