DTV News for 7-25-2006

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 7-25-2006
938 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

Cable Households Won't Get Converter Subsidy
Analog-only sets in households that get cable or satellite will not be eligible for government subsidized digital-to-analog converter boxes, according to the National Telecommunications & Information Administration's just-released plan for a converter-box program to ease the switch to digital.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News

Limits proposed on digital TV converter coupons
(Reuters via Los Angeles, CA Times / USA Today)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi ... &cset=true
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techp ... htm?csp=34

Broadcasters want bigger subsidy to help convert TVs
(Bloomberg News via Boston, MA Globe)
http://www.boston.com/business/technolo ... nvert_tvs/

U.S. seeks ideas for DTV converter box scheme
(EE Times)
http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle. ... =191000674
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArti ... =191000674

NAB Statement Regarding NTIA Proposal on DTV Converter Box Voucher Program
(National Association of Broadcasters)
http://www.nab.org/newsroom/pressrel/Re ... erters.htm

Samsung to intro DTV set-top box
Samsung will sell a new a set-top box that receives over-the-air ATSC transmissions.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/newslet ... v_box/?r=1


Schubin Report with Mark Schubin
Latency in control-room monitoring with multi-viewers and new display technologies.
(Schubin Report)
http://www.theschubinreport.com/ [Streaming]
http://www.theschubinreport.com/TSR/the ... report.mp3 [File Download]


FEMA to expand Emergency Alert System
The government has committed $5 million to deploy a new system on 356 public television stations by the end of 2007.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/newslet ... s_eas/?r=1


ABC's Pennsylvania WPVI-TV Goes Hi Def
(MediaWeek)
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/tvstat ... 1002878365

Philadelphia's ABC News Goes HD [Phillip Swann]
High-def broadcast includes HD cameras in the helicopter.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/phillyhdnews072406.htm

WBBM-TV to acquire local HD News with XDCAM
The station deployed Sony XDCAM HD cameras.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/newslet ... dnews/?r=1

Monsters HD Hires Swamp Pitchman
The co-creator of DC Comics