DTV News for 7-24-2007

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 7-24-2007
574 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting


Dingell Seeks FCC Answers On Set-Tops, Spectrum Auctions
The House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee will hold an FCC oversight hearing July 24, with all the commissioners scheduled to be in attendance and Commerce Chairman John Dingell looking for some answers.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6462132.html

DTV transition portrayed as 'train wreck'
The Media Access Project is warning that the turn-off of analog television is plagued with problems that could doom its success.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/dt ... reck-0723/

Are TV viewers HD-ready?
About half of all new TV sets and displays sold this year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, will be HDTVs, capable of showing crystal-clear video with about six times the resolution of standard TV.
(USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/new ... htm?csp=34

HDTV transition set to cause confusion and opportunities
My guess is that the majority of television-watching American have no idea that in about two years, those analog television signals beaming TV programming to all those television sets will go away permanently in favor of the newer all-digital signals.
(Blogging Stocks)
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/2 ... rtunities/

Older Americans Less Prepared for Digital TV
A new study released by the Association of Public Television Stations finds that older Americans are significantly more likely to receive their television signals over-the-air, and are therefore less prepared than the rest of the U.S. population to transition from analog to digital-only television in 20 months.
(Broadcaster Magazine)
http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issu ... e=07242007

U.S. HDTV homes to reach 52 million by 2008
CEA data says more than 30 million U.S. households already have at least one HDTV set.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/hd ... lion-2008/

Has HDTV's defining moment finally arrived?
In their battle to convert customers to HDTV, cable and satellite systems are hoping CNN's Anderson Cooper, the Food Network's Giada De Laurentiis and HGTV's Joan Steffend can lend a hand.
(USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television ... htm?csp=34



It's Here - The New TiVo HD DVR - The Ultimate HDTV Companion at a Price Consumers Have Been Asking For
The new TiVo(R) HD DVR seamlessly combines ease of use, new content and affordability
(PR Newswire / Yahoo News)
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori ... 190&EDATE=
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070724/aqtu105.html?.v=11

TiVo Targets the Mainstream
Can a low-cost, high-definition digital video recorder clear up TiVo's blurry picture? The pioneer of digital video recording, which finds and automatically records favorite shows to a hard drive, is betting that a sharply lower price for its cutting-edge box will attract millions of new customers this holiday season.
(BusinessWeek via Yahoo News)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20070724/bs_ ... 0723955231

TiVo to sell trimmed down premium TV video recorder
TiVo Inc. introduced a trimmed-down, less expensive version of its digital video recorder for high-definition televisions on Tuesday, hoping to spur mainstream demand 10 months after a pricey first foray was received coolly.
(Reuters / Boston, MA Globe)
http://www.reuters.com/article/televisi ... 0120070724
http://www.boston.com/business/technolo ... _recorder/

TiVo unveils cheaper HD box today
With high-definition television no longer just a high-end item, TiVo is trying to adapt.
(San Jose, CA Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6449077?source=rss

TiVo gearing up for HD fight
It's no secret that TiVo, the groundbreaking digital video company that caught many people's hearts and eyeballs since its inception in 1997, has struggled to maintain market share in recent years due to increased competition from cable and satellite companies.
(San Francisco, CA Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... s.business

TiVo to debut a lower-priced HD digital video recorder
When TiVo Inc. introduced a high-definition digital video recorder last fall, they touted the long-awaited set-top box as a best-in-class product with a price tag to match.
(Associated Press via KUSA-TV Denver, CO / Washington, DC Post / Baltimore, MD Sun)
http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=74139
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00035.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/ ... ?track=rss

TiVo Debuts $299 HD DVR for Cable
As part of a lobbying campaign to win the hearts and minds of cable operators, TiVo is expected to announce Tuesday a lower-priced HD DVR, the TiVo HD box, which, at $299, is nearly one-third the price of the $799 TiVo Series 3 HD DVR. Scheduled to be available in retail channels in August, TiVo HD is designed