Rabbit-Ear Users Donât Know the End (of Analog TV) Is Near
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Half the people in a recent survey donât know that analog over-the-air television will be cut off in 2009.
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As you may recall from my last entry, I exchanged my cable box from a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD.  The latter, new box continues to output a signal from the cable connection even if I have it in HDTV mode.  It probably also continues to output AVI and S-Video.  This finally opened up a way for me to use my cable box with a MythTV box.   Thanks to a serious (and mysterious) spinal injury (I say mysterious because I haven't figured out how I did the damage), I can only work on the project for a half hour at a time, at most.  I have discovered some interesting things in those short segments.
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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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Turn on, tune in, turn off again 3GSM It's not just the slow uptake of video services that should worry network operators, it seems that more than half of European users who've tried TV on the move decided it wasn't worth the effort.â¦
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Americans are becoming more aware of next year's switch-over to digital TV, but many are still confused about how they will be affected, according to a pair of surveys released on Wednesday.
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As recently as 1 B.C. (that's Before Cable), snow was the bane of our TV screens. Devices of all types were utilized -- from coat hangers to rooftop antennas -- to help us get a clear picture. Remember your dad saying, "That's it. Stand there and hold the rabbit ears. The picture's perfect." Of course, you had become part of ...
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By Chris Flores, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Dec. 16--Consumers buying flat-panel high-definition televisions are facing a curious little feature that they aren't quite sure about.
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A year from Sunday,  television for many Americans will cut to black. Analog signals  will stop transmitting, older sets will become useless and  millions of TV-watching households will simply disappear.
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By TOBY STERLING  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Netherlands ended transmission of "free to air" analog television Monday, becoming the first nation to switch completely to digital signals.  Few Dutch consumers noticed, because the overwhelming majority get TV via cable.
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Minimising interference Existing digital television services could be affected by the national switchover to all-digital television, Ofcom has warned.â¦
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Lawmakers believe the analog TV spectrum can be put to much better use and can generate billions in auctions to telecom companies. So Congress is considering paying Americans to ditch over-the-air analog TV and switch to digital. Michael Grebb reports from Washington.
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Answers to common questions about digital television:
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Don't get too attached to your widescreen TV -- it'll soon be obsolete.
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Broadband will be as widely available as analogue TV by the middle of next year, according to BT. BT has struggled to extend the reach of broadband to certain areas of the country because until now 512Kbps ADSL connections would not work ...
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The first converter boxes to help consumers cope when over-the-air TV signals switch from analog to digital broadcasting will debut next week at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
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The retailer becomes the first to pull the plug on analog TVs.
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I'm sorry to see that my blog entry on recent controversies over freedom turned into a thread about TiVo. But since TiVo seems to be such a hot button, I would like to address that issue directly. I made the point in the discussion that TiVo did not license its hardware under the GPL (duh, GPL is a software license, after all), or even a GPL-like license.  So all the fuss about what rights you have with respect to TiVo hardware is nonsense.  Sure, you have the right to modify the hardware because you bought it.  But you will void your warranty, and TiVo is under no obligation to provide you with the schematic, BIOS, or anything else to make it easy to modify the hardware.  Having said that, let's cut through all the posturing about what rights we have, and get to the real issue here, which is what motivated TiVo to use a digital signature, and what would motivate people to modify the TiVo software and run the modified version on a TiVo box.