DTV News for 1-23-2007

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 1-23-2007
756 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting


Pols Call For Warning Labels on Analog-Only TV Sets
Some top House Republicans seeking to put new teeth into the digital transition educational effort want to require government warning labels on remaining analog-only TV sets.
(TVWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11431

Bill Introduced To Ensure Education of Consumers [Dale Cripps]
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) alerted the press today that legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to deal with the educational efforts related to the February 18, 2009 "hard date" shut off of analog television signals.
(HDTV Magazine)
http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/20 ... nal_as.php

NAB Statement on Introduction of DTV Consumer Education Act
NAB just learned that legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives today dealing with a number of educational efforts related to the February 18, 2009 "hard date" for turning off analog television.
(National Association of Broadcasters)
http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfm?Sect ... isplay.cfm

Digital Television Consumer Education Act of 2007 [Complete Text of Bill] [Adobe PDF File]
To further inform consumers about the transition to digital television.
(National Association of Broadcasters)
http://www.nab.org/xert/corpcomm/pressr ... du_Act.pdf

Digital converter box program still not finalized
The NTIA, who will administer the program, has still not agreed on many of the fine points.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/di ... -0122/?r=1

FCC's Martin Backs Broadband, Digital TV Transition
Making broadband services more accessible to consumers, supporting the transition of TV broadcasting from analog to digital and getting cable operators to follow through in accepting a standard box-free connection to digital TVs are all on the high-priority list at the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) this year, according to agency chairman Kevin Martin, who recently won Senate confirmation for his second term in that post.
(This Week in Consumer Electronics)
http://www.twice.com/article/CA6409039.html

FCC denies Comcast request to maintain status quo on set-top boxes
The cable operator wanted to continue marketing entry-level set-top boxes that do not have CableCARD slots.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/fc ... 11207/?r=1

State of the Union Gets Sharper Focus
High-definition television programmer HDNet says it will provide live HDTV coverage of President Bush's State of the Union Address, beginning at 8 pm EST on Tuesday night.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News



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