DTV News for 11-13-2003

Lee Wood · Post by **Lee Wood** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:58 am

DTV News for 11-13-2003   
 1,144 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting  
 
 Analogue TV 'dying', says America's APTS  
(Digital Spy) 
<a href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds12319.html">www.digitalspy.co.uk/arti...12319.html</a> 
 
 High time for high definition  
 Two More Stations Go High-Def  
(Kansas City, MO Star) 
<a href="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/7227831.htm">www.kansascity.com/mld/ka...227831.htm</a> 
 
 WTTW Goes All the Way  
 Chicago's PBS station opts for all-new facility for digital transition  
(TV Technology) 
<a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/n_Wttw_goes_all.shtml">www.tvtechnology.com/feat..._all.shtml</a> 
 
 
 Comcast to offer HDTV channels  
(Fort Worth, TX Star-Telegram) 
<a href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/7251484.htm">www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/7251484.htm</a> 
 
 Comcast to Launch HDTV Service in Dallas  
(Dallas, TX Morning News via NewsAlert) 
<a href="http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cp7bS0aicreeTq09nq0ftv&Topic=Digital%20TV&Nav=pr-prmynews-&StoryTitle=Digital%20TV">www.newsalert.com/bin/sto...gital%20TV</a> 
 
 Comcast Launches HDTV Service in Dallas Area  
 Access to High-Definition Television Programming Begins November 15 - Local Celebration Planned Featuring Dallas Native Nick Stahl, Star And Carla Gallo, Co-Star, of HBO's Carnivale Series  
(PR Newswire / Yahoo News) 
<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-12-2003/0002056739&EDATE=">www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bi...739&EDATE=</a> 
<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031112/daw028_1.html">biz.yahoo.com/prnews/0311...028_1.html</a> 
 
 Comcast starting HDTV service in Dallas  
 Comcast Corp. said Wednesday it will launch its high-definition television service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Saturday.  
(Dallas, TX Business Journal) 
<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2003/11/10/daily28.html">www.bizjournals.com/dalla...ily28.html</a> 
 
 Comcast does HD in Dallas  
 Comcast Cable has launched high-definition television services to about 500,000 customers in the Dallas metroplex.  
(CED Magazine) 
<a href="http://www.cedmagazine.com/cedailydirect/1103/cedaily031112.htm#2">www.cedmagazine.com/cedai...1112.htm#2</a> 
 
 Dallas Goes HD Nov. 15 [Paid Subscription Required]  
 Comcast said Wednesday that it will launch HDTV service to 500,000 customers in and around the Dallas metroplex Saturday.  
(Multichannel News) 
<a href="http://www.multichannel.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA335637&display=Breaking+News">www.multichannel.com/inde...aking+News</a> 
 
 
 WLVI-TV, WGN, HDNet Team to Carry Harvard-Yale Game [Paid Subscription Required]  
 Tribune-owned WLVI-TV Cambridge, Mass. is headed for the Ivy League, teaming with WGN Superstation and HDNet to broadcast the120th Harvard-Yale football game.  
(Broadcasting & Cable) 
<a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA335721&display=Breaking+News">www.broadcastingcable.com...aking+News</a> 
 
 
 Aspect Ratio: It Used to Be Easy  
 Although aspect ratio has always been a factor in television, for many decades only one aspect ratio was available: 4:3. With apologies to accomplished punsters, that picture has changed.  
(TV Technology) 
<a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/Tech-Corner/f_technology_corner.shtml">www.tvtechnology.com/feat...rner.shtml</a> 
 
 DTV Interference to Analog TV Reception  
 This month I'll use two recent examples of DTV-to-analog interference to show how I analyzed the interference and determined some possible reasons how it could happen.  
(TV Technology) 
<a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/On-RF/f_rf_technology.shtml">www.tvtechnology.com/feat...logy.shtml</a> 
 
 Upgrading with No Margin for Error  
 Television tower upgrades require scrupulous planning  
(TV Technology) 
<a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/digital-journal/f_digital_journal-11.12.03.shtml">www.tvtechnology.com/feat...2.03.shtml</a> 
 
 Asynchronous Interfaces For Video Servers  
 The ability to ingest and output MPEG-2 streams via an asynchronous serial interface, or ASI, is one of the emerging advances in media storage.  
(TV Technology) 
<a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/Media-Server-Tech/f_media_server.shtml">www.tvtechnology.com/feat...rver.shtml</a> 
 
 
 TERK's new SIR6 outdoor satellite radio antenna and Runco's new CinemaWall CW-42i widescreen flat-panel display.  
(Home Theater Magazine) 
<a href="http://www.hometheatermag.com/news/111203coming/">www.hometheatermag.com/ne...203coming/</a> 
 
 Westinghouse Digital Enters LCD TV Market  
 Westinghouse Digital Transforms Family Entertainment with Line of LCD TVs  
(Business Wire / Yahoo News) 
<a href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/moreover/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20031112005674&newsLang=en&beanID=2055223794&viewID=news_view">home.businesswire.com/por...=news_view</a> 
<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031112/125674_1.html">biz.yahoo.com/bw/031112/125674_1.html</a> 
 
 
 PC-TV Tuner Market to Thrive as Analog Cut-Off Moves Out, Reports In-Stat/MDR  
(Business Wire via NewsAlert) 
<a href="http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cp7mp0bKbmZe3yJa4ote&Topic=Digital%20TV&Nav=pr-prmynews-">www.newsalert.com/bin/sto...-prmynews-</a> 
 
 STMicroelectronics' System-on-Chip Powers 100% of Digital Terrestrial TV Set-Top Boxes for Italian Broadcaster Mediaset's Trial  
 ST Delivers Cost-Effective DVB-MHP Set-Top Box Hardware Platform  
(PR Newswire / Stockwatch) 
<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-13-2003/0002057372&EDATE=">www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bi...372&EDATE=</a> 
<a href="http://new.stockwatch.com/newsit/newsit_newsit.pasp?bid=U-pNYTH016-U:STM-20031113&symbol=STM&news_region=U&name=STMicroelectronics+NV&title=STMicroelectronics">new.stockwatch.com/newsit...lectronics</a>