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House lawmakers don’t want the cost of a television coupon program to catch them by surprise — or without enough money to ensure millions of Americans can still watch TV after their analog sets flicker out of … Read full story
The Senate Commerce Committee rescheduled its digital-TV-transition oversight hearing for April 8. The hearing was initially scheduled for Feb. 14, in advance of the one-year countdown to the Feb. 17, 2009, switch to digital, but… Read full story by John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable
The first coupon-eligible converter boxes hit stores in February, and word of the transition seems to have gotten out to the public. But as some in Congress are starting to realize, viewers who receive DTV education still might not receive the DTV signals. Read full story by Sanjay Talwani at TV Technology .com
f you get your TV signals over-the-air, with an antenna, listen up. The converters you’ll need to keep your set from turning into a doorstop this time next year are finally on retailers’ shelves: there are good reasons to buy one now, rather than waiting for the fall stampede. The best reason is to make … Read more
Q My Samsung DLP TV is supposed to be 3D-capable, but I can’t find any DVDs that are in 3D. Is there any 3D content out there, and how can I get it? A Most of Samsung’s latest DLPHDTVs (and a few of the company’s plasmas) are “3D-capable”—albeit with the use of special 3D goggles. … Read more