DTV News for 8-25-2005

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 8-25-2005
493 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

USA Network Televises 107.5 Hours Of US Open Tennis Championship Beginning Next Monday
65.5 Hours of Live HD Coverage on Universal HD
(thefutoncritic.com)
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr.cg ... 50824usa01

Unscrambling the high-definition TV picture
(Baltimore, MD Sun)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/ba ... &cset=true


LCD TV vendors disagree on how to survive in tough market
(DigiTimes)
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050825A1001.html

Sony Expands Samsung LCD Partnership
Move designed to boost quality, cut costs.
(Reuters)
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArt ... AMSUNG.XML

Japan market: JEITA schedules CRT TV extinction for 2011
(DigiTimes)
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050825A9053.html


A Poltergeist in My Plasma TV
LG's $5,000 set worked for a month. Then things got weird as the unit developed a disturbing "memory leak"
(BusinessWeek)
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ ... _tc081.htm

Samsung Electronics Gains CableLabs(R) Certification on 2-Way Digital Television
(Business Wire via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050824/245179.html?.v=1

Samsung gets the okay for two-way
Samsung Electronics has become the first television maker to win CableLabs certification for an interactive, two-way digital television equipped with OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) middleware.
(CED Magazine)
http://www.cedmagazine.com/cedailydirec ... 0824.htm#1

Samsung Gets CableLabs OCAP Nod [Paid Subscription Required]
Samsung Electronics announced that it had achieved CableLabs certification status for an OCAP-enabled interactive digital-television set.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... aking+News


DVD war looms as Sony, Toshiba break off talks
(Los Angeles, CA Business)
http://www.bizjournals.com/industries/h ... ily19.html

Format clash set for new DVD market
(Digital TV Group)
http://griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php ... =0&id=1099


High-Definition TV Chip Market Blazing Hot
(Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/050824/tech.html?.v=1

Genesis Sees Light, Will Focus On HDTV
(Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo News)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... 5824tech01


Switchover timetable is poised for approval [UK]
(Digital TV Group)
http://griffin.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php ... 93&id=1102

Sky High Definition TV bursts forth [UK]
This year no. Next year yes
(Inquirer)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25657

Telenor Digital TV Partnership [Norway]
(PrimeZone via Yahoo News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/050825/84565.html

Digital TV partnership [Norway]
NRK, TV 2 Gruppen AS and Telenor Broadcast have entered into a partnership agreement to consider applying for a licence for a digital terrestrial network in Norway. If the partners agree to apply, such application will be submitted by Norges televisjon (NTV), in which the three partners will hold equal ownership shares.
(HUGIN Online)
http://www.huginonline.com/plsql/try/pr ... =5&p_web=5

This year will represent the take-off point for China