Digital TV Switch
January 26, 2008 by admin
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Did you know that in one year 720,800 homes in Ohio could face a television blackout? Your home could be one of them if you don't have a digital TV and still use an indoor or outdoor antenna.
Spectrum Auction Update: 1,030 Bidders, $3.03B After Three Rounds
Auction Must Raise at Least $10B for Federal Treasury, Programs Including DTV-to-Analog Converter-Box Coupons
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/25/2008
After three rounds of bidding, 1,030 bidders ponied up $3.03 billion for five blocks of beachfront spectrum being reclaimed from analog-TV broadcasters in the switch to digital.
The bidding is anonymous, but a new minimum bid of $1.493 billion was placed on the package of licenses covering 50 states (the so-called C block) that companies like Google are eyeing for a possible new network that could deliver wireless Internet.
I want my DTV
January 26, 2008 by admin
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Digital television is coming - are you ready to tune in?
At midnight Feb. 17, 2009, in a move mandated by the U.S. Congress, full-power television stations will stop broadcasting in analog and broadcast using only a digital signal.
The switch is widely being referred to as the digital TV - or DTV - transition, and several Web sites and TV commercials recently have popped up in an effort to inform...
Read full story by Michael C. Butz at News-Herald.com
Auctioning of U.S. analog TV spectrum begins Thursday
Martin's primary interest in the auction seems to be largely based on what he sees as an opportunity for one or more companies to build wireless data networks that could compete with incumbent cable and DSL ...
Digital TV (DTV) One Year Away
January 24, 2008 by admin
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If you are still climbing a ladder to adjust your rooftop TV antennae or leaving the couch to reposition those "rabbit ears," your TV will go dark in another year.
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To stay tuned with your current equipment, you'll have to get a digital converter to dumb-down the signal for your low-tech TV...
