DTV Roadshow Comes to Montgomery To Education Public About “The Big Switch”
April 28, 2008 by admin
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The clock is ticking are you ready for the switch from digital television? As of Thursday afternoon, there are 299 days until analog television goes away and digital television takes over at television stations across the country. The official change over date is February 17, 2009.
To help educate the public, WSFA 12 News and Cohens Electronics teamed up to bring the DTV Roadshow to Montgomery. The event attracted ...
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Is HDTV Compression Damaging Picture Quality?
To deliver more HDTV channels, cable and satellite services are resorting to new compression algorithms. But some viewers fear that quality is suffering as a result.
Do your HDTV programs look as good as they should? If not, you may be seeing the results of overcompression. A growing number of viewers and experts are claiming that increased use of...
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Aspect Ratios Defined
April 28, 2008 by admin
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The staff at Electronic House.com have put together a nice explanation on television aspect ratios that I thought everyone should see.
Aspect ratios just refer to the shape (or format) of the picture. An aspect ratio simply denotes the shape of the screen, in a ratio showing the width to the height. The most popular formats are:
April 26, 2008 | by EH StaffAspect ratios just refer to the shape (or format) of the picture. An aspect ratio simply denotes the shape of the screen, in a ratio showing the width to the height. The most popular formats are:
4:3 - Four units in width to every...
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Analog TV converter boxes have quirks
April 28, 2008 by admin
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NEW YORK -- Did my TV screen just shrink?
That's the question a lot of people will be asking after installing one of the converter boxes that will keep their older TV sets tuned into over-the-air broadcasts after Feb. 17, when most stations will switch from analog to digital transmission. The National Association of Broadcasters estimates that 70 million sets are in danger of losing their picture.
We tested two boxes and found them to produce
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HDTV Laptops to Arrive in China in Time for 2008 Olympic Games
April 24, 2008 by admin
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Intel Joins Legend Silicon to Enable High Definition TV on Laptops via "Free to Air" Terrestrial Television Broadcast
(Press Release) FREMONT, Calif., April 22 -- When the Olympic Games begin
in August this year in Beijing, China, many viewers will be able to watch live High Definition (HD) broadcasts of the games on their laptops, thanks to an initiative between Legend Silicon and Intel. The move is part of the rapid evolution of digital television (DTV) in China, where the new Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting (DTTB) standard supports both fixed HDTV (High Definition TV) sets as well as viewing on mobile devices. Legend Silicon developed the core technology behind China's DTTB standard....
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Low-Power TV Stations Get Boost from Senate Commerce Committee
Deficit Reduction Act Corrected to Provide $65M for LPTVs to Make Switch to Digital
The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday gave a shot in the arm to low-power TV stations.
Without debate, the committee agreed to make a technical correction to the Deficit Reduction Act that will allow the government to give out $65 million to help low-power TV stations and translators make the switch to digital.
The way the bill had been written, low-powers would not get the money until ...
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