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If you haven’t heard the term ‘converter box’ yet, don’t worry– you will. With the clock slowly ticking down to the mandated analog-to-digital conversion date of February 17, 2009, ‘converter boxes’ will be featured on television ads, newspaper circulars and front-and-center in electronics stores. So– what are they? Digital converter boxes take a digital television … Read more
TV broadcasters alert Americans all broadcast to be digital in 2009 An extraordinary effort kicked off yesterday to alert all Americans – but senior citizens in particular – that this country will transition all television broadcasting to digital on February 17, 2009. Those who rely on a broadcast signal will no longer be able to … Read more
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) have asked the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) to allow consumers to reapply for DTV-to-analog coupons if they fail to redeem them before the 90-day expiration date. NTIA is handing out up to two coupons per household, each worth $40 toward the boxes, which will allow … Read more
Washington – Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin “has proposed a new and unprecedented must carry mandate for low power television stations, injecting new uncertainty and potential litigation at a critical time in the DTV transition,” National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Kyle McSlarrow plans to tell a House subcommittee on Wednesday. McSlarrow was reacting … Read more
Market research firm Centris has issued a study showing what it calls “serious gaps” in digital TV signal coverage across the country, which could interfere with the successful completion of the digital television transition on Feb. 17, 2009. The Centris study examined several large TV markets and exercised models of coverage to determine how many … Read more