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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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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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