DTV News for 4-2-2007

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 4-2-2007
687 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting


Free No More: Conversion to Digital TV Carries a Price Tag
Feb. 17, 2009 is DTV Day
(ConsumerAffairs.Com)
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2 ... al_tv.html

Lawmakers Bicker Over Boxes
A crystal clear picture emerged Wednesday from a recent House subcommittee hearing on the status of the digital television transition: No one can agree on how many analog TVs there are, much less how many signal converters will be necessary to keep them working after analog broadcasting ends Feb. 17, 2009.
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/pages/s.0014/t.4139.html

Parties Bicker Over DTV-Box Funding
House Democrats and Republicans clashed last Wednesday over whether a $1.5 billion federal fund is enough to ensure that millions of analog TV sets keep working after all broadcasters begin sending TV signals in digits in early 2009.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... op+Stories

SBCA Joins DTV Transition Group
Washington