DTV News for 1-18-2006

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 1-18-2006
347 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

No additional DTV legislation expected in 2006
The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet said his panel would not consider additional legislation this year relating to digital television.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/newslet ... /20060116/#

Congress Takes Aim at 'Analog Hole'
"Hollywood wants to put a mark -- sort of like a mark of the beast for video content -- that says that this is MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) content, and we want to control what you can do with it," Fred von Lohmann, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, told TechNewsWorld.
(TechNewsWorld via E-Commerce Times)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/48335.html

When They Pull The Plug On Analog HD Broadcasts, Will You Be Ready?
PureLink Adapts Users To 2009 HD Transition
(eCoustics.com)
http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/ ... 90372.html

Fitch Report: U.S. Telecom Industry Regulatory Review
(Business Wire via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060117/20060117005932.html?.v=1

High-definition Super Bowl flagged
(Greensboro, NC News Record)
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... /601170333


Digital Television, Part 1: Making Sense of it all
(Engadget)
http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/17/digi ... of-it-all/

Common questions about high definition TV
(NNPA via Toledo, OH Journal)
http://www.thetoledojournal.com/news/Ar ... 411&sID=24


EchoStar: HDTV Plus Satellite Equals Profits
New high-definition video points to accelerating growth at this independent satellite TV company.
(Kiplinger Online)
http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinanc ... ck0117.htm

Sports Fans Driving HDTV Purchases
New findings from the Consumer Electronics Association determine that around half of current HDTV owners purchased because of HD sports programming.
(DesignTechnica)
http://news.designtechnica.com/article9301.html

Sports Fans Drive HD Television Sales According to New Survey
Sports Fans Quickly Adopt New Delivery Platforms of Sports Content Including Internet and Wireless
(Business Wire via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060117/20060117006027.html?.v=1

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