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To say there’s a lot riding on next year’s DTV transition would be a gross understatement. If the prospect of making the switch to all-digital broadcasting over the course of one night seemed somehow remote or less daunting in the past, the stakes have become all too clear in recent months. On the one hand, … Read more
With less than 12 months until the historic transition to digital television, some say society is on the verge of another Y2K. They are absolutely right. Just like on Jan. 1, 2000, when everything worked as well as it had the day before, on Feb. 18, 2009, we will all wonder what the fuss was … Read more
It’s less than 11 months until the big switch to digital television broadcasts. By that time, the government hopes most people will have purchased digital TVs, use cable, or have purchased a converter box to But radios are another story… Read full story
Microtune, Inc.sent a letter yesterday to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) identifying a matter of critical importance to the U.S. government and to American consumers in the successful implementation of the U.S. digital television transition. Through internal testing in its Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) lab, Microtune has discovered tuner-related performance failures in … Read more
The Community Broadcasters Association is taking House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich., to task for what it calls false and misleading statements in a PSA intended to educate the public about the DTV transition. In the PSA, Dingell ignores the fact that most low-power, Class A and translator stations will… Read full story