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DTV Sales Figures for 1998
 |  Mar 07, 1999

Based on DTV-sales data released by the <A HREF="http://www.cema.org">Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association</A>, <A HREF="http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com">Mitsubishi</A> is the market-share leader in digital televisions sold in the US for 1998. According to its own figures, Mitsubishi sold 9639 units, which constitutes 73.2% of all units reported by CEMA to have been sold last year.

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DTV Sales Still Hopping
 |  Apr 02, 2000

The <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> announced last week that factory-to-dealer sales of digital television (DTV) display devices reached their second-highest total ever this February, surpassing 22,000 units. The CEA claims that February's sales total of 22,844 units is second only to the December 1999 figures, and brings total sales since the introduction of DTV (in August 1998) to 178,254 units.

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DTV Sales Surge
 |  Dec 29, 2003

Digital television is gathering serious momentum. A strong November for electronics retailers pushed the 2002 total over two million units.

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DTV Sales Up 36%in January
 |  Apr 20, 2003

The <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA) believes that digital television sales will go off the chart this year.

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DTV Sizzles In July
 |  Sep 17, 2001

The <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA) is reporting that manufacturer-to-dealer sales of digital television (DTV) monitors and sets (monitors with integrated tuners) totaled 117,851 units with $222 million in revenue during July. The CEA adds that these unit sales figures represent a 165% increase over the same period in 2000.

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DTV Stations Move Around
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 05, 2007
UHF will not be the exclusive home of DTV channels following the transition from analog broadcasting. Some will remain on VHF, contrary to what's been widely reported.
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DTV Stations: We Want to Move
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 25, 2009
Four DTV stations have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for a change of frequency, from VHF to UHF.
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DTV STB Coupon Deadline Nears
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 30, 2009
Most of our readers probably don't care, but just in case you know someone with an analog TV that still hasn't got a source of digital signals, tomorrow is a big day. It's the last day when the federal government will be handing out $40 subsidy coupons to offset the cost of a set-top box that would keep an old analog TV running.
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DTV Summit Concludes
 |  Mar 07, 1999

Four major industries banded together last week to focus on the business issues necessary to bring digital TV to the American consumer. More than 300 people attended the fourth DTV Summit, which was sponsored by the <A HREF="http://www.cema.org">Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association</A> (CEMA) in conjunction with the <A HREF="http://www.mstv.org/">Association for Maximum Service Television</A> (MSTV), the <A HREF="http://www.nab.org">National Association of Broadcasters</A> (NAB), the <A HREF="http://www.ncta.com/">National Cable Television Association</A> (NCTA), and the <A HREF="http://www.sbca.com/">Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association</A> (SBCA). The one-day summit featured leaders from the consumer-electronics, broadcast, cable, satellite, and retail industries discussing their latest plans and strategies for the DTV transition.

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DTV Transition Brings Peculiar Responses
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 22, 2009
The DTV transition has prompted some, ah, um, interesting responses.
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DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 11, 2009
Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter?
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DTV Transition Is a Year Old
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 17, 2010
It's now been a year since the DTV transition hit its (more or less) final deadline of June 12, 2009. That was the end of analog broadcasting and the start of a bright shiny new age of digital television. Now the researchers are abuzz with intel, most of it predictable.
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DTV Transition is well . . Transitioning
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
February 17th has come and gone. Some stations switched, and guess what? People have survived just fine. The FCC set up call centers ( 1-888-CALL-FCC) that were equipped to handle 100,000 calls per day to help people with the switch to digital...
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DTV Transition Leads to Stand-Off Between Police and drunken 70 Year-Old
SV Staff  |  Feb 20, 2009
Plenty of jokes have been made about what old people were going to do once the DTV transition messed with their normal TV-watching, but things got serious on Wednesday when a 70 year-old Missouri man shot up his own TV and got into a small...
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DTV Transition May Be Delayed
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 13, 2009
Acting in response to consumer-group complaints, the Obama transition team has asked the Federal Communications to delay the DTV transition.
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