In Großbritannien sollen hochauflösende Fernsehprogramme (HDTV) pünktlich zur Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft auch über die DVB-T-Plattform "Freeview" zu empfangen sein....

OPEN LETTER Bamberg, February 12, 2009 To the President of the United States of America To the Citizens of the United States of America To the Members of the House of Representatives To the Members of the Senate Warning Against Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital Broadcast Televisio...

Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

Rejoice! If you are one of the two million still waiting for your Digital TV upgrade coupon, the government has put more money into it. Now you have plenty of time before the shutdown [AP]...

WNBC will be launching its new digital channel New York Nonstop this coming Monday, March 9th at 5AM. Coverage on the new channel will be mixed with hard local news and lifestyle stories and will be presented in a "pod format" in fifteen minute increments. It will also feature a 7PM newscast with an...

I cut the cord last night. I told Cox (our cable company) where they could shove their horrific customer service. I came home from work yesterday to find my cable was out. Not only that, but my DVR was empty which means the cable had been out all day. So I called the cable company to see if I could ...

Filed under: Industry, OTA A day into what could have been the all digital broadcasting future, it's hard to tell how the switch is going over. So far the National Association of Broadcasters came out with a statement indicating "encouraging" results, with only a few hundred calls logged in several ...

My friend Wolfgang Allen sent me an interesting email this morning: Have you noticed that "set top box" is a doubly obsolete phrase? Whenever people in the media speak of the digital t.v. converters (that will soon prevent millions of old people from ever watching t.v. again) they call them "set top...

Now that President Obama has signed the bill delaying the digital TV transition until June 12, everybody is sitting back, once again waiting to get their old analog beaters into working shape. But if that's you, you still have to worry. Many stations are saying screw it and going ahead and shutting ...

Filed under: Industry, Regulatory, Tuners, ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, OTA No way Obama was going to veto this after driving it all the way through Congress, but technically, the digital TV delay wasn't actually official until now. Late today, America's President signed his name onto the bill which will del...