DTV News for 5-30-2006

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 5-30-2006
994 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

Affiliates Protest DTV Terms in Stevens Bill
The independent affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox are protesting provisions in a Senate telecommunications bill that relate to cable-system carriage of digital-broadcast signals until 2014.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... aking+News

NAB Opposes HDTV Downconversion
The National Association of Broadcasters has joined the network affiliate associations in opposing language in a Senate bill that would allow cable to convert broadcasters' HDTV signals to standard-definition DTV.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News


NHK demos UHD TV broadcast
(EE Times / Electronic Engineering Times Asia)
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArti ... =188500682
http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800419582_4 ... 530_no.HTM


Hitachi's 42-Inch Plasmas Do 1080
(Home Theater Magazine)
http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/

Hitachi HDPJ 52 LCD Projector
(Ultimate AV)
http://www.guidetohometheater.com/video ... 06hitachi/

Hitachi Launches Flat-Panel Lines
New York