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Analog TV signals are starting to dim. Have you been affected?

Analog TV signals are starting to dim. Have you been affected?Surprisingly....From the Providence Journal (The ProJo as we call it and the BloJo as it's referred to by The Providence Phoenix):[i]Providence will be the largest TV market in the country where nearly all the stations make the switch on the...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Analog TV signal, Analog TV

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

The digital television transition has begun. And it has little to do with Feb. 17, 2009. Yah, that’s the date that all local TV broadcasters have to be sending out all their signals in digital form. And there are going to be a handful of clueless TV...

Tags: Advertisement, Digital Television, Digital Television Transition, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-15

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IOGear Wireless Audio/Video Kit

It's no secret we're inching ever closer toward ditching our cable or satellite television services in favor of Internet-only content consumption. With services such as Hulu and YouTube, the computer has become the video entertainment hub of the home. Getting that computer's desktop screen onto your television seems like...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, PRODUCTIVITY, Corporate communications, TV, IOGEAR, computer, video, USB, adapter

Product reviews 2009-06-29

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transitionHas the ATSC glitch affected you?If you?re a Media Center user, has this issue affected you? Leave a comment as a reply here. (If you have another coment to make, please start a new thread) I?ll be following up with Microsoft to see if I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, digital television, digital TV transition, TV, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer Experience

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer ExperiencePhone as a uniform data device NOT mobile providers' preferenceMobile phone companies prefer NOT to be treated as just a data ISP. Instead they have traditionally maintained false fragmentations, such as separate voice, SMS and lately data streams, when all can be...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Wireless Customer Experience, phone, wireless, carrier, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

We're ready for digital TV, Mr. President. No more delays, please.

A new poll, conducted by the National Association of Broadcasters, found that 82 percent of Americans who receive over-the-air broadcast signals have already taken steps to prepare themselves for the switch to digital television. But that's not the big number that caught my eye in the NAB's press release. ...

Tags: Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-05

DTV delay bill clears Congress

DTV delay bill clears CongressWorst is yet to come.The worst part about this is what it will mean to all the people who have held off from converting. Now they know the fed isn't serious and they will continue to wait and expect the date to be pushed back again...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, digital television, TV, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-02-04

Does the digital TV transition matter to ed tech?

So the House failed to delay the transition date for Digital television here in the States. February 17th is it. For sure. No delays or second chances. As I walk around most of our schools, I see a heck of a lot of TVs that are certainly...

Tags: Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Cable Might Try To Kill TV. It Would Not Be Suicide.

Cable operators have a love-hate relationship with TV. Giving Americans scores of TV channels,where they once had just three or four, built them into the telecommunications giants that they are today. But now, the TV business is the least profitable of the three legs they stand on....

Tags: Cable, CMCSA, VZ, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration

As much as many of us would like to continue to revel in the day, the inauguration with all of its rock-concert fanfare, pomp and circumstance is over, and it is finally time for the new administration to get to work. The 44th President of the...

Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Administration, Broadband, Digital Television, TVs, Workforce Management, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-21

0.6% decrease in consumer electronics sales in 2009

Consumer Electronics Association is forecasting a drop in full-year factory sales to dealers for the first time in recent history, a 0.6% decrease to $170.9 bln for 2009. Digital TV continues to be the largest industry category, representing 15% of total industry shipment dollars. As the transition to digital television...

Tags: AM, Consumer Electronics, Digital Television, Game, Gaming Software Revenue, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Revenue, Sales, Sales Strategy, Tv & Home Theater, TVs

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has Overlooked

Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has OverlookedThe problem is the subscriptionI think this only gets the problem half correct. I do not really mind the idea of buying a television; I could save money for a couple of months and buy a decent one for a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, cable television, digital television, TV, cable, NetFlix Inc., Hulu

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has Overlooked

Let’s say you’re the owner of one of the 20 million or so television households still taking in over-the-air signals on at least one set to get NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and independent TV stations, for local broadcasts. Conventional wisdom has it that...

Tags: Cable Television, Digital Television, Cable, Computer, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Who will lead Obama-era FCC?

Monday morning may continue the speculation that Hillary Clinton will be named Secretary of State, but in more technical climes the wagers are on what will happen with the Federal Communications Commission. Ars Technica talked to telecom attorney Andrew Lipman, who expects Obama to move fast. Why? The issues the...

Tags: FCC, Job, Broadband, Federal Government, Telecommunications, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Hitachi UT37X902

When Hitachi first announced the U.S. availability of its superslim monitors at CES last January, they were the slimmest flat-panel LCDs yet at 1.5 inches thick. That's still the case as far as we know. Sure, the panel of Sony's OLED-based XEL-1 is, as usual, an exception at 0.11 inch...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Storage, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Hitachi UT37X902, Hitachi Ltd., monitor, tuner

Product reviews 2008-11-14

Are you being gouged on your cable bill?

Probably, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal detailing how cable customers are paying the same amount for fewer channels. The FCC has sent letters of inquiry to 11 cable companies asking why their customers are paying the same amount each month, even as the...

Tags: Tier, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-10

41% of US consumers think all TVs need a digital converter

Consumer Reports found that about 17% of Americans living in television households have at least one television set that will be affected by the digital transition, and 13% rely exclusively on over-the-air signals OTA. Unless they take some action before February, nearly 19 mln Americans will be in households without...

Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM

Blog posts 2008-10-16

Watch Out: Digital TV Transition Starts ... Now

You thought you or your Mom didn’t have to worry about whether your household was prepared for the transition to digital TV broadcasting until February of next year. Wrong. If, for instance, that household is in Austin, Green Bay, Indianapolis and eight other markets where LIN TV...

Tags: Signal, Cable Company, Digital Television, Broadcaster, LIN TV, Cable, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Herethese things are nice, but-if ISPs start removing the 'unlimited' feature of unlimited accounts, the entire idea will be for naught. Few will watch internet television when it could affect their surfing habits later that month or week when they bump into the limitations...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), TVs, TV & Home Theater, Digital TV Transition, Look Now, digital television

Discussion threads 2008-06-15

Best Buy will take it back. For free. In some places.

Electronics and technology retailer Best Buy is experimenting with a free consumer electronics take-back program at 117 stores in San Francisco, Minneapolis and Baltimore/Washington, D.C. Apparently, the company was prompted by a lobbying group called As You Sow, which encouraged it to adopt the program. (As You Sow actually pretty...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-08