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DTV Day, Sort Of . . .
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2009
The hot mess that was the transition to digital TV was supposed to happen today. At midnight. Some stations went ahead and pulled the plug - it was their option, and for many stations, it was too expensive to keep both analog and digital...
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DTV Delay Alternatives
SV Staff  |  Jan 14, 2009
We reported last week about President-elect Barack Obama's desire to postpone the DTV transition, mainly because the poor and elderly weren't prepared. Now, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is suggesting alternatives to keep the...
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DTV Delay Bill Not Dead Yet
SV Staff  |  Jan 29, 2009
In the rollercoaster ride that is American politics, the bill proposing a delay to the digital transition, yet one more time, just days after the House shot down the latest proposal. Goodness, will someone just put this to bed already?House...
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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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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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DVDPlay Brings Blu-ray to Kiosks
SV Staff  |  May 30, 2008
What's your grocery list look like? Milk, butter-pecan ice cream, bread, butter, blueberries, Blu-ray.  Blu-ray??? Starting in June, DVDPlay is going to be offering Blu-ray discs right along side standard DVD in their standalone rental kiosks....
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DVR ‘Power Save’ Modes Waste $1.8 Billion Annually
SV Staff  |  Aug 23, 2018
The headline of a recent blog from Sense was provocative and to the point: “Cable DVRs Promote Fake Power Saving Mode.”
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