DTV News for 11-20-2006

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 11-20-2006
820 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

DTV Dealines Approaching
The attorneys at Washington communications company Garvey Schubert Barer remind us that a couple of DTV deadlines are coming due for TV stations next month.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News

Don't Shortchange DTV Switch, Dems Tell NTIA
Newly-empowered Democrats on the Energy & Commerce Committee wasted no time telling the Bush administration not to short-change the DTV transition.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... edesc=news

Could Digital TV Switch Create Another Katrina? [Phillip Swann]
Democratic lawmakers say the federal government is not prepared for the switch from analog to digital signals.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/digitalkatrina111906.htm

Consumers race to meet digital deadline
D-Day is two years away.
(Richmond, VA Times Dispatch)
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Sa ... 5855934855

Scarcity Schism
Content regulation is predicated on spectrum scarcity. Allowing unlicensed devices in taboo TV channels is predicated on the notion that spectrum is plentiful. Help me out here, said Dave Donovan, president of the Association for Maximum Service Television.
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=4395


KLDT Switches To All-Digital
The FCC has granted KLDT-TV Dallas permission to discontinue its analog broadcasts on ch.55 there and move to digital-only broadcasts on its current DTV channel 54.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... edesc=news

WPTZ Now Broadcasting In Digital
WPTZ High Definition Television. It's crisp. It's clear. And it's here!
(WPTZ-TV Plattsburgh, NY)
http://www.wptz.com/station/10318943/de ... a&psp=news

HD Film Festival Schedule Released For HDFEST Los Angeles - Last Stop On The HDFEST 2006 World Tour
(Widescreen Review)
http://www.widescreenreview.com/news_de ... p?id=12334

Is Cox 'Pushing' HDTV? [Phillip Swann]
The cable operator is charged with using 'push-polling' to boost high-def.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/coxpush112006.htm

DIRECTV: Where's My HD PPV?
As a person who likes watching in HD, are you among the frustrated? I am a DIRECTV subscriber and they have been airing the same HDTV Pay Per View movies for about two plus months.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/davisthree111706.htm


The Top Tips for Choosing an HDTV
Buying an HDTV set doesn't require an engineering degree. Just decide how much money you're willing to spend, then buy the set with the picture quality you like most.
(US News & World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/ar ... gets.b.htm

Go High-Definition, But Do Your Research First
After two painstaking years filled with research and remarkable self-control, my wife and I finally pulled the trigger on a magnificent high-definition plasma television and all of the accoutrements.
(Lakeland, FL Ledger)
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... /611190314

New HDTV comes with a lot of feedback
Last week's column about my two-year search-and-acquisition mission for a high-definition television generated such an avalanche of e-mail.
(Chicago, IL Tribune)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... ?track=rss

It's a high-definition holiday
If you'll be shopping for a new television this holiday season, there are some acronyms that are going to start rolling off your tongue very soon.
(Appleton, WI Post-Crescent)
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.d ... 80644/1029

LCD TVs hold yule tide cheer for electronics sellers, buyers
(San Jose, CA Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stor ... 00^1377553

An HDTV for any income
High Definition Isn't So Exclusive Now
(San Jose, CA Mercury News / Columbus, GA Ledger-Enquirer)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn ... source=rss
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledg ... 057444.htm

The good and the bad about high-definition TV
(Honolulu, HI Star-Bulletin)
http://starbulletin.com/2006/11/20/busi ... ology.html

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