TV beamed at Cuba caught in jam
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Chicago Tribune - For 12 years, Antonio Dieguez has diligently gone to work as director of TV Marti, the U.S. government-financed station aimed at bringing news and information to the Cuban people.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro,   looking well along the road to recovery, was shown on   television on Friday meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo   Chavez after temporarily ceding power a month ago to undergo   intestinal surgery.
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There might be stronger words to describe the horror, but television stations are afraid to air programs that use them. A lot of places, including Tampa, didn&#39;t get to see ``Saving Private Ryan&#39;&#39; on Thursday night.
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Even after the addition of a new $10 million system, many Cubans said they still see only snowy interference where the anti-Castro television broadcasts should be.
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By Stephanie Hoo, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 8--Picture this: A palm-sized video camera that you don't have to be a genius to operate. Or, a gizmo that slings your TV signal to any computer, anywhere.
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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Venezuela's opposition-aligned RCTV has started cable broadcasts  after losing its terrestrial licence.
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Venezuelan troops have seized the anti-government television channel's broadcast equipment, the station said on Sunday, ahead of a controversial midnight EDT/0400 GMT takeover by President Hugo Chavez that will take the broadcaster off the air.
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By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe  Feb. 25--Rooftop antennas are back in vogue.   Many homeowners are trading up to expensive television sets and hooking  them up to old-fashioned antennas that can pull in the digital and  high-definition signals of local broadcasters for free.
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Cuban press authorities have told the Havana correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, the BBC and a major Mexican newspaper that they can no longer report from the island.
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For the first time in four months, Cuban leader Fidel Castro was shown standing and talking in video footage that aired on state-run Cuban TV.
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This Day in Tech: President Kennedy is scheduled to be the first image beamed across the Atlantic but he's late, so Europe gets part of a Cubs-Phillies game instead.
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(InfoWorld) - A group of technology vendors has submitted new test results for a wireless device intended to operate in unused portions of the television spectrum afterÂ an identical device malfunctioned in U.S. Federal Communications Commission tests earlier this year. The new tests showed the wireless device correctly detected TV signals and stayed out of that part of the spectrum 100 percent of the time, according to a filing on behalf of Microsoft and Philips Electronics. Microsoft and Philips are part of the White Spaces Coalition, a group of tech vendors asking the FCC to allow wireless devices to operate in the so-called white spaces of the television spectrum. The coalition wants the white spaces opened up to give consumers more wireless broadband options. Television broadcasters have opposed the White Spaces Coalition, saying it's too likely that wireless devices will interfere with TV signals. On July 31, the FCC declined to license a wireless device built by the coalition, saying it interfered with TV signals. Microsoft later said the device was damaged and "operated at a severely degraded level." On Thursday, Microsoft and Philips submitted new tests to the FCC. In their new tests, the wireless device detected signals that are "far too weak for a television set to produce a broadcast television picture," wrote Ed Thomas, a tech advisor to the White Spaces Coalition and a former chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. The FCC will likely do its own retest of the device. The White Spaces Coalition hopes the FCC can make a decision to approve the device by the end of the year, Thomas said. The group had originally hoped the FCC would make a decision by October, and members believe the FCC can still make a decision soon, he said. "We'd love to see the FCC do whatever they need to do to corroborate our data," Thomas said. "We hope we've moved the ball a long way to help them make a decision." This month,Â the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Association for Maximum Service Television launched a campaign urging the FCC to reject white spaces devices. The wireless devices could cause "devastating interference" to digital TV sets, the two groups said. "While our friends at Intel, Google, and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches, and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not," Alan Frank, NAB's chairman, said in a news release this month.
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Conditions in developing nations could hamper the spread of digital TV, a broadcast conference is told.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro tripped and  fractured his left knee and right arm in a tumble captured on  live television, the government said on Thursday.
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Cuba HAVANA -- Cuban press authorities have told the Havana correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, the BBC, and a major Mexican newspaper that they can no longer report from the island. The Chicago Tribune said correspondent Gary Marx, based in the country since 2002, was told Wednesday that his stories were too negative. His press credentials were not renewed during ...
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Owners of thousands of small television stations that reach rural populations or specialize in community affairs and minority programming are worried the digital transition is going to leave their audiences watching a blank screen.