Tag: DIGITAL TV

You can't say nobody warned you. After months and months of ubiquitous announcements (many from the President, himself), and a four-month postponement just to be sure, TV broadcasts will, finally, go exclusively digital today. Fortunately, most U.S. households are prepared. Still, though, according to a Wall Street Journal report, Nielsen estimates that 2.8 million are not. Slightly (but only ...

Just days ago, we heard that the DTV voucher waitlist was completely gone, and now that those have started to flow again, the amount of Americans still unready for the switchover sits at 4.1 million. Compared to right around two months ago, that's definitely a marked improvement from 6.5 million still in the dark, and we fully anticipate that number to continually shrink as we inch closer to ...

Another one (hundred and fifty-eight) bites the dust, as they say. With the newly established June 12th cutover date looming, another 158 TV stations across America have decided that enough is enough. In a new list that was sent over the FCC this week, we're told that another swath of stations intend to shut off their analog signals prior to the mandatory June 12th cutover date. For what it's ...

For all of you still waiting for a little governmental assistance in buying that DTV converter box that you should've purchased months ago (we kid... a little), we've excellent news. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which is overseeing the program, has announced that it has finally begun to ship $40 vouchers towards the purchase of these very boxes once ...

Today is the original deadline for the switch to digital broadcasts, and even though Congress agreed to push the deadline back till June, many stations are making the change anyway since the process was already well underway. We knew that many of the stations would be making the move to DTV on February 17 regardless of the extra time afforded them, but it was unclear which ones would be ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Digital_TV_transition_delay_bill_fails_to_pass_in_House'; In an absolutely shocking move, the United States House of Representatives yesterday failed to pass the digital TV transition delay bill that was all but certain to fly through just days ago. The bill needed two-thirds of the votes of the House under "special rules adopted for the vote," and ...

Consider this your final warning -- time is running out to get your government-funded DTV converter coupon. If you're still getting your TV over the air with a pair of rabbit ears, remember your set will stop working at midnight on February 17, unless you get a digital converter box. And be aware that there is a limited supply of the converter box coupons left from the government. The government ...

Don't let the smooth transition experienced in Wilmington and other tests fool you, FCC member Kelly McDowell just returned from a tour in Afghanistan Alaska, Montana & Oklahoma, and he's seen things, terrible things. Things that have convinced him that the transition on February 17, 2009 "will be messy ... but we will get through it" when over the air broadcasts go all-digital. Hopefully ...

The economy is a funny thing. Thanks to reduced consumer spending due to the current financial crisis (no, you can't even escape it at Switched), coinciding with a boon in manufacturing output, this holiday season could see even more drastic cuts in the price of LCD TVs. Analysts expect prices to be slashed for Black Friday, and think the lower prices will last through next year. They expect ...

Surely, by now, you know that analog TV is going offline very soon (February 17th, 2009), right? Hopefully, you've received your coupon, hooked up your converter, or just gone ahead and used this as a good excuse to join the HDTV era. But, do you have one of those portable TVs that you bring along to the tailgate or switch on whenever the power goes out during big storms? If so, you're not ...

Wilmington, NC had the pleasure of being the nation's first DTV transition test market, and now it has officially become the first market in the nation to flip the kill switch on analog. As of noon ET today, the Wilmington area entered the digital frontier, and initial reports suggest that things are going fairly swimmingly. Granted, "a few" viewers were still "struggling" to see the signal ...