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DTV Transition One Week Away
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 05, 2009
The DTV transition is now just one week away, scheduled for June 12, 2009. On that date, more than half of the nation's television broadcasters will make the final switch to digital signals, shutting off analog forever. The other half have already made the transition over the past several months.
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DTV Transition Revives Old Telly
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 13, 2008
In Britain, a nation that cherishes its eccentrics as much as its bitter ales, a furniture restorer has converted a 1957-vintage black & white TV to receive digital over-the-air signals. It is believed to be the oldest TV to survive the U.K. DTV transition.
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DTV Weak? Try Double Rescan
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 18, 2009
Has your television reception survived the DTV transition not quite fully intact? Here are a few tips from the Federal Communications Commission, including one we haven't heard before.
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DTV/DVD Sales Continue to Gain
 |  Jul 22, 2001

June was the third consecutive month of increases in sales of digital video products, according to figures released July 18 by the <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A>.

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DTV: Powell, CEA Press Cable Industry
Barry Willis  |  Jun 24, 2001

The cable industry continues to be the major obstacle to expanding the market for digital television (DTV). That's the view of the <A HREF="http://www.ce.org/">Consumer Electronics Association</A>, which in June asked the <A HREF="http://www.fcc.gov">Federal Communications Commission</A> to consider instituting what it termed "a capacity-based dual or multicast cable carriage rule" to encourage the growth of the format.

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Dual Channel PVRs Announced
 |  Jun 17, 2001

When the hard-disk&ndash;based personal video recorder (PVR) products like TiVo and ReplayTV hit the shelves last year, they brought a new flexibility to time-shifting television programming. But the first products still had shortcomings: What could you do if you wanted to time-shift two programs from two different channels simultaneously? Buy two machines?

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DualDisc Gets Heady Multichannel Treatment
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Dec 26, 2004  |  First Published: Dec 27, 2004
Although the new DualDisc format - a two-sided hybrid disc with a CD on one side and a DVD-A on the other - has had a rough beginning, a recent announcement from Dolby and 5.1 Entertainment's Silverline Records label brings to light another benefit of the flipping disc.
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DualDiscs Do-All Discs Finally Arrive
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Nov 01, 2004
Test marketed earlier this year, DualDisc is now officially here with the October 26th release of two albums from Warner Music Group (WMG). (Two more WMG DualDisc albums are scheduled to arrive in stores on November 23rd.)
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DualView for Extreme Gaming
SV Staff  |  Jan 07, 2008
As an extension of the 3D capabilities Texas Instruments displayed at the 2007 CEDIA Expo, TI demonstrated an incredibly exciting new possibility, which might end up making DLP the hard-core gamer’s best technological friend. Traditionally,...
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DuPont meet Dainippon, Dainippon meet DuPont
SV Staff  |  May 09, 2008
Not really known for being a big player in the consumer electronics world, DuPont just entered into a strategic partnership with Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The goal is to create a more affordable manufacturing process for printed...
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Dust Off those Rabbit Ears!
SV Staff  |  May 12, 2008
Know any retrogrouch Luddites that have resisted the temptations of cable TV, to say nothing of the latest in satellite TV? Here's your chance to bring them up to date, and win some cool schwag for yourself too. The Consumer Electronics Association...
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DVD Animation Bonanza!
Thomas J. Norton  |  Aug 19, 2001

<I><B>Princess Mononoke</B></I> <I>Voices of Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith, Billy Bob Thornton. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 (anamorphic). Dolby Digital 5.1 (English, French). 134 minutes. 1999. Miramax/Buena Vista Home Entertainment 19300. PG-13. $32.99.</I>

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DVD Bucks Video Trend
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 28, 2001

According to the latest figures released by the <A HREF="http://www.dvdinformation.com">DVD Entertainment Group</A>, DVD hardware and software sales continued their rapid growth in the third quarter and are anticipated to accelerate through the holiday selling season.

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DVD Burners Get Hot
Barry Willis  |  Nov 10, 2002

Is the movie industry on the verge of losing control of its own products?

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DVD Clearly Hot Format
 |  Jul 29, 2001

According to figures recently compiled by the <A HREF="http://www.dvdinformation.com">DVD Entertainment Group</A>, DVD hardware and software sales continued on a strong upward curve in the first six months of 2001. In the first half of the year, the DEG reports, more than 5 million DVD players were shipped to retailers (not all have sold through to consumers), bringing the total units shipped since the format's launch to 20.4 million. Just over 3 million players had been shipped by the same time last year.

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