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- FCC says transition to digital TV has been fairly smooth
- FCC says transition to digital TV has been fairly smoothGreat!!!Now when there is an emergency and all power is shut off there will be no way to do wide spread analog information alerts....Good thing I like CB's
- Tags: TVs, Federal government, TV & Home Theater, digital television, FCC, TV
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- FCC says transition to digital TV has been fairly smooth
- If you're reading this, you probably weren't impacted by last week's official transition to digital TV signals, but there was concern that many people would be without their usual programming and raise a big fuss. According to the FCC, any disruption of service was not widespread, though there were over...
- Tags: FCC, Digital Television, Federal Government, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!
- DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!Could you share more details on your Linux experiences?I've been planning to build a Linux based media center but I haven't planned out my plans on dealing with Direct TV. What did you find to be lacking on the Linux media...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVD, DVD Problem, DTV Transition, digital television, CD
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!
- My DVD collection is 3 layers deep and takes up 2 tall ugly fiberboard IKEA book cases. I'd like to get them out of my living room and into a random access, cataloged digital media format. Got any ideas? Over the weekend, I...
- Tags: Movie, Digital Television, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- 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
- Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition
- With all its Media Center experience, you’d think that Microsoft would have sailed through the long-awaited transition to all-digital over-the-air TV broadcasts in the United States this past weekend. Instead, the company failed, in dramatic fashion. I've got details on what went wrong. by Ed Bott
- Tags: Transition, Microsoft Corp., Digital Television, Media Center PCs, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Frugal Friday: DTV Transition, Apple WWDC, Oracle/Sun, Wind River, Zenoss
- Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the Digital TV transition, Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Oracle/Sun/OpenSolaris, Intel's Wind River acquisition, and talk with Mark Hinkle, Community Manager for Zenoss. Click Here to Listen to the Podcast. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- News to know: Palm Pre weekend; iPhone Monday; Bing; DTV conversion; Twitter accounts
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Palm Pre weekend: Sprint could steal Palm's moment Matthew Miller: Initial Pre thoughts and answers...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Television, Twitter, Sam Diaz, E-mail, TVs, H-1B, Embedded Linux, Cloud Computing, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Operating Systems, Software, Linux
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTV
- Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTVYou Forgot an OptionConversion became basis to stop watching broadcast television.At least the voting option ofNothing and I don't care.
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, conversion figure, TV, digital television, HDTV, cable
- Discussion threads 2009-06-07
- Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTV
- As the transition to a 100-percent digital TV landscape officially comes at the end of the week, market research firm Knowledge Networks has crunched some numbers to find out that about a quarter of TV households were impacted by the switch. Despite what seems like the near-ubiquity...
- Tags: HDTV, Digital Television, Cable, Converter Box, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- A USB HD TV tuner debuts for PC and Mac
- AVerMedia today announced the launch of the AVerTVHD Volar Max, a new USB 2.0-based TV tuner that’s PC and Mac compatible. The AVerTVHD Volar Max is a USB TV tuner stick that enables your computer to receive HD digital television ATSC and unencrypted digital cable ClearQAM signals,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Digital Television, USB, AVerTVHD Volar Max, PC Version, TVs, Desktops, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- 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
- 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 delayed until June
- DTV delayed until JunePresident Obama and the Congress ....... got this one wrong! The same people that aren't ready now won't be ready in June. It is their nature that until their hand is forced they will not act.Furthermore, since when is television is a right? Did...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, digital television, TV
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- DTV delayed until June
- DTV conversion delayed until June 12. by Richard Koman
- Tags: White House, Digital Television, Conversion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- 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
- DTV delay bill clears Congress
- Reset those countdown clocks. The deadline for the nation's switch to digital TV has been extended to June 12 - assuming, of course, that President Obama signs legislation that was passed in the Senate last week and today in the House of Representatives. The president has already...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Delay, Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Service Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- 29.8 mln HDTV to sell in 2009, 10% of the plasma screens
- 2009 is expected to be another record-breaking year for HDTV sales with 29.8 mln HD sets expected to ship, out of a total of 34.5 mln digital televisions sold in the U.S. in 2009. This is up from 26.8 mln HD sets sold in 2008. In addition to key sporting...
- Tags: Plasma Screen, HDTV, Digital Television, Sales Strategy, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2009-01-31
- Does the digital TV transition matter to ed tech?
- Does the digital TV transition matter to ed tech?Wrong poll repliesI don't know why people don't get this... you don't need a converter box if you have a newer "digital" tv. You can get your OTA digital signal just fine.Stupid poll replies.Since this does not impact 95% of households since...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, transition matter, TV, digital television
- Discussion threads 2009-01-29
- 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

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