DTV News for 1-21-2003

Lee Wood · Post by **Lee Wood** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 8:33 am

DTV News for 1-21-2003   
 1,440 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting  
 
 FCC Bars Analog-Station Shutoff [Paid Subscription Required]  
 A TV station in Southern California has been ordered to continue analog broadcasting even though the station wanted to shift to all-digital broadcasting effective Jan. 1.  
(Multichannel News) 
<a href="http://www.multichannel.com/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=111520&display=breakingNews">www.multichannel.com/inde...eakingNews</a> 
 
 FCC rejects HDTV satellite carriage [Paid Subscription Required]  
 At the moment, digital-only TV stations are not entitled to demand satellite-TV carriage, the FCC said Friday.  
(Broadcasting & Cable) 
<a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=111509&display=breakingNews">www.broadcastingcable.com...eakingNews</a> 
 
 FCC Backs EchoStar in HDTV Dispute [Paid Subscription Required]  
 The only U.S. TV station operating around-the-clock in high-definition format was denied carriage on DBS systems Friday.  
(Multichannel News) 
<a href="http://www.multichannel.com/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=111397&display=breakingNews">www.multichannel.com/inde...eakingNews</a> 
 
 Mark's (Almost) Monday Memo - 2003 January 21  
(Digital Television) 
<a href="http://www.digitaltelevision.com/mondaymemo/mlist/frm01998.html">www.digitaltelevision.com...01998.html</a> 
 
 Tech-Note #113 [PDF File]  
(Tech-Notes) 
<a href="http://www.tech-notes.tv/Archive/tech_notes_113.pdf">www.tech-notes.tv/Archive...es_113.pdf</a> 
 
 Cablevision Launches HD Tier [Paid Subscription Required]  
 Cablevision Systems is launching a high-definition programming package next month.  
(Multichannel News) 
<a href="http://www.multichannel.com/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=111518&display=breakingNews">www.multichannel.com/inde...eakingNews</a> 
 
 Rock Hill, S.C., Cable Firm to Offer High-Definition Television to Customers  
(Rock Hill, SC Herald via NewsAlert) 
<a href="http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CpIEn0aicuKGTq0fcteu&Topic=Digital%20TV&Nav=pr-prmynews-&StoryTitle=Digital%20TV">www.newsalert.com/bin/sto...gital%20TV</a> 
 
 ABC Sports Turns to an Old Friend [Paid Subscription Required]  
 There will no doubt be at least one Super Bowl commercial that will look to exploit the sentimentality attached to watching a reunion: a young boy with a lost puppy, a soldier returning home, and almost surely a man reunited with a beer. That last one is a gimme. For all the on-air reunions, there will also be one off-air reunion at this year's game: the return of the 720p production truck that......  
(Broadcasting & Cable) 
<a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=story_stocks&articleid=CA271340&display=sectionStory&verticalid=311&industry=Technology&pubdate=01/20/2003&STT=000&industryid=1030">www.broadcastingcable.com...tryid=1030</a> 
 
 Fox Sports is racing towards 480p [Paid Subscription Required]  
 Fox Sports will turn its widescreen 480p production machine toward NASCAR.  
(Broadcasting & Cable) 
<a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=111532&display=breakingNews">www.broadcastingcable.com...eakingNews</a> 
 
 HDTV fans need to bone up  
 Selection and price are improving for new medium.  
(Dallas Morning News via Indianapolis, IN Star, / Rutland, VT Herald) 
<a href="http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/9/017000-4629-031.html">www.indystar.com/print/ar...9-031.html</a> 
<a href="http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/Business/Story/59367.html">rutlandherald.nybor.com/B...59367.html</a> 
 
 Super Bowl Still Spurs TV Sales despite Dizzying Array of Choices  
(Bloomington, IN Herald-Times via NewsAlert) 
<a href="http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CpIUcuaicqK0TvfyTqLvz&Topic=Digital%20TV&Nav=pr-prmynews-">www.newsalert.com/bin/sto...-prmynews-</a> 
 
 Time Warner adds WDJT-TV high definition  
(Milwaukee, WI Journal Sentinel) 
<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/jan03/111433.asp">www.jsonline.com/enter/tv...111433.asp</a> 
 
 Sticker shock -- in reverse  
(Portland, OR Oregonian) 
<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/exclude/104272249748720.xml">www.oregonlive.com/living...748720.xml</a> 
 
 Confused about HDTV?  
 Find the answers here  
(WJRT, Flint MI) 
<a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/1012003_NW_HDVT_faq.html">abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news...T_faq.html</a> 
 
 Plasma display vendors defend turf from LCD makers  
(Electronic Business News) 
<a href="http://www.ebnonline.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BX2UNPSELVFUCQSNDBCCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=5900057">www.ebnonline.com/showArt...ID=5900057</a> 
 
 Plasma display vendors faces competition with LCD vendors  
(CMPnetAsia) 
<a href="http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=18396&Catid=1&subcat=65">www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewAr...&subcat=65</a> 
 
 Terayon CherryPicker selected by large US cable TV operator  
 Terayon says CherryPicker will help Charter Communications maximize its bandwidth for high definition TV.  
(Israel Globes Online) 
<a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=655204&fid=942">www.globes.co.il/serveen/...04&fid=942</a> 
 
 Charter Communications Uses Terayon's DM 6400 Network CherryPicker for Its High Definition TV Service  
(PR Newswire) 
<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/01-20-2003/0001874724&EDATE=MON+Jan+20+2003,+08:01+AM">www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bi...,+08:01+AM</a> 
<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-20-2003/0001874724&EDATE=">www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bi...724&EDATE=</a> 
 
 Sapphire Plug-ins Helps Sony