DTV News for 9-12-2006

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 9-12-2006
889 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

TiVo Debuts Revolutionary Series3 High Definition Digital Media Recorder
The TiVo Series3 HD Box is the World's first THX Certified DVR and Delivers the Best Home Theater Experience with Advanced Broadband Features and Two CableCARD Slots for Digital Cable Integration
(PR Newswire via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060912/sftu098.html?.v=67

TiVo unveils high-definition DVR
Company's first HDTV recorder priced at $800 and features dual tuners
(Associated Press via Contra Costa, CA Times / Cleveland, OH Plain Dealer )
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cct ... technology
http://www.cleveland.com/business/plain ... xml&coll=2

TiVo starts sales of premium TV video recorder
TiVo Inc. on Tuesday started selling its latest digital video recorder which is capable of displaying high-resolution TV signals, as the recording technology company seeks new subscribers among buyers of premium home theater systems.
(Reuters)
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml ... nologyNews
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... S-TIVO.xml

TiVo Unveils $799 HD DVR [Phillip Swann]
But the high-def recorder might be too pricey for most consumers.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/tivounveils091206.htm

Gemstar-TV Guide, TiVo Ink Deal
Gemstar-TV Guide to Offer TiVo Digital Recorder Scheduling Feature on Its Web Site
(Associated Press via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060911/gemstar_ ... .html?.v=1


New Development for HDNet Wednesday
HDNet will being airing episodes of award-winning comedy Arrested Development Wednesday.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... aking+News

HDNet to Air NHL In HDTV
Season coverage begins on October 5 with Evgeni Malkin's debut.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/hdnethockey091106.htm

WNBC New York First In Market To Go HD
(MediaDailyNews)
http://publications.mediapost.com/index ... _aid=47900

My Problem With DIRECTV & HDTV
DIRECTV this year launched a new High-Definition TV receiver that can send signals of local channels in MPEG-4, a transmission delivery which purportedly offers a sharper, cleaner picture.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/mcevoy091106.htm

DLP(R) HDTV to Be the HD Sponsor on ESPN's Monday Night Football and Exclusive Sponsor of the NFL on FOX's Ultimate HD Picture Cam
Bowl Championship Series on FOX to Promote DLP HDTV as Exclusive HD Display Sponsor
(PR Newswire / Yahoo News / Sys-Con)
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori ... 163&EDATE=
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060911/dam012.html?.v=61
http://www.sys-con.com/read/270492.htm


Dos and don'ts of buying HDTV
To the average TV fan who still watches shows on a 20-year-old, 19-inch picture tube, the acronym HDTV is just a jumbled group of letters about a technology they may be too intimidating to learn.
(Salt Lake City, UT Tribune)
http://www.sltrib.com/homeandfamily/ci_4319249

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Introduces Two 73-inch HDTVs
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., maker of award-winning high-definition home theater products, presented at CEDIA today two 73-inch microdisplay HDTVs that deliver the best large display HD experience possible.
(eCoustics.com)
http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/ ... 68127.html

Panasonic Launches All New LCD Home Theater Projector Providing Consumers with Hollywood Picture Quality at Home
Panasonic PT-AX100U Home Cinema Projector Displays Brightest Images In Its Class(1), Improved Color Reproduction, Resolution and Contrast
(PR Newswire / Yahoo News)
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori ... 668&EDATE=
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060912/nytu076.html?.v=59

New 1080p LCDs From Sharp!
Live! From New York! It's Sharp's 8th Generation LCD Televisions!
(Ultimate AV)
http://www.guidetohometheater.com/news/091006sharp/

First Look: Sony Bravia LCD HDTV
New 40-inch KDL-40XBR2 LCD TV offers fine picture quality and a big screen
(Consumer Reports)
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/elec ... bravia.htm


HD-DVD backers to add three-layer disk
Toshiba Corp. and Memory-Tech Corp. have developed a three-layered hybrid DVD/HD-DVD ROM disk that would enable the reading of two data formats on a single-sided disk.
(EE Times)
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArti ... =192700783

Three-Layer HD DVD/DVD Hybrid Bows
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