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By Rodolfo La Maestra • Dec 31, 7:30pmOn July 2006, based on an estimate of the number of households who rely solely on OTA television broadcasts, the U.S.
Commerce Department proposed coupons for an estimated 21 million U.S.
households to aid the purchase of converter boxes,
Congress passed a law providing an initial $990 million dollars within a $1.5 billion program to subsidize the purchase of converter boxes By Rodolfo La Maestra • Dec 18, 5:07pmThis part in the series discusses the implementation of tuner integration, its timing within the DTV Transition, and its impact on existing and future DTVs.
I will talk about over-the-air (OTA) and cable reception, integrated tuners and set-top-boxes (STBs), and satellite STBs.
This is an analysis of the facts related to tuner integration as implemented over the past 6 years within the 10-year DTV transition, and how those facts affect consumers depending on the service they use (broadcast, cable, satellite, or Telco).
At closing I will also identify... By Rodolfo La Maestra • Nov 3, 5:42pmThis part is dedicated to tuner integration and the role it was expected to play in the DTV Transition.
As mentioned in part 3 of this series, 15 million households have over-the-air-only TVs, and many cable/satellite subscribers may also tune broadcast on their secondary TVs.
Would DTV tuner integration address this situation?... By Rodolfo La Maestra • Oct 27, 4:58pmPart 3 of the series has the objective of helping the reader get a general picture of the adoption of digital TVs; the growing of the DTV installed base, household coverage, the combined conditions of both to meet the deadline of the DTV Transition and a projection for the eventual replacement of the full inventory of analog TVs within the US.
Over recent years some of the figures tossed by... By Rodolfo La Maestra • Oct 23, 4:18pmPart 2 is dedicated to some technical aspects and benefits brought by the DTV implementation.
DTV includes HDTV and SDTV, HDTV is a major improvement having 9 times the image quality of analog just in resolution terms, and SD is efficient enough to be able to broadcast 4-6 SD channels over the same bandwidth reserved for one HD channel (or one analog channel) in areas where that line up is needed.
DTV also allows for the simultaneous broadcasting of both HD and SD, whereby SD uses part of the bandwidth required for HD on the same channel slot, which could be a good benefit, but could possibly harm the quality of the parallel HD program if overused.
DTV also has... By Ed Milbourn • Oct 22, 4:22pmSpurred on by the technical and economic success of digitally produced and distributed motion pictures, the inevitable emergence of the third dimension of consumer HD is upon us.
Consider the following items... By The HT Guys • Oct 21, 4:12pmWe reviewed the original Slingbox way back in 2005.
Ara currently has two of them and has been able to watch TV from his hotel in Chicago, Denver, and Europe.
But the main way the Slingbox is used in the Derderian family is to extend TV reception to any room in the house.
While the Slingbox works well via the Internet it works really well on your local network.
The issue with Internet usage is bandwidth.
First, if your upstream bandwidth is limited, it really doesn't matter how much downstream bandwidth you have.
In Ara's home the upstream is capped at 1 Mbps although lately I have exceeded that.
When we saw the Slingbox PRO-HD come to market we were very excited.
We realize that... By Rodolfo La Maestra • Oct 20, 6:25pmThe purpose of this series of articles is to help the public and the industry with the Digital Television (DTV) transition, and to motivate you to help others.
Due to the imminent DTV transition deadline of February 17, 2009, and because the subject is complicated to many in the public, it deserves to be explained in detail, so I will cover the topic in several articles within the series of "DTV Transition - Can YOU Help?"
If you are interested in a more in-depth analysis of the evolution of the DTV implementation... More ...By Ed Milbourn • Oct 7, 4:48pm • BroadcastBy The HT Guys • Oct 7, 2:40am • Blu-ray MoviesBy The HT Guys • Sep 22, 2:38pm • AntennasBy Richard Fisher • Jul 31, 3:16pm • TechnologyBy Richard Fisher • Jun 19, 7:24pm • HDTV AccessoriesBy Richard Fisher • Jun 12, 7:32pm • Service & RepairBy The HT Guys • Jun 10, 1:30am • Media PlayersBy The HT Guys • May 20, 4:23pm • HDTV DisplaysBy Robert A. Fowkes • May 16, 4:08pm • Technology |
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